Posts Tagged ‘afghan’

Afghan Migrant Arrested for Raping 18-yo Woman, Stabbing Another in Czech Spa City

    An Afghan man is suspected of stabbing a female victim before raping a young woman during a New Year’s Eve rampage in the Czechia, according to reports. A string of brutal attacks unfolded in the early hours of January 1 in Karlovy Vary, a city in the Western Bohemia region renowned for its […]

Why is Turkey so Eager to Run Five Afghan Airports?

-for Qatar and then travel to Afghanistan to discuss in detail the operation of Kabul airport, which is considered to be the main hub for receiving humanitarian aid meant for Afghan citizens and providing international flights. Taliban is interested in Ankara’s proposal for an apparent reason: after the US withdrawal and the flight of many […]

Media forget Afghan plight as US sanctions drive mass famine risk

As the United States withdrew militarily from Afghanistan in August, U.S. T.V. news interest in the plight of the country’s citizens spiked, often focusing on “the horror awaiting women and girls” (CNN Situation Room, 8/16/21) to argue against withdrawal (FAIR.org, 8/23/21). Four months later, as those same citizens have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis […]

Despite Appeals, US Denies Possibility Of Unfreezing Afghan Assets

Above Photo: US White House press secretary Jen Psaki in a press conference on December 14. Tolo News. The UN and several other countries including China have asked the US to release nearly USD 10 billion worth of Afghanistan’s frozen assets to help the Taliban government deal with the humanitarian situation. US White House press […]

S. Korea allocates $2.5m to support Afghan refugees in Iran

S. Korea allocates $2.5m to support Afghan refugees in Iran – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – The Republic of Korea has contributed USD 2.5 million to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Agency, in support of programs to help Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Ambassador of the Republic of […]

US ‘Deeply Concerned’ Over Reports Taliban ‘Disappearing’ Ex-Afghan Officials

The chief U.S. envoy to the Taliban on Wednesday expressed concern over emerging reports that the Taliban terrorist group has summarily killed or forcibly “disappeared” more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since seizing control of Kabul in August. Thomas West, who formerly served as the deputy special representative, said on Twitter that the […]

Afghan Girl From Famous Cover Portrait Is Evacuated To Italy

ROME (AP) — National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italy organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gulla after she asked to be helped to […]

Tehran considers easing visa rules for Afghan nationals

TEHRAN – The Foreign Ministry Director-General for West Asia has said that Iran considers easing visa rules for Afghan nationals. “Facilitation of the legal entry of Afghan citizens into Iran is the best way to combat illegal entry, human trafficking, and many norm-breaking behaviors,” ISNA quoted Seyyed Rasoul Mousavi as saying on Wednesday. “Today (Tuesday), only […]

Afghan Issues in a Transformed World Order

The state and development of the Afghan issue seems to reflect all the flaws of today’s global order, which has also begun to “radically transform.” While the relevance of this kind of change process is more or less obvious, it is not clear where their generalized vector is headed. Furthermore, an important question seems to […]

Europe rights court slams Croatia on Afghan family pushback

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled against Croatia in a 2017 migrant pushback case after which a 6-year-old girl was killed by a train on the border with Serbia. The death of Madina Hussiny in November 2017 focused international attention on the plight of migrants in the Balkans as they looked for […]

Kim Kardashian Helps Fly Afghan Women Soccer Players To UK

LONDON (AP) — Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team arrived in Britain early Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and Kim Kardashian West. A plane chartered by the reality star and carrying more than 30 teenage players and their families, about […]

Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?

A man grieves during a mass funeral for members of a family was killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times) I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not an email of […]

From punishing the Taliban to punishing the Afghan people

Following the departure of American occupation forces from Afghanistan it seems that the international community, especially the US, is moving from trying to punish the Taliban to punishing the Afghan people. It was the Taliban fighters, of course, who basically defeated US troops in the longest war in American history. This shift is exposed by […]

Turkey condemns deadly terrorist attacks in Afghan capital

On Tuesday, Turkey the deadly terror attacks this week in the Afghan capital, Kabul, calling them “inhuman acts of terrorism.” The Turkish Foreign Ministry, in a statement, expressed sadness over casualties from two successive bomb attacks and subsequent armed clashes at the entrance of Afghanistan’s largest military hospital. The ministry wished God’s mercy upon those […]

US-Trained Afghan Spies & Special Forces Are Joining ISIS For ‘Protection’ Against Taliban

Many former national Afghan forces who are now being hunted by the Taliban after their US military backers withdrew from the country in August are turning to the Islamic State for protection, a new investigative Wall Street Journal report finds. Also among those joining the ranks of ISIS in Afghanistan, or ISIS-K, are members of […]

Moscow Takes Initiative in Tackling the Afghan Issue

On October 20, the Russian capital hosted Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan, a meeting involving members of the Taliban (banned in Russia) as well as representatives of China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The US welcomed the talks, saying though that it would abstain from this meeting. Russia was represented at […]

