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Congressional lawmakers raised concerns with Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan in hearings this week about the future of the war-torn country with a resurgent Taliban and U.S. troops withdrawn. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) noted the Taliban's...
The death toll in the latest atrocity in Afghanistan is now at least 85. That's 85 schoolgirls murdered. Some as young as 13. These are just four of the innocent children killed simply for going to school. With U.S. and NATO troops about to withdraw completely from the country, the timing may be...
The Taliban has denied involvement in a bombing at a girls' school in Kabul that killed at least 50 people over the weekend, but an expert on human rights and the rule of law in Afghanistan told Newsweek their denials don't really matter. "They can deny it as much as they want, but..."
The United States' decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without peace agreements in place between the Taliban and the Afghan government has left many fearful about what the future will hold for women in the region. Roya Rahmani, the Afghan ambassador to the U.S., said she is worried...
Belquis Ahmadi, senior program officer with the United States Institute of Peace’s Afghanistan team, joins Julie Mason to talk her latest piece in the USIP “Democracy Is the Afghan Government’s Best Defense Against the Taliban”.
n early April, President Joe Biden announced that America will be ending its military presence in Afghanistan by September 11th of this year. "It is time to end America's longest war. It is time for American troops to come home," the President said...
A leaked letter from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Ashraf Ghani instructing the Afghan president to comply with new initiatives to restart the peace process to enable a US troop pullout caught Afghan women’s rights activists by surprise on International Women’s Day and underscored the disconnect between...
Often overlooked among the innumerable consequences of conflict in Afghanistan is the impact on mental health, especially among youth. Though there is a shortage of data showing the plight of mental health in Afghanistan, a study conducted by Gallup indicated that...
Fawzia Koofi was lucky to survive with minor injuries when gunmen attacked her car in Kabul on Friday, just days before she was due to travel to Qatar’s capital Doha to take part in the Afghan government’s first direct talks with the Taliban. The former member of parliament, one of...
On February 29 in Doha, Qatar, the U.S. signed a peace agreement with the Taliban. Each side gets what it wants most. The US gets to bring home the 12,000 US troops stationed...