LAST week’s dramatic developments in Afghanistan that stunned the world raise a host of critical questions about the future. What can be expected under a Taliban government? How is the
THE images of thousands of people desperate to leave the country flooding the Kabul airport and some of them clinging to the wings of a moving US air force plane are reminiscent of the
At least three people were killed in anti-Taliban protests in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, witnesses said, as the militant group tried to set up a government and
On the eve of the darkest day for Afghanistan in two decades, I cried. I still can’t stop crying. The sobs don’t subside, and my shaky breaths are in vain.
AS confusion clouds the future of Afghanistan with the Taliban on the rampage across the hapless country, and the government in Kabul unable to put up a solid defence, neighbouring
Kabul: Nearly 2,400 Afghan civilians were killed or injured in May and June as fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan security forces escalated, the highest number for those two months since records started in 2009, the United Nations
EVEN though the Taliban continue their rapid military advance in Afghanistan, the window has not yet closed for diplomatic efforts to promote a negotiated settlement between the warring parties. Two
KABUL: More than 1,280 Afghan civilians have been killed in the first six months of the year as fighting rages in Afghanistan despite a pact between the United States and Taliban
Over two months into the much hyped peace deal between the US and Taliban, violence in Afghanistan shows no signs of abating. On May 12, a maternity ward in Kabul
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the Iranian consulate in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat on May 11 over the deaths of migrants who drowned after allegedly being forced into a
