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Afghanistan: Are the Taliban still isolated after 4 years?
Deutsche Welle
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August 14, 2025
In August 2021, the government in Kabul collapsed and gave way to the Taliban in wake of the US pulling its forces out of Afghanistan. Four year later, the Taliban seem to have a firm grip on power. So firm, in fact, that some governments,...
Afghanistan faces rising risk of women’s complete exclusion from public life, UN warns
Daryo
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August 14, 2025
Four years after Taliban forces seized Kabul, Afghan women are facing near-total removal from public life, according to new warnings from UN Women and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Source: UNICEF In 2021, Afghan women could...
Why Polio Still Lingers in Afghanistan and Pakistan
TOLONews
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Despite over 40 years of eradication efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO), polio remains in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the last two countries where the wild virus still circulates. According to a detailed Associated Press investigation...
The Ripple Effects of Afghanistan’s Ban on Girls’ Education
Observer Research Foundation
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Image Source: Getty Images On 15 August 2025, Afghanistan completes its fourth year since the Taliban’s return to power. These past years have witnessed sweeping restrictions on human rights, especially in the form of the systematic denial of...
‘Irish people have shown us kindness’: Afghan exiles on life in Ireland after the Taliban
The Irish Times
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In August 2021, the Taliban retook control of Kabul, the Afghan capital, ending two decades of relative freedom there, particularly for women. Girls’ schools were closed, women were forced out of workplaces, and public life narrowed under growing...
UNICEF and WFP Joint Action Plan to Stop Child Wasting in Afghanistan
World Food Programme
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New strategic shift aims to move beyond emergency response to community-based prevention efforts. Kabul, Afghanistan – UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) today launch a joint action plan to stop child wasting in Afghanistan, marking a...
International Doctors Keep This Brooklyn Hospital Running. Visa Whiplash Has Jeopardized That.
The City - New York
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August 14, 2025
Support local news today! Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Tsyunchyk was just...
Emergency: U.S. Aid Cuts Worsened Afghanistan’s Poor Healthcare Situation
TOLONews
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The international humanitarian organization Emergency has reported that improvement in Afghanistan’s healthcare situation seems unlikely. The organization cited the lack of recognition of the caretaker government, the budget cuts by the Trump...
World News | Pakistan Steps Up Crackdown on Undocumented Afghan Migrants in Peshawar
Latestly
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August 14, 2025
Peshawar [Pakistan], August 14 (ANI): Pakistani authorities have ramped up a sweeping crackdown against undocumented Afghan migrants in Peshawar, detaining large numbers of individuals without valid legal documents, Khaama Press reported, citing...
2 killed, 6 injured in road accident in W. Afghanistan
Xinhua News Agency
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KABUL, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Two passengers lost their lives and six others were injured when their vehicle veered off the road and flipped in western Afghanistan's Badghis province, the provincial police said on Thursday. The mishap occurred...
After 4 years of repressive Taliban rule, Afghans are suffering in silence. Is the world still watching?
The Conversation
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August 14, 2025
On August 15 2021, Afghanistan’s democratic republic collapsed. As the last US and NATO troops departed the country, the Taliban swept back into power and the Afghan people braced for an uncertain future. Despite promises of moderation and...
Pakistan can extend CPEC to Afghanistan, Iran and beyond: China
The News International
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August 14, 2025
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong on Wednesday said the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would continue to be the “backbone” of Pakistan’s geo-economic transformation, aligning with the country’s development...
Four Years On, UN Says Taliban Close To 'Erasing' Afghan Women From Public Life
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
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August 13, 2025
Four years after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, the United Nations says the ultra-conservative group "is closer than ever to achieving its vision of a society that completely erases women from public life." Since returning to power on...
‘Health champions’: Local women lead the fight against polio in Nigeria
Al Jazeera
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August 13, 2025
Abuja and Nasarawa, Nigeria – In the neighbourhood of Kado Lifecamp on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, 29-year-old Eucharia Joseph grips a cooler box and sets out for her day. Inside are oral polio vaccines packed in ice. Joseph’s route takes...
Afghan women under Taliban rule code their way to a brighter future
The Item - South Carolina
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By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan - One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country's new Taliban government imposed a stranglehold on women's...
VA hospitals in crisis! Audit exposes every center faces severe staffing shortages - are veterans at risk?
The Economic Times
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August 13, 2025
VA hospital staffing crisis under Donald Trump: VA hospitals across the country are facing a full-blown crisis, with every single medical center reporting severe staffing shortages as internal records reveal a rising urgent concern about the care...
Why will the PACT Act have the greatest impact on veterans' benefits and healthcare?
MARCA
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August 13, 2025
The Department of Veteran Affairs healthcare and disability benefits is going through a significant expansion called the PACT Act, officially named the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act....
Afghan Refugees
The Nation
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August 13, 2025
The Afghan refugees, and other Afghans in Pakistan without passports and visas, are finally being repatriated. For the registered refugees, there is a grace period until the end of August, after which they will be deported. The Afghan refugees...
Emergency Warns of Health Crisis in Afghanistan
Khaama Press
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August 13, 2025
Emergency warns millions in Afghanistan lack essential healthcare as economic collapse, women’s restrictions, and resource shortages intensify, four years after government collapse and foreign troop withdrawal. The international medical aid group...
The Afghan hospital worker abducted and gang-raped for doing her job
Rukhshana Media
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August 13, 2025
By Haniya Frotan A hospital worker in Afghanistan has told Rukhshana Media how she was abducted by the Taliban, held captive and gang-raped over several days before being abandoned in the desert and left to die, in what she believes was a...