For more than four decades, Afghanistan’s poppy fields fueled the world’s heroin trade. The crop spread across ungoverned pockets of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, thriving through the wars that began with the Soviet invasion in 1979 and ended with NATO’s withdrawal in 2021. Since retaking power in 2021, Taliban authorities have enforced a sweeping ban […]
A powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late Sunday, killing at least 812 people and injuring more than 2,800, according to the Taliban-run government. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0-magnitude quake hit about 17 miles from Jalalabad, with damage reported in Nangahar, Konar and Laghman provinces. Rescuers ferried survivors to Jalalabad Airport as villages reported […]
U.S. humanitarian aid cuts since January have left hospitals unable to serve patients and hunger surging across Afghanistan, leading critics to charge that America has again abandoned the country and urging policymakers to reverse course. According to a Wall Street Journal report, operations at more than 420 health facilities had been suspended or terminated by […]
More than three years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the debate over the military equipment left behind has resurfaced. With Pakistan urging Washington to address the flow of American-made arms now in Taliban hands, calls have intensified for the return or reclamation of these weapons. But the argument that the United States should reclaim […]
Pakistan has every right to expect Afghanistan to take responsibility for its own citizens. Over the past week alone, more than 8,900 Afghans have been deported from Pakistan as part of an intensified campaign to repatriate illegal migrants, according to the UN Refugee Agency. This is not a surprise. Pakistan has been signaling its intent […]
