UN suggests paying Taliban $6M to provide security
Plan to subsidize Taliban fighters' monthly wages to guard UN facilities underscores ongoing insecurity in Afghanistan following US pullout.
Tag: Afghanistan
Afghan girl defies Taliban by translating forbidden books
"The Taliban is against any culture, music, television, social media, and the scene of women walking on the streets," she ...
Clashes in Iran-Afghanistan 'border misunderstanding' reportedly over
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency says reports over the capture of an Iranian border camp by the Taliban are false.
Targeted killings put Taliban's claims of safer Afghanistan in question
US officials said to be concerned by increasingly open conflict between Taliban and ISIS. "After decades of war, it will ...
Woman now thought to be Afghanistan's last Jew flees country
Distant cousin of Zebulon Simentov, who branded himself "last Jew in Afghanistan," flees country for Albania following Taliban takeover with ...
Taliban rewards families of suicide bombers with cash, offers of land
Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is wanted as a "specially designated global terrorist" by the US, meets bombers' families, ...
Taliban victory in Afghanistan boosts Pakistan's radicals
Pakistan's Taliban, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban or TTP, is separate from Afghanistan’s Taliban. The TTP arose in the early 2000s ...
Last Jew of Kabul reportedly to reach Israel as soon as this week
His arrival would end a weekslong odyssey that included an escape from his homeland as well as a videoconference divorce ...
Report: NGO IsraAID helped bring over 100 Afghans escape Taliban
According to the Jerusalem Post, individuals deemed at risk such as judges, human rights activists, and journalists, were helped out ...
Can the Taliban quash ISIS?
The Islamic State's future trajectory in Afghanistan will depend largely on its ability to recruit more members and win over ...