EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Didn’t Appear To Discuss Watchdog Report Warning Afghan Air Force Would Collapse After US Exit Micaela Burrow on March 19, 2024 Department of Defense (DOD) officials did not…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has reached a compromise deal with Republicans in House of Representatives to lift the number of resettlement visas for Afghans who worked…
By Arshad Mohammed and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Monday it put sanctions on two former Afghan officials and 44 related entities for a corruption…
(Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shi’ite mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, according to the Sunni militant group’s Telegram channel. A suicide bombing ripped…
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s disaster management ministry on Friday revised downward the death toll from multiple earthquakes to around 1,000 from an earlier figure of over…
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. rights chief accused Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Tuesday of a “shocking level of oppression” of women and girls and said human rights in the country…
Biden Releases Statement On The Two-Year Anniversary Of Afghan Evacuation Attack Arjun Singh on August 26, 2023 President Joe Biden released a statement on the two-year anniversary of a terrorist…
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-funded assessment of Afghanistan’s central bank found that it lacks independence from the Taliban administration and adequate safeguards against money laundering and terrorism…
Military Orgs Come Out Against Act Offering ‘Blanket’ Residency Status For Afghan Evacuees Micaela Burrow on July 25, 2023 Fourteen military and veterans organizations urged Congress in a letter Monday…
By Jonathan Landay and Charlotte Greenfield WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A U.S.-funded audit of Afghanistan’s Taliban-run central bank has failed to win Washington’s backing for a return of bank assets from…
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s most decorated war veteran, found by a civil court to have played a part in the murder of four Afghans while serving in Afghanistan, said he was…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers lost a defamation lawsuit against three newspapers that accused him of involvement in the murder of six Afghans while…
By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – China and Pakistan on Monday urged donors to bridge gaps in humanitarian funding for Afghanistan, saying aid should be delinked from “political considerations”.…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Friday it will continue to keep Afghan staff working from home after the Taliban administration began enforcing a…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned on Thursday a Taliban administration ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and called…
By Charlotte Greenfield (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s economy will contract, inflation will rise and liquidity will fall if there is a 30% drop in international aid as feared, according to an…
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Defence has received the largest share of funds in Afghanistan’s budget as the Taliban government aims to boost forces by a third and…
By Michelle Nichols and Charlotte Greenfield UNITED NATIONS/KABUL (Reuters) -U.N. chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Wednesday a ban by Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Afghan women working for the United Nations,…
By Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday gave the State Department until Monday to…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a request by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks not to enforce his decision…
By Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In a chilly classroom in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, teenage girls…
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Eight Afghan journalists who worked for the BBC broadcaster won a legal challenge on Monday against Britain’s refusal to relocate them from Afghanistan, which they…
Former Afghan Ambassador To Attend State Of The Union Address, Discuss ‘Dire’ Effects Of Biden’s Withdrawal Mary Lou Masters on February 3, 2023 Roya Rahmani, former Afghanistan Ambassador to the…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Under pressure from Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, the United Nations is delivering some food aid using men only, prompting warnings from donors and humanitarian…
KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to…