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Neighborhood News Digest – 28 September 2023

Afghanistan UN to declare gender apartheid as mental health of Afghan women worsens – Business Standard The UN's most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on...

Neighborhood News Digest – 26 September 2023

Afghanistan Muttaqi Travels to Russia To Participate in Moscow Format Meeting – Tolo News A delegation from the Islamic Emirate led by the acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi went to Russia on Monday to participate in the Moscow Format meeting...

Afghanistan and Central Asia: The Canal Conundrum

In 2021, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in an attempted military takeover that overthrew the country’s officially recognised government. The Taliban encountered little resistance in retaking control of Kabul in less unusual circumstances...

Neighborhood News Digest – 22 September 2023

Afghanistan US, Islamic Emirate Hold Talks on Narcotics in Doha – Tolo News Karen Decker, the Chargé d'Affaires of the US Mission to Afghanistan, said on X that she met with the “Taliban delegation” in Doha and held technical talks on “counter-...

Neighborhood News Digest – 20 September 2023

Afghanistan Taliban urged to uphold Afghan girls’ right to education – UN News The international community must ensure that every girl in Afghanistan has an opportunity to learn, the head of the UN fund for education in emergencies said on Monday –...

Neighborhood News Digest – 15 September 2023

Afghanistan Taliban welcome first Chinese ambassador since takeover – Independent The Taliban extended a grand welcome to China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan on Wednesday, confirming Beijing’s diplomatic acceptance of the caretaker rulers. China...

Neighborhood News Digest – 14 September 2023

Afghanistan China becomes first country to send envoy to Afghanistan after Taliban takeover – Wion Recently appointed Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan, Zhao Sheng, presented his credentials to Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Hassan Akhund in the...

Neighborhood News Digest – 13 September 2023

Afghanistan 'Afghanistan headed for civil war with Taliban splitting into...:' Ex-commander – India Today Two years after the US forces abruptly left Kabul, Afghanistan is headed towards a civil war, the Taliban is now riddled with factionalism, and...

Neighborhood News Digest – 29 August 2023

Afghanistan Iran FM in Phone Call with Muttaqi Discussed Helmand Water Rights – Tolo News Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, in a conversation with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting foreign minister, discussed Iran's water rights from...

Neighborhood News Digest – 28 August 2023

Afghanistan Women Banned From Visiting Band-e-Amir National Park – Tolo News Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, the acting Minister of Virtue and Vice, asked all religious clerics and security agencies to forbid women from visiting Band-e-Amir National Park...

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