MONITORING (SW) – Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan last month, they have made some commitments to uphold human rights. However, their subsequent actions have “sadly contradicted” those promises, the UN rights chief told a side event of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
KABUL (SW) – Multiple incidents of various crimes remained unchecked in the capital Kabul and elsewhere in the past couple of weeks, locals said.
MONITORING (SW) – President Joe Biden has said US ended 20 years of ‘relentless war’ in Afghanistan and has open a new era of relentless diplomacy.
KABUL (SW) – Analysts fear the potential rise and nurturing of terrorist groups in Afghanistan could pose serious threats to the region and the country.
KABUL (SW) – The Taliban on Tuesday announced names for a number of new cabinet ministers and deputies for their government of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – An editor and reporter associated with Salam Watandar, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, has been assaulted in the capital Kabul.
MONITORING (SW) – The so-called Islamic State or Daesh claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, the group’s Amaaq News Agency said on its Telegram channel on Sunday.
KABUL (SW) – The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has urged the Taliban to allow independent and impartial monitoring of the human rights situation, especially the human rights of women and children throughout the country.
JALALABAD (SW) – Back-to-back blasts in Jalalabad city on Saturday claimed at least three lives and left 21 others wounded.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 153 media organisations have been forced to cease operations as the Taliban’s new regime solidifies in Afghanistan, with women journalists barred from working, telecommunication shutdowns and ever-increasing threats and violence towards media workers.
MONITORING (SW) – The U.S. military retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that a review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not a Daesh terrorist as first believed.
MONITORING (SW) – US envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has blamed former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani for damaging ‘a last-minute deal’ with the Taliban designed to keep Kabul out of their control.
