A single suicide bomber carried out an attack last year outside Kabul's airport that killed at least 173 people, including 13 U.S. soldiers, a Pentagon investigation has concluded.
In this week’s Gandhara Briefing, we bring you insights on why Afghan children are dying from hunger, the ethnic infighting within the Taliban ranks, and how the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has bolstered Islamist political parties in Pakistan.
The Taliban reportedly has freed two local journalists from the private Ariana TV station two days after they were detained for unknown reasons.
In Afghanistan's Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains.
A mother said she considered selling her child amid the humanitarian and economic crisis that has gripped Afghanistan -- she had already sold her kidney. Many others say they have done the same. Elsewhere, a long, dusty line of people waited patiently for cash handouts from the UN's refugee agency.
Two local journalists from popular Afghan private television network Ariana have been detained by Taliban forces in Kabul for unknown reasons, according to their colleagues and family members.
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.
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