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Merkel calls withdrawal from Afghanistan a 'terrible failure'

The former German chancellor was the last witness to testify before a parliamentary inquiry committee on the German military's role in the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan during the Taliban's takeover of Kabul in 2021.

Health news

EU condemns reported Taliban ban on women's medical education

Female trainee midwives and nurses have reportedly been ordered not to attend classes by the Taliban, who have restricted Afghan women's rights.

Azerbaijan

Afghanistan's Taliban to attend their first UN climate conference

The Taliban will attend a U.N. climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the environment agency said on Sunday.

World News

Euroviews. Is hunger the deadliest weapon of modern conflict?

The scale of starvation internationally is a testament to our collective failure so far to deliver on our obligations to our fellow humans, Chef Andrés Torres writes.

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Austria to team up with Germany in joint deportations to Afghanistan

Austria's Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has said that deportations to Afghanistan are permissible on a case-by-case basis due to the "changed security situation" in the country.

Europe News

Scholz supports deportations of Afghan 'convicted criminals'

The deportations come a week after a deadly knife attack in the town of Solingen which left three people dead and eight others wounded.

Germany

Germany deports Afghan nationals for first time since Taliban takeover

The deportations occurred a week after a deadly knife attack in the town of Solingen, of which the suspect is a Syrian citizen.

Afghanistan

UN denounces Taliban's ban on women's voices being heard in public

The Taliban’s ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top UN official said Sunday.

France

Olympics: Refugee breaker disqualified for saying 'Free Afghan Women'

Political statements and slogans are banned on the field of play and on podiums at the Olympics.

Afghanistan

Heavy seasonal rain triggers flooding in Afghanistan, at least 68 dead

At least 50 people have been reported dead in the hard-hit western province of Ghor, according to local authorities after unusually heavy seasonal rain.

Afghanistan

Floods kill more than 300 people in northern Afghanistan, UN says

Flash floods from unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 1,000 houses, the U.N. food agency said Saturday.

Travel News

The Taliban is working to attract tourists to Afghanistan

Tour companies are grappling with the country's treatment of women.

Health news

Over 281 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2023, UN says

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report is “a roll call of human failings,” and that “in a world of plenty, children are starving to death".

Afghanistan

Euroviews. How many more years will Afghan girls lose to Taliban oppression?

Afghanistan has dropped off the news agenda, but the violence and oppression continue — and for too many of us Afghan women, no matter how loud we shout, it feels like the world has stopped listening, Meetra Qutb writes.

Afghanistan

Euroviews. This Ramadan, Muslim world can end gender apartheid in Afghanistan

The Taliban's authority hinges on their purported adherence to Islamic law. However, that is based on a fundamentally flawed, selective and extreme interpretation of Islamic texts, meaning their policies are against their own stated principles, Dr Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al Issa writes.

Afghanistan

More than 1 million girls barred from Afghanistan's new school year

Having stormed back to power in 2021, Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime has restored many of the draconian policies it enforced in the 1990s.

Afghanistan

Two dead and four survivors following a plane crash in Afghanistan

The Taliban announced on Monday that two people died and four others were rescued following the crash of a private Russian jet carrying six over the weekend in Afghanistan.

World News

Russian private jet carrying 6 people crashes in Afghanistan

The Taliban’s Transportation and Civil Aviation Ministry say they believe some of those onboard survived.

Culture news

Euroviews. Afghanistan’s art and artists are on the brink of obliteration

We urge both UNHCR and individual governments that have ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention to acknowledge the inherent vulnerability of Afghan artists and cultural workers at risk under Taliban rule, and as such, accord them prima facie refugee recognition, Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston write.

Afghanistan

Powerful earthquake shakes west Afghanistan a week after devastating quakes hit same region

A new 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Sunday, following several tremors in the region since the beginning of the month, including a devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people.