At a ceremony for journalists in Mazar-i-Sharif, a city in northern Afghanistan, a security guard was killed, and five Afghan journalists and three children were injured. That’s what the police say. When children began to sing the national anthem after the speech of a senior Taliban official, “I heard a […]
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The passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul is temporarily closed due to the high demand for identity documents. The equipment for issuing biometric passports has failed under the pressure of many thousands of applications every day, the head of the office said. Demand for passports has exploded in […]
Taliban leaders say they met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The Taliban say they want to form a government together with other parties. Their delegation included Annas Haqqani of the infamous Haqqani Network. Former peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah accompanied Karzai. Karzai became president in late 2001 after the fall […]
According to a spokesman for the German government, it is currently not possible to use Kabul International Airport. He said there are so many people on the airport grounds that it is impossible to fly. Images have already appeared on social media of numerous people walking the runway and […]
In Afghanistan, the Taliban say they now also control Kandahar, the country’s second-largest city. As a result, several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, are sending military personnel to accompany the departure of their embassy staff. Afghan cities are rapidly falling into the hands of […]
In the first months of this year, more than 500 civilians died in Afghanistan. Violence even increased after the United States and the Taliban reached an agreement in late February, the UN mission in the country reports. UN mission UNAMA says there were 1,293 innocent victims in the first […]
The United States has seen in the last six days that violence in Afghanistan has fallen sharply. That said US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo, who warned Iran not to thwart the peace process. The US and the Taliban had agreed to reduce violence in Afghanistan this week. A historic […]
Tonight Rudi Vranckx goes to Afghanistan in “The Eternal War”. After 18 years of war, the US and the Taliban seem to be close to a peace agreement again today. But what would that mean for women’s rights in the country? Brave Afghan women today draw a red line […]
The UN mission in Afghanistan says that 30 children died in April in a helicopter attack by the Afghan army. In total 36 people died. 51 children were among the 71 wounded. The UN does not exclude that more victims have fallen. During the attack of April 2, participants […]
