More than 840,000 Afghans who applied for a resettlement program aimed at people who helped the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan are still there waiting, according to a report that lays out the challenges with a program intended to help America’s allies in the two-decade long conflict. Source: 840,000 Afghans who’ve applied for key U.S. […]
By Holly Bancroft ‘Going sightseeing is not a must for women’, Taliban minister says Source: Taliban bans women from visiting Afghanistan national park Category: Asia, World
By Shi Jiangtao China has been reluctant to fill the void left by the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, with pundits citing ‘no illusions about great influence over the Taliban’ and lingering security risks Source: Why China is still on the sidelines in Afghanistan, 2 years after messy US troop pull-out