U.S. President Joe Biden on January 30 called on the Taliban to release American civil engineer and contractor Mark Frerichs as he reaches the two-year mark since his abduction in Kabul.
A report from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the UN Security Council reportedly accuses the fundamentalist Taliban of dozens of revenge killings since the Taliban swept into control of much of Afghanistan in August.
Pakistan's national-security adviser has met with high-ranked members of the Taliban-led government in Kabul, to discuss bilateral cooperation, border issues, and efforts to avert a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, officials said on January 29.
Tensions are high in northern Afghanistan as online videos show Taliban fighters seizing villages and farmland from ethnic Turkmen and Uzbeks. Now violence has broken out in a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan after a local Taliban commander -- an ethnic Uzbek -- was arrested.
The number of malnourished children in Afghanistan is rapidly rising, as witnessed by increased hospital admissions of starving children. Aid agencies warn that more than 1 million children could die of starvation this winter amid a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.
In this week’s Gandhara Briefing, we bring you insights on how the Taliban is misappropriating international aid, the Taliban’s use of water to appease Iran, and Pakistan’s new effort to negotiate with the TTP.
Afghan singer and artist Goodar Zazai He spoke about the situation in the in the country from undisclosed location to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told the Security Council that Afghanistan is "hanging by a thread" and urged the body to "suspend the rules and operations" that are preventing the international community from providing urgent assistance.
The Taliban recently released water from a dam in southwestern Afghanistan into Iran, which is suffering from a severe drought. Many observers have seen the move as a sign of deepening cooperation between the Sunni militant group and Iran's Shi'ite clerical regime.
Rights groups say LGBT Afghans are in an increasingly desperate situation after the Taliban takeover as they face serious threats to their safety.
Western diplomats said they linked humanitarian aid to an improvement in human rights in Afghanistan during meetings with a Taliban delegation in Norway.
The Taliban is forcing Afghans to do manual labor in exchange for food aid donated by other countries. Now the regime is expanding its "work-for-food" program by using international humanitarian aid to pay public sector workers.
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