Afghanistan

Taliban call for lifting of sanctions on Afghanistan

Mar 04, 2022 06:09

The Taliban have called on the international community to lift its sanctions on Afghanistan shortly after the United Nations warns about the country’s ‘irreversible’ economic collapse.
So this is what it looks like when the corporate media opposes a war

Mar 03, 2022 14:55

Major American media outlets oppose military aggression...unless the United States is doing it.
Afghanistan on brink of 'irreversible' economic collapse: UN envoy

Mar 03, 2022 07:29

Humanitarian agencies may have distributed enough aid to Afghanistan to prevent large-scale famine and starvation, but the economic challenges have left the country on the brink of “irreversible” ruin, the UN envoy to Kabul says.
US would not have chosen 'embarrassing' Afghanistan pullout if it could, Iran FM tells Press TV

Feb 27, 2022 09:26

Iranian Foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has dismissed US claims that the withdrawal from Afghanistan had all been planned beforehand, saying they would not have opted for such an "embarrassing" pullout if they had other choices.
Biden hammers a $7 billion nail into Afghanistan’s coffin

Feb 25, 2022 16:35

Letting Afghanistan slide into total economic and social ruin will have devastating consequences.
Iran proposes joint investment programs in Afghanistan

Feb 23, 2022 12:35

Iran's special envoy for Afghanistan has expressed Tehran’s readiness for joint investment programs in various fields in the neighboring country.
Ex-British FM: West has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan

Feb 21, 2022 09:32

Former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says the West has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country.
US is effectively stealing billions from a nation ravaged by a US-initiated war

Feb 20, 2022 14:16

The Biden administration is threatening the well-being of millions of Afghans, while also undermining the ability of civil society organizations to respond to the crisis.
Massive folly: Biden’s 2023 defense budget could top $800 billion

Feb 20, 2022 06:29

Sources in the Pentagon have told Reuters that the Biden administration is poised to propose a budget for national defense that could top $800 billion for FY 2023, an enormous sum that far exceeds the levels reached at the peaks of the Korean and Vietnam wars or during the Reagan buildup of the 1980s.
UN food agency says 95% of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat

Feb 20, 2022 05:49

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) says 95 percent of people in Afghanistan “do not have enough to eat,” as the United States has frozen Afghan government assets worth billions of dollars and international sanctions against the ruling Taliban have plunged the Asian country into a full-blown economic crisis.