Tag Archives: Afghanistan

The Banff Mountain film festival opens the door to the inspiring stories of people who simultaneously confront their physical and mental limits and the elements. And with this year’s festival featuring films on a lawyer running ultra marathons to help women in Afghanistan, a mountain-biking family living with disability, and …

 The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education in Afghanistan has ordered private universities not to allow female students to sit for university entrance exams next month, placing more strongholds on its anti-women education stand.   According to a Saturday, January 28 report by Reuters, a letter from the ministry was addressed …

The Iranian regime has used Prince Harry’s confession that he killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistan against the British government amid the escalating row over the execution of Alireza Akbari.   In a string of tweets criticizing Britain’s outrage over the killing of the British-Iranian dual national who was accused of spying, Iran claimed …

Opinion by Chloe Bryer – Azza Karam – Ruth Messinger – Negina Yari (new york) Thursday, January 12, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jan 12 (IPS) – Can you imagine what it would be like if women were simply not allowed to step outside of their homes, let alone to …

The Taliban on Friday, Jan. 6, called for Prince Harry to face trial for war crimes after he bragged about killing 25 troops in Afghanistan.   The fundamentalist group’s interior minister, Anas Haqqani, said on Twitter that sections of Harry’s memoir, “Spare,” were akin to him confessing to “war crimes.”   “Mr. …

CNN  —  Three foreign aid groups said Sunday that they were moving to temporarily suspend their operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban barred female employees of non-governmental organizations from coming to work. “We cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without our female staff,” aid …

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run education ministry has suspended university education for female students until further notice.   A letter published Tuesday, Dec. 20, by the higher education ministry instructed Afghan public and private universities to suspend access to female students immediately, in accordance with a Cabinet decision.   This comes after girls …

CNN  —  The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the latest step in its brutal clampdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women. A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education confirmed the suspension to CNN on Tuesday. A letter published by …

Opinion by Saber Azam (geneva) Wednesday, September 07, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) – Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan,” signed on 29 February 2020, is deemed by many as the submission of a superpower to a group that …

A year ago today, 13 American service members were murdered by a suicide bomber at Kabul Airport during the final days of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. No doubt the Biden administration has been struggling to handle the one-year anniversary appropriately. The President released a statement that in no way marks …