New York, 23 June - Slovenia called on the Taliban in Afghanistan to stop discriminating practices against women, as the UN Security Council discussed the situation in the country on Monday. The rest of this news item is available to subscribers. The news …
Congress’s Afghanistan War Commission holds a public hearing at 8:30 a.m. ET on June 23. Expert witnesses who served in senior military, intelligence, diplomatic, and policy roles during the administration of former President Barack Obama, as well as …
Roza Otunbayeva, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said the ongoing missile attacks between Iran and Israel are already having a tangible impact. “This conflict is already having an …
The wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan have been highly profitable for U.S. defense contractors, driven by over $14 trillion in Pentagon spending since 2001. According to Hartung (2021), one-third to one-half of this amount went to private contractors, …
In one month, 310 people in Afghanistan died of infectious diseases including measles, respiratory infections, Crimean-Congo fever, and diarrhea. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 310 people in Afghanistan died from infectious diseases in …
The Afghanistan War Commission holds a hearing in the Senate on Monday, June 23. America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan came to an ignoble end in 2021 with Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country. Billions of dollars or weapons and equipment were …
Aid, Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Economy & Trade, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Food Sustainability, Food Systems, Health, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Children receiving humanitarian aid …
At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama’s troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members were deployed to the country at a given time. At least some of those troops were gleaning insights from their vantage point on …
&
