- 28 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityTaliban
Malala pleads with world to protect Afghan girls’ education
By Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan as she left school in 2012, pleaded with…
U.S. condemns Taliban’s reported plan to reinstate executions, amputations
(Reuters) - U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Friday that Washington condemns in the strongest terms reported comments by a Taliban official who said the group would restore…
U.S. grants licenses for more aid flow to Afghanistan despite sanctions
By Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States on Friday further paved the way for aid to flow to Afghanistan despite U.S. sanctions on the Taliban, who seized control…
Hundreds protest in Kabul to demand release of Afghan foreign reserves
(Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested in Kabul on Friday, demanding that the United States release billions of dollars in central bank reserves blocked outside Afghanistan as the new Taliban…
Afghan Taliban defence minister orders crackdown on abuses
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -The Taliban's new defence minister has issued a rebuke over misconduct by some commanders and fighters following the movement's victory over the Western-backed government in Afghanistan last…
Islamic State uses Taliban’s own tactics to attack Afghanistan’s new rulers
By Alasdair Pal and Jibran Ahmed (Reuters) - A little more than a month after toppling the Western-backed government in Kabul, Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers are facing internal enemies who…
WHO urges international donors to resume Afghanistan health funding
(Reuters) - The World Health Organisation's representative to Afghanistan called on the international community on Thursday to resume funding of the war-torn country's health program which was suspended when the…
Exclusive-Echoes, uncertainty as Afghan pilots await U.S. help in Tajikistan
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-trained Afghan pilot was talking to Reuters on a smuggled cellphone from Tajikistan, where he is being held, when something strange happened -…
Sunni scholars who left Afghanistan hope Islam’s tolerant message survives Taliban
By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - Clerics from Egypt's ancient seat of Sunni study Al-Azhar, who spent years teaching in Afghanistan and were planning to open an education centre for…
The Iran Factor in Post Afghanistan Geopolitics
Common belief in geopolitical circles has always considered Iran, with its Shia orientation, as being completely opposed to the Taliban because of the obscurantist Sunni ideology that the latter follows.…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
Impact of Taliban’s “Victory” on Global Islamist Terrorism
US led Global War on Terror has had a stifling effect on most Islamist terror groups around the world since its start in 2001. However, the chaotic and haphazard US…
By Col Deepak Kumar (Retd.)
Women’s rights activist to leaders at UN: Don’t let Taliban fool you
By Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Afghan rapper and activist, Sonita Alizadeh, fled her homeland with her family when it was last ruled by the Taliban more than two…