 Vietnamese, Afghan & Iraqi Genocides: Mainstream Media Ignore War Crimes Of Colin Powell

The former African-American military commander  Colin Powell has just died from COVID-19 complications, and mendacious and pro-war Western Mainstream media and politicians  have been fulsome in their praise for the first Black American Secretary of  State while conceding his error at the UN over non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction  (WMD). Missing has been  mention […]

U.S. Ties Up $9.5 Billion of Afghan Funds Hoping to Collapse Afghan Economy Starving 14 Million Afghans

by Admin · Published October 21, 2021 · Updated October 21, 2021 Ron Wieczorek Octobehr 189 atg0nsm7o3 8u:4746 ePM2  · “Washington Urged to Release Afghan Funds”Oct. 18 (EIRNS)—PARIS, Oct. 18, 2021 (Nouvelle Solidarité)—Without mentioning the Schiller Institute’s international mobilization, China Daily, under this title, gives today on its website a rundown of several voices demonstrating that “raising concerns are growing over […]

Afghan migrants in Bosnia still hope to reach EU despite violent pushback

Several hundred Afghan migrants including women, children and a seven-day-old baby have settled in a makeshift tent camp near the border with Croatia, determined to continue their journey to the European Union despite pushback and deportations, Reuter’s reports. “I don’t want to go back to my country ever again,” said a man who identified himself […]

Guess What Happened to This Hotel After it Allowed 150 Afghan Refugees to Stay

A powerful blast that ripped through an apartment block in Gothenburg was likely caused by an explosive device, raising the prospect of another gang-linked attack in multicultural Sweden. The explosion tore through the building in the Annedal district in central Gothenburg on Tuesday morning, starting a major fire. “The explosion rocked through the building just […]

Several Afghan Refugees Rape Female Soldier at Fort Bliss

Several Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss are being investigated by the FBI for the brutal rape of a female soldier. The news comes just days after two other Afghan refugees were arrested for child rape spouse abuse. NEW: The FBI confirms to @FoxNews they’ve launched an investigation into the alleged assault of a female U.S. […]

Afghan Refugees at Fort McCoy Arrested for Child Rape & Assaulting Woman

Two Afghan evacuees will face federal charges at Fort McCoy for attempting to rape a child and assaulting a woman. Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to rape a child. Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her. Thepostmillennial.com reports: Both men made initial appearances in Madison […]

CDC: Biden’s Afghan Migrants Pouring into U.S. Are Riddled with Diseases

President Joe Biden is allowing Afghans into the United States who are riddled with diseases such as measles, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid, according to a damning CDC report. On Monday, the CDC announced that the thousands of Afghans continuing to pour into the U.S. under Biden’s watch must be vaccinated as soon as possible otherwise […]

ISIS-K Bombs Eastern Afghan City, Kills Taliban Fighters

ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings that killed or injured more than 35 Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, Fox News reported Monday. ISIS-K on September 19 “claimed responsibility for six explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (IED)” on September 18 and 19 in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar […]

Afghan Survivors of Failed U.S. Drone Strike: Sorry Is ‘Not Enough’

Afghan survivors of the failed U.S. drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians, including seven children, say “sorry” is not enough and are demanding accountability. On Friday, U.S. Central Command commander General Kenneth McKenzie admitted that the man targeted in the drone strike was aid worker Zemari Ahmadi, who had no connections with ISIS or […]

Afghan Survivors Of U.S. Drone Strike Say Apology ‘Is Not Enough’

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Sorry is not enough for the Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of their family, including seven children. Emal Ahmadi, whose 3-year-old daughter Malika was killed on Aug. 29, when the U.S. hellfire missile struck his elder brother’s car, told The Associated Press on Saturday […]

US Drones Still Fly Over the Afghan Horizon

Facing unrelenting criticism over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden Administration is insisting that the United States will maintain a capability to launch airstrikes in Afghanistan, regardless of the legal limitations and possibility of perpetuating the war. The Biden Administration vows to keep in place an “over-the-horizon capability,” meaning that the United States will still be able […]

Report: Joe Biden Brings to U.S. Another Afghan Felon Trump Deported

President Joe Biden’s administration has reportedly brought a second convicted Afghan felon, previously deported by former President Trump’s administration, back to the United States as part of its massive resettlement operation. The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan has exclusively reported that an Afghan, convicted of aggravated robbery in 2011 and subsequently deported in 2017, was able to […]

“Do Not Touch My Clothes”: Afghan Women Post Selfies in Colorful Dresses to Protest Taliban Dress Codes

Fatima Kakkar, MD, MPH (@DrFatimaKakkar) wrote: Proudly wearing in our traditional, colourful, vibrant Afghan clothes #DoNotTouchMyClothes #AfghanWoman #AfghanistanCulture #AfganistanWomen Afghan women are protesting Taliban imposed women dress code. At the same time, Taliban organized a head to toe veiled women gathering at the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021 attended by […]

The True Lessons of the Afghan War

Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn’t much to say that hadn’t been said before. For some of them, however, that was […]

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