President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of all 2,500 US troops from the nation on May 1 and ending on Sept. 11, the war’s 20th anniversary.Biden stated that he would not hand over the nation’s longest conflict to another president. He stated that he inherited the year-end drawdown date and that he intended to retain the US-Taliban deal that was formed during the previous Trump administration.An Inside story the consequences and effects of US Military withdrawal from Afghanistan
The latest round of Taliban-Afghan government peace talks in Qatar ended on July 19 with little apparent progress. Many Afghans are concerned about the group’s failure to accept women’s rights in the past
“We ask for a United Nations mission to ascertain the truth about the recent attacks on civilians”. With foreign troops on the path of withdrawal, the Taliban on the offensive, a weak government, growing violence and “very worrying future scenarios”, in an interview with Agenzia Fides Shaharzad Akbar, at the head of the “Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission” (AIHRC), calls for a greater commitment from the international community”
Residents of the Almkhil town in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan are returning to their houses destroyed in the fighting to collect their belongings as a temporary cease-fire largely holds between the Taliban and the Afghan government
The second round of talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban will resume Tuesday. Meanwhile, the United States rejected the Taliban’s accusations that U.S. forces have violated the U.S.-Taliban agreement
2014, Taliban militants kidnapped 25-year-old Reza Khoshnood Khurami and cut off parts of two of his fingers that were stained with ink from a polling station. This September, Khurami went to vote again, determined not to be intimidated by the brutal attack