Tag Archives: Afghanistan

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 …

The deaths occurred across 10 provinces over the past 10 days, authorities said, as the country reels from an economic and humanitarian crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions imposed after the Taliban returned to power last year. The extreme weather also comes as neighboring Pakistan experiences relentless flooding. The Disaster Management …

The anniversary comes weeks after a landmark period for women’s football: the European Championships attracted record-breaking crowds in England just weeks ago, potentially inspiring a generation of girls and boys to take up the sport. Yet in Afghanistan, where Nadim was born and raised until the age of 11, the …

“I told myself that I should travel to Kabul and buy additional equipment, including a fridge, before I expanded my bakery business. This dream never came true as my country fell into the hands of the Taliban. I used to run a business in my province. I employed five women …

Can the Taliban fix Afghanistan’s economic crisis?

London CNN  —  When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage, sexual assault and femicide. Last August, as the Taliban stormed Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, they shuttered …

I, along with many veterans and Americans, celebrated the death of al-Qaeda leader and 9/11 plotter Ayman al-Zawahiri this week. I can remember the moment I saw the Twin Towers get hit on 9/11. My young adult life was very much built around my military service in and around Afghanistan, …