Human Rights Watch51mOpinion
Countries Press UN Rights Council on Accountability in Afghanistan
Last week, a cross-regional group of countries – led by Iceland, with support from Chile and South Africa – called on the ...
The Diplomat2h
Challenges to China’s Growing Interests in Afghanistan
While Chinese investment is rising, particularly in the mining sector, the operations face both local pushback and logistical ...
The Print7h
Why ceasfire at key Pak-Afghan border crossing on Durand Line is unlikely to last long
ThePrint Explorer looks at how Imperial Britain came about with Durand Line & how it has remained a bone of contention ...
Amid Soviet Central Asia's boogie nights, the rhythms of a region's future
A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls’ education as new school year begins in Afghanistan
The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the ...
The Diplomat3d
Getting Out of Afghanistan’s Opium Quagmire
According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...
American freed by Taliban reunited with wife, former cellmate, in US
George Glezmann, an American detained in Afghanistan for more than two years before being released by the Taliban, arrived in ...
Union-Bulletin4d
Deportees from the US in Panama go embassy to embassy in desperate scramble to seek asylum
Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and dropped into limbo in Panama are ...
Boston Review6dOpinion
Portrait of a Foreign Policy Failure
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