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Afghanistan, One Defeat Breeds Another | By Alain Gresh
Kabul has fallen, and it took the Taliban only a few weeks to sweep away the Afghan army, which had been financed and trained...
Economic and humanitarian challenges loom in Afghanistan
Afghanistan: UN agencies sound alarm over emergency aid supply logjam
23 August 2021
photo: © UNICEF/Monique Awad
UN humanitarian agencies are warning that they are unable to...
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
By Jonathan Nancy
Aug. 17, 2021
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States....
Anti-Taliban fighters claim victories as first stirrings of armed resistance emerge
By Ezzatullah Mehrdad, Sudarsan Raghavan
Aug 21, 2021
Local anti-Taliban commanders claimed in interviews they had killed as many as 30 of the group’s fighters and...
Rich and white “feminists” for war in Afghanistan
Afghan women never asked for US air strikes.
By Rafia Zakaria
August 17, 2021
On a March evening in 1999, a wealthy Hollywood socialite named Mavis Leno,...
‘Don’t leave Afghan people alone,’ refugee in Greece pleads
August 17, 2021
Elena, an Afghan asylum seeker who lives in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, worries about friends and family...
Le Front de mères organise un Front de mai
Le Front de mai c'est un mois dédié aux mères et à leurs enfants, pendant lequel nous allons organiser des ateliers, conférences, rassemblements, piques-niques...
Women’s rights: Outrage as Erdogan pulls Turkey out of European treaty...
21/03/2021
Turkey has withdrawn from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first to sign 10 years ago, provoking a...
Opposing UK Police Bill must be based on class, not gender...
By Thomas Scripps
20 March 2021
Boris Johnson’s Conservative UK government is rushing the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill through Parliament. The legislation prepares a...
Japan, depression and suicides
Japan appointed ‘ministry of loneliness’. Want to know why?
February 23, 2021
Japan is moving rapidly in the field of technology on one hand. On the...