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Afghan refugees hold placards during their meeting to discuss the situation after President Donald Trump paused the U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Jan. 24, 2025. Credit - Anjum ...
The House report says many U.S. officials in Kabul tried to convey the dire security situation in the months leading up to the withdrawal but that their superiors played down the warnings and ...
September 22 – Iran summons the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy after saying that a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing during a performance of the anthem, days after a similar incident occurred in Pakistan. The Afghan delegate apologizes, claiming that this was because the public ...
[78] [79] The situation reportedly calmed just before dawn. [80] At least three villages in Afghanistan Airukam, Kaga, and Garab were reportedly hit by Pakistani mortar strikes. [81] On the night of 3 January 2025, Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban launched joint raids targeting Pakistani Border Posts, in the Spinwam Area of North Waziristan ...
An Afghan refugee woman gives her fingerprints at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees repatriation center in Azakhel, Nowshera, Pakistan, on October 30, 2023.
The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing low-level [51] [52] guerrilla war [53] [54] between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side, [40] and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the state controlled by the Taliban) on the other side. [55]
The Biden administration is negotiating with Afghanistan to exchange Americans detained in the country for at least one high-profile prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay with alleged ties to former al ...
Afghanistan is a rural country; in 2020, some 80% of its 33 million people lived in the countryside. [122]: 12 This predisposes warfare to rural areas, and provides ample hiding spots for guerrilla fighters. The country also has harsh winters, which favors spring or summertime military offensives after winter lulls in fighting.