Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’

Taliban education policies hurting boys too: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Wednesday that the education policies implemented by the Taliban in Afghanistan are harming boys as well as girls. “Human Rights Watch interviewed boys and parents of boys across 8 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces and found an alarming deterioration in boys’ access to education and the quality of their education,” the… […]

Taliban Pocketing $2.5 Billion In US Taxpayer Humanitarian Aid: Inspector General

Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. taxpayers have provided $2.5 billion in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan to international nonprofit organizations since the United States’ abrupt August 2021 withdrawal—a chaotic departure scarred by suicide bombings that killed 180 people, including 13 American service members. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) […]

Afghanistan’s Opium Cultivation Dropped by 95% Since the Taliban took Power

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 95 percent since the Taliban took control of the country, the United Nations’ DEA says in a new report. The cultivation was banned in April 2022 by the Taliban, who announced that violations of the covenant will be punished “in accordance with Sharia law”. Already in 2000, […]

Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million

As the clock ticked down to the Nov. 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. Source

A Shitposting YouTuber Captured by the Taliban Was Just Freed

The Taliban released four British nationals from captivity in Afghanistan, including edgelord shitposter “Lord” Miles Routledge. Routledge is infamous as a self-proclaimed “war tourist” who first gained notoriety when he barely escaped Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal in 2021. The BBC broke the story of Routledge’s release on October 10 and the U.K.’s home office […]

Taliban Officials Visit Villages Struck By Earthquake That Killed At Least 2,000 People

A magnitude 6.3 quake hit western Afghanistan’s Herat province, killing at least 2,000 people and flattening entire villages. Source

Taliban angry with Saudi media over ‘fake news’

Afghanistan’s Taliban movement has expressed “anger and dissatisfaction” with the Saudi media over false news about the movement’s summoning of the Saudi Chargé d’Affaires to protest the presence of a woman in a meeting held a few days ago. Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya channel and other Saudi media outlets reported that the Taliban had summoned the Saudi Chargé […]

Trump: Taliban Faced Consequences when They Violated Afghanistan Deal

On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump defended his plan to withdraw from Afghanistan and his administration’s deal with the Taliban by arguing that the Taliban faced consequences when they didn’t follow the deal. Source

Evil offer to Taliban

TEHRAN – Nearly two years after the triumphant return of the Taliban to Kabul, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan remains dire, which seems to have motivated the U.S. to leverage it against its rivals.  Source

Biden Has Handed Taliban Over $2 Billion In 2 Years [to arm them for war with Iran]

READ HERE: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-has-handed-taliban-over-2-billion-2-years-sigar-report-finds   Source

Biden Admin Caught Secretly Funnelling $2 BILLION to Taliban Terrorists – Media Blackout

The Biden regime has been secretly funnelling a whopping $2.35 billion of taxpayer money to the Taliban over the past two years, according to a bombshell report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction […] The post Biden Admin Caught Secretly Funnelling $2 BILLION to Taliban Terrorists – Media Blackout appeared first on The […]

Report: Biden Has Handed Taliban Over $2 BILLION In 2 Years

A report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) notes that the Biden administration has given $2.35 billion to Afghanistan over the past two years, despite the fact that it is now ruled by the Taliban again following the disastrous U.S. withdrawal in 2021. The Washington Free Beacon shared details of the findings Tuesday, […]

Taliban Eradicates Poppy Growing & Strives to Develop Afghanistan With Help From Other Nations

Taliban Urges International Cooperation To Replace Opium, Develop Afghanistan July 13, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—In an interview on Arab News “Frankly Speaking” broadcast aired July 10, senior Taliban leader Suhail Shaheen called on the international community to come to Afghanistan’s aid and help the nation to become a thriving part of the global community after 20 years of […]

How the Taliban crushed the CIA’s heroin bonanza in Afghanistan

JUL 07, 2023 The Taliban has not once, but twice eradicated Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation, the world’s largest source of heroin. Despite western accusations, it has never been The Taliban behind the Afghan drug industry, but only ever the US and its allies, with billions in profits breezily laundered through the global financial system. William Van […]

Taliban, China discuss banking cooperation

Although Beijing does not have formal diplomatic ties with the Taliban government, China is among the few countries that have maintained a diplomatic presence in Kabul since the Taliban took back the country following the US’ disastrous withdrawal in 2021. Source

Taliban flock to buy perfume and headwear as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr

Shops specialising in perfume and headwear popular among members of the Taliban are packed ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr Source

