While the Israeli forces continue their ground offensive in Lebanon, Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, last week signed a ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hezbollah during a meeting with Ron Dermer, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs.
A dense layer of smog continued to envelop Indian capital New Delhi, with the air quality index (AQI) remaining in the ‘severe’ category for the fifth consecutive day.
Residents of the provinces of Parwan, Kapisa, and Panjshir have told Salam Watandar that the prevalence of goiter (known locally as “Jaghur”) among women in these areas is increasing.
This report includes interviews with 25 girls and women who have been deprived of education and work, and all of them narrate how their positions in the family and society have been undermined.
Residents of Laghman province, speaking to Salam Watandar, express their concerns as winter approaches, with many of their homes still in ruins from floods, leaving them in desperate need of assistance.
However, Sharafat Zaman Amarkhil, spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate, in a written message to Salam Watandar, said that no positive cases of polio have been registered in Afghanistan this year so far.
At least eight Lebanese citizens have died in air strikes and six Israeli soldiers killed in combat after another day of fighting on Wednesday in Lebanon, as Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah.
As hundreds of Afghan citizens are getting deported from Iran daily, Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the acting minister of Returnees and Refugees, has urged Tehran to stop the forced deportation of Afghans.
Officials from the Ministry of Repatriations and Refugees (MoRR) have stated that before the arrival of winter, after registering and biometric data collection of 5,000 internally displaced families, they will be transferred to their provinces.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League have called for the end of the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon during an emergency meeting in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to create job opportunities for returnee migrants from other countries to Afghanistan.
The annual UN climate summit has begun with nations preparing for tough talks on finance and trade, after a year of weather disasters that have emboldened developing countries in their demands for climate cash.
