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October 25, 2021
China's Foreign Minister To Meet With Taliban During Visit To Qatar

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with Taliban representatives during a visit to Qatar, in their latest high-level talks since the withdrawal of U.S.-led international forces in August.

October 25, 2021
UN Warns That More Than Half Of Afghans Face 'Acute' Food Shortages

Almost 23 million Afghans will suffer "acute food insecurity" this winter due to the combined impacts of drought, conflict, the coronavirus pandemic, and an economic crisis exacerbated by turmoil after the Taliban took power in the country, two UN agencies warned on October 25.
October 25, 2021
IS-K Attacks On Afghan Shi'a Are Crimes Against Humanity, Says HRW

Human Rights Watch has warned that the attacks against Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority perpetrated by an affiliate of the Islamic State group amount to crimes against humanity.
October 24, 2021
Khalilzad: U.S. Didn't Press Ghani Enough To Share Power With Taliban

Zalmay Khalilzad, speaking publicly for the first time since stepping down as the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, said the United States did not put enough pressure on Afghanistan’s president to share power with the Taliban.
October 24, 2021
Eight Orphan Children Found Dead From Starvation In Kabul

An ethnic Hazara political leader and former member of Afghanistan's parliament says the bodies of eight orphan children who starved to death have been found on the west side of Kabul.
October 23, 2021
Afghan Pilots Who Fled To Tajikistan Say Taliban Is Threatening Relatives Back Home

Afghan military pilots who fled to Tajikistan when the Taliban seized power in Kabul say the militant group is pressuring them to return to Afghanistan by threatening to kill their relatives.
October 23, 2021
Russian-Led CSTO Stages More Counterterrorism Drills On Tajik-Afghan Border

Members of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have completed another joint counterterrorism training exercise in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan.
October 22, 2021
A Young Afghan Immigrant In Hungary Sees His Future In Football

Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family fled the conflict in Afghanistan, making part of the journey to Europe on foot and by boat. Now 14 and settled in Budapest, Jan feels at home in his new country and dreams of making a career as a professional soccer player.
October 22, 2021
Taliban Wages Deadly Crackdown On Afghan Salafists As War With IS-K Intensifies

The Taliban is waging a deadly crackdown on members of Afghanistan's small community of Salafists, an ultraradical Islamic sect. The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Taliban and its rival, Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militants, many of whom are Salafists.
October 22, 2021
Afghan Student: Under Taliban Rule, Teachers Go Hungry Or Don’t Show Up At All

Mursal Kohistani, a student from Parwan province in Afghanistan, spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on October 20. In her words, although secondary and high schools are still open for girls, little is happening in them. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
October 22, 2021
'Women Prefer To Die Than Live Like Slaves': Kabul Protest Sparks Taliban Violence

Locals say a protest that took place in Kabul on October 21 shows the increasing desperation of Afghan women, whose freedoms have been stripped away by the Taliban since the hard-line Islamists seized power on August 15.
October 22, 2021
HRW: Afghan Hazaras, Ex-Civil Servants Targeted By 'Collective Punishment,' Land-Grabbing

Human Rights Watch accuses the Taliban of forcibly displacing hundreds of families across Afghanistan, mainly as a form of “collective punishment” against ethnic Shi’ite Hazaras and people associated with the former government.

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Monday 25 October 2021

China's Foreign Minister To Meet With Taliban During Visit To Qatar

UN Warns That More Than Half Of Afghans Face 'Acute' Food Shortages

IS-K Attacks On Afghan Shi'a Are Crimes Against Humanity, Says HRW

Khalilzad: U.S. Didn't Press Ghani Enough To Share Power With Taliban

Eight Orphan Children Found Dead From Starvation In Kabul

Afghan Pilots Who Fled To Tajikistan Say Taliban Is Threatening Relatives Back Home

Russian-Led CSTO Stages More Counterterrorism Drills On Tajik-Afghan Border

A Young Afghan Immigrant In Hungary Sees His Future In Football

Taliban Wages Deadly Crackdown On Afghan Salafists As War With IS-K Intensifies

Afghan Student: Under Taliban Rule, Teachers Go Hungry Or Don’t Show Up At All

'Women Prefer To Die Than Live Like Slaves': Kabul Protest Sparks Taliban Violence

HRW: Afghan Hazaras, Ex-Civil Servants Targeted By 'Collective Punishment,' Land-Grabbing

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