- 29 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityTaliban
Exclusive-Taliban names Afghan U.N. envoy, asks to speak to world leaders
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail…
Taliban expand economic team as Afghan crisis deepens
(Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban government bolstered its economic team on Tuesday, naming a commerce minister and two deputies as the group tries to revive a financial system in shock from…
Afghanistan’s Taliban say working on reopening girls’ high schools
(Reuters) - The Taliban administration in Afghanistan is working towards reopening high school education for girls, who were left out of a recent return to school for boys and younger…
Taliban say no al Qaeda or ISIS in Afghanistan
(Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said on Tuesday there was no evidence of Islamic State or al Qaeda militants being in the country, days after Islamic State claimed responsibility for…
India seizes $2.7 billion Afghan heroin haul amid Kabul takeover chaos
By Sumit Khanna and Zeba Siddiqui AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Indian officials said on Tuesday they had seized nearly three tonnes of heroin originating from Afghanistan worth an estimated 200 billion…
Islamic state claims responsibility for attacks in eastern Afghanistan
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, the group's Amaaq News Agency said on its Telegram…
Afghan activists protest outside shuttered women affairs ministry
(Reuters) - About two dozen women activists protested outside Afghanistan's women's ministry on Sunday after it was closed by Taliban militants in power in Kabul and replaced by their Ministry…
Three killed in blasts in Afghan city of Jalalabad, sources say
(Reuters) - At least three people were killed and about 20 wounded in a series of blasts in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, two sources in the…
Lessons From Kabul Fiasco
The apex leadership of the Taliban which claims control over Kabul had deferred its ceremonial declaration of the launch of its regime on the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terror…
By Dr Seshadri Chari
UNHCR chief says ‘space for discussion’ with Taliban over human rights
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said on Friday he found that the Taliban have space for discussion and engagement on…
Taliban say Afghan boys’ schools to reopen, no mention of girls
(Reuters) - Afghan schools will open for boys from Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education said in a statement that gave no indication of when girls might be able…
Regional powers at summit demand U.S. fund Afghan aid
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, China, Pakistan and other regional states called on the United States on Friday to engage with the Taliban and fund aid to Afghanistan, though they also…
