Recent increase in attacks by the Taliban and ISIL have compromised advances in rights, Afghans say. It's America's Longest War and one that President Barack Obama promised to...
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Over 5.6 Million Children to be Vaccinated Against Polio Across Afghanistan
The Ministry of Public Health along with its partners UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) will tomorrow launch a polio vaccination campaign in all provinces of...
Afghanistan’s First Privately Financed Power Plant Generates Promise
Countries with a recent history of war and violence are used to making headlines, but it’s rarely for reasons that citizens and their leaders would hope for. That might be...
Afghanistan Itself Is Now Taking In the Most Afghan Migrants
"By the end of the year, officials expect some 1.5 million migrants to return to Afghanistan — many of them forcibly, and including some registered as refugees." There is one...
Kafka in Cuba: New AAN report on The Afghan Experience in Guantánamo
Afghans make up more than a quarter of the inmates ever held at Guantánamo Bay, the largest national grouping among United States ‘war on terror’ detainees taken to Cuba. Most...
UN Demands Afghanistan End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
Media defenders in Afghanistan say at least 11 journalists have died and hundreds more forced to flee from fighting in the first 10 months of 2016, making it the deadliest year...
Afghanistan’s Corruption Epidemic Is Wasting Billions in Aid
When I worked as an adviser to the Afghanistan government, even the smallest of infrastructure projects became politicised and overshadowed by corruption. When the ministry...
Afghanistan's Corruption Epidemic Is Wasting Billions in Aid
When I worked as an adviser to the Afghanistan government, even the smallest of infrastructure projects became politicised and overshadowed by corruption. When the ministry...
Afghanistan's Tribal Areas Are Still the Key to the War on Terror
On October 31, a suicide bomber killed six people and wounded six others at a meeting of tribal elders in the eastern province of Nangarhar in Afghanistan. Elders had gathered at...
Afghanistan’s Tribal Areas Are Still the Key to the War on Terror
On October 31, a suicide bomber killed six people and wounded six others at a meeting of tribal elders in the eastern province of Nangarhar in Afghanistan. Elders had gathered at...
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