MONITORING (SW) – Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional grouping comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan – should bolster their cooperation, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday.
KABUL (SW) – Thomas West, the US State Department’s special envoy for Afghanistan, has said the Islamic Emirate was repeating a mistake that denied them a chance to rule the country in 2001.
KABUL (SW) – After months of almost no access to medical services, the World Health Organization joined a team that transported by air essential medicines for the most inaccessible communities of Darwaz Districts in Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan on 15 February.
KABUL (SW) – White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki has said no assets of the Da Afghanistan Bank would be paid to the families of 9/11 victims without a US court ruling.
MONITORING (SW) – Six months since the shift in power in Afghanistan, humanitarian needs across the country have skyrocketed. 97 per cent of the population is expected to be living well below the poverty line by the second half of this year.
ASSADABAD (SW) – Local sources in Kunar have confirmed that Pakistani forces have fired mortar shells at part of this province a day earlier.
MONITORING (SW) – Britain said on Tuesday it would co-host an international aid conference with the United Nations next month to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled since the Taliban took power last year.
KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate has warned Washington of reciprocal policy moves against the US President Joe Biden’s announcement of splitting Afghanistan’s state reserves.
BAMYAN (SW) – The deputy minister for commerce, Abdul Lateef Nazari has urged the Bamyan residents during his trip to the province to cooperate and reconcile with the Islamic Emirate’s government.
KABUL (SW) – This year’s Valentine Day celebrations were muted as youth avoided marking it in the public in the wake of the rise to power by the Islamic Emirate.
MONITORING (SW) – Amid ongoing condemnation of the US over split of Afghan state funds by the President Joe Biden, the Chinese foreign ministry too has criticized Washington over the move.
FAIZABAD (SW) – A woman has been picked for the first time since the recent developments in the country by the Islamic Emirate to represent the Badakhshan women.
