ISKP, an Afghanistan affiliate of ISIL, had claimed responsibility for deadly attack on Kabul airport last year. The reward offered by the US State Department on Monday also covers any information that could lead to the arrest of individuals responsible for last year’s deadly bombing at Kabul airport, which was claimed by the ISIL group in Khorasan Province, ISKP. The …
"I was working for the Defense Ministry. "Why would anyone do that," Ghafari asks rhetorically, explaining that many women simply have no choice: As single mothers and the sole bread-earners of the family, they have been particularly affected by the Taliban's ban on work for women. The regime has also banned women from showing their faces on all kinds of …
Nearly three months after the Taliban illegitimately wrested power, Afghanistan is at the edge of abyss. It is becoming clear that Taliban 2.0 are going to be worse, as their worldview remains unchanged, rooted in medieval ideologies especially, on the crucial issue of women rights. Though in the first Taliban news conference after the group regained control of the Afghan …
“I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. And they will come for people like me and kill me,” Zarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan's first and youngest female mayor said after the militant group took control of the country on Sunday. Read: New leadership, resurgence and conquest: Decoding Taliban food chain after Mullah Omar’s demise In her interview with an international daily …
