Topic: Afghanistan
Ilhan Omar blasts ‘unconscionable’ Biden plan to seize Afghan assets
Brett Wilkins
As U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar on Friday led condemnation of a reported Biden administration plan to permanently seize $7 billion of currently frozen...
Oslo talks; West presses Taliban on rights, girls education
Western diplomats have told the Taliban that humanitarian aid to Afghanistan will be tied to an improvement in human rights.
Holding $9 billion, US offers $300 million as Afghan starve
The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will contribute roughly $308 million to humanitarian assistance efforts in Afghanistan, where millions are on the brink of starvation and at...
US to offer ‘condolence payments’ to kins of 10 Afghan civilians killed in drone strike
The Pentagon said Friday that the U.S. would issue "condolence payments" to relatives of 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, killed in an August drone strike—an attack...
Explosion hits Afghanistan Shia mosque; toll rises to 47
At least 47 people have been killed and 70 others wounded after an explosion went off inside a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar.
Heroes or parasites: Europe’s self-serving politics on refugees
Ramzy Baroud
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay...
