UN: Afghan economic collapse 'approaching a point of irrev...
March 4 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban lacks international recognition six months after overrunning Kabul as the last US-led international troops departed, ending 2...
Children on the edge of life: Afghanistan's innocent victi...
March 3 ,2022
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By: Freya Carr and Jim Huylebroek
Harija, 6, lives with her parents and five siblings in a tiny two-room house made of compacted earth in a remote desert communit...
Taliban struggle to maintain unity six months into their r...
March 3 ,2022
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By: Stefanie Glinski
Members of the Uzbek Taliban are seen in Afghanistan’s northern Jowzjan province on Jan. 27.STEFANIE GLINSKI FOR FOREIGN POLICY...
Afghan Taliban arrests dozens in house-to-house sweeps
March 1 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Over 60,000 rounds of ammunition were uncovered, as well as 13 armored vehicles and 13 tons of gunpowder and explosives. (Reuters)...
Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley under risk of collapse as exc...
The rapid construction work and excavations on the UNESCO World Heritage site are contributing to the destruction of the already frag...
US allows transactions with Afghanistan despite sanctions
February 28 ,2022
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By: Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON: The US has issued new rules allowing most commercial and financial transactions with Afghanistan that could kick-start the...
Food aplenty in Kabul's shops, but few buyers
February 28 ,2022
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By: Sara Perria
A man sits at the entrance of his shop in Kabul on Feb. 8. © AP
KABUL -- When the Taliban took over Kabul in...
Edhi team reaches Afghanistan to provide aid
February 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
PESHAWAR: A team from the Edhi Foundation has reached Afghanistan for extending help to the distressed people of the war-torn country....
Abandoned US arms fueling militancy in Pakistan
February 24 ,2022
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By: FM Shakil
Baloch rebels in Pakistan have gained access to advanced US and NATO weaponry. Image: Facebook/Getty
PESHAWAR – Sophisticate...
Taliban to create Afghanistan ‘grand army’ with old regime...
February 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Members of the Taliban Badri 313 unit stand guard as newly recruited Taliban members who graduated from the Islamic Javadiya Madrassa...
UNICEF to pay stipend to Afghan teachers as ’emergency sup...
February 22 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan students attend classes at a private school on the outskirts of capital Kabul [File: Wakil Kohsar/AFP]
The United Nations c...
Brits, American detained by Afghanistan's Taliban
February 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Peter Jouvenal, a former freelance cameraman turned businessman, was taken on December 13, according to his wife. (AP)
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The world needs to step up support for Afghan refugee educ...
February 21 ,2022
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By: Evan Jones
Pakistan is home to 1.44 million registered Afghan refugees, and a further 600,000 unregistered Afghan refugees, many of whom have been...
A cash crunch is crippling Afghanistan
February 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The International Rescue Committee, a big ngo, helps displaced Afghans with cash, clean water and tents to shelter in. It pro...
The Taliban takeover and militancy in South Asia
February 19 ,2022
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By: Noorulain Naseem
February 15 marked six months since the Taliban’s rapid takeover and control of Kabul following the U.S. and NATO troop withdrawa...
‘What is our fault?’: Afghans wonder why they should pay f...
February 18 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
For Rizakullah, taking money that belongs to Afghans to pay the families of 9/11 victims, while the country faces widespread hunger, is...
How a Soviet intelligence officer became a Muslim and an A...
February 18 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The 56-year-old Sherefovic Hakimov, a former Soviet military personnel, no longer identifies himself as Russian. He lives in Afghanista...
Biden hammers a $7 billion nail into Afghanistan’s coffin
February 18 ,2022
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By: Cheryl Benard, Medea Benjamin & Masuda Sultan
On February 11, President Joe Biden issued an executive order regarding the Afghanistan Central Bank’s funds. This exercise in au...
Biden’s bank heist
February 15 ,2022
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By: Asad Rahim Khan
If there was ever a scale for imperial thievery, the past few centuries run the range: there was Clive and Rhodes and of course Leopold...
China to soldier on in Pakistan despite attacks
February 15 ,2022
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By: FM Shakil
Balochistan Liberation Army fighters at an undisclosed location in a file photo. Image: Facebook
PESHAWAR – Despite facing l...
Hamid Karzai: US transfer of Afghan funds to 9/11 victims...
February 15 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Karzai rejects "unjust and unfair" US order, saying Afghans have also been victims of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. (AP)
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