Aug 12, 2022
A year after the Taliban took power, humanitarian needs are rising even as foreign aid has dried up. During the former Islamic Republic, foreign aid grants funded 75 percent of public spending. Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the United States has provided...
Aug 10, 2022
From mass deportation to unkept relocation pledges, both neighboring and Western countries have turned their backs on at-risk and displaced Afghans. Source: One year on, few options for Afghans escaping hunger and Taliban persecution, The New Humanitarian, by Mat...
Aug 9, 2022
Hassib Habibi carries his convictions as easily as his AK-47. Now he has to resuscitate the Afghan economy as the 31-year-old deputy director of economic cooperation at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Habibi recalled the debates he had with friends in Kabul...
Aug 5, 2022
The first leg of a Wahid’s 13 hour walk with his family of six to the airport wall where they searched for Polish troops. One year ago this week I started receiving emails from panicked Afghans about the Taliban takeover. Rahmat emailed with fear that he was...
Aug 5, 2022
The war on terrorism will not be won with targeted strikes on leadership. That will require political and economic reforms to address popular grievances and create more responsive governance in Muslim-majority countries. Source: Do Targeted Killings Weaken Terrorist...
