Don’t lose faith in critical aid to our region
I first met Jill Clark in 1997 in Port Moresby. I was working to establish health clinics and she was helping children ...
Foreign aid warning as Coalition mulls overhaul in wake of US, UK cuts
After British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the largest cut to UK foreign aid in history to lift defence spending to ...
Australian Institute of International Affairs27d
Why Australia Should be Watching New Zealand and Cook Islands Closely
In exchange, the PNG government reportedly signed an agreement on “strategic ... Her speech at the UN General Assembly went viral, creating space to talk about the myriad ways the Taliban’s gender ...
GitHub28d
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The Diplomat21d
The Taliban’s Struggle for Legitimacy
The ongoing power struggle between the Kandahari and Kabuli factions of the Taliban has garnered significant attention in post-Soviet media spaces. This internal conflict, which could potentially ...
The Diplomat24d
Tracking Taliban Travel
Most current Taliban officials aren’t subject to U.S. or U.N. sanctions and those that are routinely are granted waivers to travel – with foreign partners often covering the costs. As part of ...
The New York Times6d
He Was Once a Covert Taliban Operative. Now He’s the Friendly Taxman.
As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.
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The Taliban claim Afghan women's rights are protected
The UN has denounced the Taliban’s repeated attacks on women’s rights, with the special representative saying: "We must stand with Afghan women as if our own lives depend on it — because ...
ABC News7d
Taliban insist Afghan women's rights are protected as UN says bans cannot be ignored
The Taliban say Afghan women live in security with their rights protected The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights ...
Long War Journal11d
Anti-Taliban groups conclude fifth Vienna Conference
(Hamid Mohammadi via Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 4.0) On February 18, 2025, various factions of the anti-Taliban resistance wrapped up the fifth Vienna Process Conference for a Democratic Afghanistan, ...
The New York Times26d
The U.S. Can No Longer Ignore the Threat Arising in Afghanistan
Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.
Al Jazeera English26d
Afghanistan’s Taliban makes debut diplomatic trip to Japan
A Taliban delegation has arrived in Japan on what is the first visit by the group that rules Afghanistan, according to media in the East Asian country. The delegation, consisting of foreign ...