Image:The Taliban has made large gains in Afghanistan Sky News looks at who theTalibanare, how they have come to power and what they want for Afghanistan. Who are the Taliban? The Taliban, which means "students" in the Pashto language, have been waging an insurgency ...
Although he is known as a mullah, a religious teacher, he is not a cleric. While fighting the Soviets, Omar reportedly lost an eye, which is now stitched shut. After the collapse of the Soviet-backed government in 1992, civil war erupted between various warlords and factions. In an ...
First, President Joe Biden is now all but guaranteed to face off with Donald Trump once again. The White House is ready to use one of the president’s largest platforms of the year to paint 2024 as a stark choice between the two. Setting his opponent aside, the speech comes at a ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been strained by the enormous Palestinian death toll in the fighting —now standing at more than 46,000 dead — and Israel’s blockade of the territory that has left much of Gaza a hellscape where access to food and basic health care is severely limited....
The expected increase in fighting in south east Afghanistan in the coming months following troop surges in the country is likely to further impede access to basic health services for large numbers of civilians, the World Health Organization has warned. Peter J Graaff, the agency's country ...
[…] "It is a failure of German and American politics when the Islamic Republic executes a German citizen who has lived in the United States for decades," criticizes Iran expert Jason Brodsky of the NGO UANI, which campaigns against nuclear armament of the mullah regime. “Ger...
A course of vaccines against polio can protect a child for life Global eradication efforts continue The disease remains endemic in only a few countries – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan Mass vaccination is needed to eradicate polio More than four million Syrians who have relocated to less volati...
The party is now leaning into border security instead of running away from it, as they try to take advantage of Donald Trump’s role in killing a bipartisan Senate bill earlier this year. They've also touted Vice President Kamala Harris' record as an attorney general of a border sta...
Today I found out about a Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II a full 29 years after the Japanese surrendered, because he didn’t know the war was over. Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese citizen that originally worked at a Chinese trading ...
Now Trump is threatening to reverse course, signing an executive order restoring the previous name as soon as Monday. “I’m totally against that,” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters. “It is called Denali, which means the great one. So I would just sugg...