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Published by Al-Araby Afghanistan’s economy is set to contract up to 30 percent this year and this is likely to further fuel a refugee crisis that will impact neighbouring countries, Turkey and Europe, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. With non-humanitarian aid halted and foreign assets largely frozen after the Taliban seized power in […]

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed at preventing a Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Khalilzad defended his record but acknowledged that he came up short and […]

Published by Knewz By alang.consultant DO BANDI, LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Knewz) – At first glance; it appears a region so remote – set upon lush, streaming valleys without roads and unreachable by regular vehicles – that it must have been untouched by the decades of brutal conflict that masticated much of Afghanistan. But delve a […]

Published by Al-Araby Arriving in New Delhi last month for a two-day official visit, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held extensive meetings with the Indian Minister for External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval, and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Though bilateral coordination in economic and security matters […]

Published by Al-Araby Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban as a schoolgirl, has urged Afghanistan’s new rulers to let girls return to school. It has been one month since the Taliban, which seized power in August, excluded girls from returning to secondary school while ordering boys back to […]