Source: Al Jazeera
The United States and Britain have warned their citizens to avoid hotels in Afghanistan, days after dozens of people were killed at a mosque in an attack claimed by the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K).
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Spain to evacuate more Afghan workers, families left behind
Source: Associated Press
MADRID (AP) — Spain has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Spain’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that it is working with the foreign ministry on a new evacuation mission.
Afghanistan’s junior female football team to relocate to UK
Source: The Guardian
Afghanistan’s junior female football team and their immediate families are to relocate to Britain from Pakistan after recently escaping their homeland, the government has said.
US to give humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Taliban say
Source: The Guardian
The United States has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, but refused to give political recognition to the country’s new rulers, the Taliban said on Sunday.
U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the U.S. side reiterated that the Taliban would be judged on their actions, not just their words.
Resettlement reports from the US
More than a month after the evacuation flights have begun and the resettlement efforts have ramped up in the US local news outlets report on the progress and experiences for the local population and Afghan refugees arriving in the US.
In this regular feature we will give you an overview of multiple articles and reports found in different sources.
Continue reading Resettlement reports from the USTaliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says
Source: BBC
The Taliban murdered 13 ethnic Hazara people including a teenage girl, according to a prominent rights group.
Amnesty International said it found evidence the victims were massacred in Daykundi province in August.
Nine were former government soldiers who had surrendered to the Taliban, Amnesty said, adding that the killings appeared to be a war crime.
Taliban meet with UK, Iran delegations amid economic woes
Source: Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders met Tuesday with U.K. officials for the first time since taking power, a move the group hopes will pave the way for the country to refill cash-starved coffers as it teeters on the brink of economic collapse.
Hundreds throng passport office in Afghan capital
Source: Reuters
KABUL, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Afghans flocked to the passport office in Kabul on Wednesday, just a day after news that it would re-open this week to issue the documents, while Taliban security men had to beat back some in the crowd in efforts to maintain order.
Taliban officials have said the service will resume from Saturday, after being suspended since their takeover and the fall of the previous government in August, which stranded many of those desperate to flee the country.
Afghanistan to start issuing passports again after months of delays
Source: Reuters
KABUL, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Afghanistan will start issuing passports to its citizens again on Tuesday, a senior official said, following months of delays that hampered attempts by those trying to flee the country after the Taliban seized control in August.
The process, which had slowed even before the Islamist militants’ return to power following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, will provide applicants with documents physically identical to those issued by the previous government, the official said.