Taleban Victory or Government Failure? A security update on Laghman province
Laghman has long been contested, with a strong Taleban presence in some rural areas, held at bay by government forces based in district centres.
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Russia boosts arms supplies to Central Asia amid Afghan mayhem
“The main threat to the Central Asian region today comes from the Afghan direction”.
In Central Asia-South Asia Connectivity, no South Asia without India
By Aditi Bhaduri, The Quint Last week the US announced the formation of a new
Remembering Holocaust of the Romas, Europe’s most discriminated community
In 2015 the European Parliament promulgated 2 August as the annual “European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day” to mark the genocide of 500,000 European Romani people
23 ‘Hunger Hotspots’ face food insecurity around the globe
Life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine is being cut off in several countries by fighting and blockades, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said in a new report
Bangladesh: Deadly flooding, landslides devastate Rohingya refugees
Three days of strong winds and heavy monsoon rain on sprawling refugee sites in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar have taken Rohingya refugee lives and wreaked havoc and destruction, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday.
Afghanistan: Record number of women and children killed or wounded
More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, a United Nations report has revealed.
The Taliban: what could its return to power mean for Afghanistan?
An Islamic fundamentalist group dominated by those of Pashtun ethnicity, the Taliban is believed to have first appeared in Saudi Arabia-funded hard-line religious madrassas in northern Pakistan in the early 1990s.
Despite talk of options on Iran, U.S. has few good ones
U.S. President Joe Biden has few real diplomatic alternatives to trying to persuade Iran to resume compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal and all appear harder to achieve, current and former U.S. and European officials said.
Covid Deaths Reach 4 Million as India Eclipses U.S., U.K.
Vaccine disparity leaves poorer countries exposed to outbreaks