Mar 23, 2021
The Afghan politician has survived two assassination attempts and is one of four Afghan women negotiating with the Taliban. “The power of words is stronger than the power of bullets,” she tells NPR. Source: NPR News, 3/16/21, by JEEVIKA VERMA, Fawzia Koofi...
Jun 3, 2020
US engagement has helped Trump but done little for Afghan civilians, as the brutal attack on a maternity hospital shows, says analyst Kate Clark […] Source: The Guardian Newspaper, Opinion, Despite the ‘peace process’, Afghanistan’s anguish...
Nov 23, 2017
By Sune Engel Rasmussen, November 16, 2017, for The Guardian With the country’s opium production rising by 87% on last year, a former US base in Helmand is now a drug abuse treatment centre For a decade, the office of the British Provincial Reconstruction Team in...
Nov 7, 2017
By Nicole Valentini, 26 October 2017, for Global Voices On an autumn night in 1994, the Taliban were getting ready to conquer Afghanistan. Only two years before, a terrible civil war had broken out among the different Mujahideen factions that had defeated the...
Oct 30, 2017
By: Ayaz Gul, October 26, 2017, for VOA News ISLAMABAD — America’s security “failures” in Afghanistan are evident from events of the week when visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not move out of a U.S. military base and invited...