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When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a strategy she picked up in a seminar on mental health at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. She makes a mental note to deal with the issues at a scheduled time […]
Islamabad CNN — The first time he flew his cargo plane through the clouds over his hometown of Kabul, Tauheed Khan swelled with pride. “I flew over my childhood home,” he told CNN, on a quiet spring morning in the Pakistani capital . . .
A group of more than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban regime to study in Oman say they are at risk of imminent deportation to Afghanistan after their U.S.-funded scholarship . . .
Uzbekistan has transferred to the US seven Black Hawk helicopters that Afghan army pilots flew to the Central Asian state while fleeing the Taliban in 2021, American diplomatic sources have said. Kabul demanded the helicopters be sent back to Afghanistan, while US President Donald Trump has urged the Taliban to return American weapons to Washington. […]
<!—-> 6 February, 2025 Afghan UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Photo: Rahman Gul (AP) Uzbekistan has transferred part of the UH60 Black Hawk helicopters, overtaken by Afghan pilots in 2021, to the United States. The Uzbek branch of the Voice of America reported on this. In 2021, when the Taliban seized power in Kabul, Afghan pilots […]
WASHINGTON — Seven Black Hawk helicopters, which were flown to Uzbekistan by Afghan pilots during the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, have been returned to the United States, according to Uzbek media reports. The return of the aircraft was revealed during an event at the Uzbek Embassy in Washington, marking the 33rd anniversary of Uzbekistan’s Armed […]
The watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan said the Taliban have no legal right to billions of dollars in funding set aside for the country because they are not recognized as its
The collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, revealed what little American lives and money had purchased over 20 years there. It also laid bare a gaping disconnect between reality and what senior U.S. officials had been telling Americans for decades: that success was just around the corner. As the special […]
The Taliban were inching closer, encroaching on land that had once seemed secure, the American officer warned. Four of his men had just been killed, and he needed Afghans willing to fight back. “Who will stand up?” the officer implored a crowd of 150 Afghan elders. The people in Kunduz Province were largely supportive of […]
The FBI arrested a man from Afghanistan who was allegedly planning an Election Day terrorist attack in the U.S. Federal prosecutors charged Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi with planning the attack in support of ISIS. He was arrested Monday in Oklahoma City. According to court records, he made his initial appearance in federal court Tuesday, but did not enter […]