Afghan embassy in Turkey officially handed over to Taliban

Jalaly added that Gulmat Khan Zadran has been appointed as the new envoy of Afghanistan to Turkey. Earlier on Monday, the Taliban official announced on his Twitter that 7 experienced diplomats have been sent from Kabul to Tehran to continue their activities with the new caretaker of the Afghan Embassy in Iran. This decision was… […]

Taliban sets up investment consortium with firms from Russia, Iran

Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration has set up a consortium of companies, including some in Russia, Iran and Pakistan, to create an investment plan focusing on power, mining and infrastructure, the acting Commerce Minister said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The consortium included 14 Afghan businessmen and his Ministry had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the foreign […]

Declassified U.S. Intelligence Documents Describe Taliban History with Illicit Narcotics Trade

On January 13 of this year, Hasibullah Ahmadi, head of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior’s counternarcotics department, asserted that drug trafficking from the country has dropped, but admitted this illicit trade continues in some provinces. These comments raise the question of the Taliban’s ties to the narcotics market and previous attempts to curb drug production. Source

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Emulate the Taliban

“Stop The Steal” organizer Ali Alexander, clad in body armor, released a video on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol portraying himself and the insurrectionists as the real victims. Andrew Torba declares that “any future political solution that doesn’t involve repealing [the 19th Amendment] is futile. Prepare for pain like […]

Afghan Women Weep As Taliban Fighters Enforce University Ban

The Taliban have banned women from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice. Source

Clinton Compares Pro-Lifers To Iranian Regime, The Taliban & Russian Rapists

Hillary Clinton said America’s treatment of women was part of a global misogynistic movement comparable to Iran’s theocratic ayatollahs, the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and Russia who use rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine. In […] The post Clinton Compares Pro-Lifers To Iranian Regime, The Taliban & Russian Rapists appeared first on News Punch. Source

Afghanistan Judges are ordered by Islamist Taliban groups to enforce Sharia law

Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings and floggings, and the amputation of limbs for thieves. Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted late on Sunday that the ‘obligatory’ command by Hibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges. Akhundzada, […]

Why the Taliban, ISIS and Ukraine are not so different when it comes to blowing up monuments

Lately, it has become increasingly common to read in various media reports about the destruction of various cultural and historical sites and monuments in Ukraine. For example, on November 2, according to local media reports, there was an explosion in the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev. However, this was not the result of shelling of the […]

Taliban Releases American Hostage in Exchange for Afghan Drug Trafficker

The Taliban has released an American engineer they’d kept captive since 2020 in exchange for a Taliban-linked Afghan tribal leader, who was serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison on heroin trafficking charges. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the prisoner exchange between American hostage Mark Frerichs and Taliban ally Bashir Noorzai took […]

Taliban, Pakistan forces clash at border over alleged building of military post

Clashes broke out between Afghanistan’s Taliban and Pakistani forces this week on the border between the two nations, in an incident the Taliban claims was ignited by Pakistan building a military post. The clashes took place on the border at Afghanistan’s Paktia province and Pakistan’s Kurram region earlier this week, reportedly leading to an unclear […]

Taliban, Pakistan forces clash at border over alleged building of military post

Clashes broke out between Afghanistan’s Taliban and Pakistani forces this week on the border between the two nations, in an incident the Taliban claims was ignited by Pakistan building a military post. The clashes took place on the border at Afghanistan’s Paktia province and Pakistan’s Kurram region earlier this week, reportedly leading to an unclear […]

Watch the Taliban Crash a Black Hawk Helicopter in Afghanistan

2021 photo of the Taliban with a Black Hawk. Uncre When America withdrew from Afghanistan, it left behind billions of dollars worth of military equipment, including weapons and vehicles like the UH 60 Black Hawk helicopters. The Taliban seized most of this after U.S. soldiers fled, but it’s already lost one the Black Hawks. On […]

Report: Taliban Engaging in ‘Routine Torture’ of Afghan Christians

Christians who have remained in Afghanistan since the Sunni Islam-based Taliban terror group seized control of the country last August “face routine torture and persecution” from Taliban members and various other Afghans, the Afghan newspaper Etilaat Roz reported on Monday citing an original report by Fox News. “Christians who remain in Afghanistan in the wake of the […]

Taliban Conducting Door-to-Door Raids to Confiscate Guns

Members of Afghanistan’s Taliban conducted door-to-door raids of homes in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday in part to search for and confiscate weapons, including firearms, deemed “illegal” by the terror group, which seized control of Afghanistan’s government in August 2021, the Kabul-based Khaama Press News Agency reported.

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