Afghan women play cricket at the grounds of the stadium in Herat (Photo by AREF KARIMI/AFP via Getty … [+] Images) AFP via Getty Images After a belated resolution between foes India and Pakistan, that caused major delays in the scheduling and resulted in logistical issues, next month’s Champions Trophy is being engulfed in more […]
In a chilly auditorium in Afghanistan, heaps of freshly mined green emeralds glowed under bright table lamps as bearded gemstone dealers inspected them for purity and quality. An auctioneer asked for bids on the first lot, which weighed 256 carats. With that, the Taliban’s weekly gemstone auction was underway. These sales, in the emerald-rich Panjshir […]
Pakistani leaders were once friends of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, cross-border violence has become alarmingly frequent.
The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. In a letter published on X Sunday night, the Economy Ministry warned that failure to […]
With the war now over, the Taliban are welcoming foreign travelers, even as governments advise their citizens to stay away.
The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be.
Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue – who was seen in the viral, night vision photo showing the final American soldier out of Kabul, Afghanistan – was quietly confirmed by the Senate on Monday to lead U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa. Donahue, who headed the 82nd Airborne Division during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, was […]
