Category: Afghanistan

Sept 16 (The Remnants) – Afghanistan needs urgent and sustained support from the international community to prevent a larger humanitarian crisis, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said, warning of global implications if that were to happen. “The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan remains desperate,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a […] Read More

A pregnant woman from California who is stranded in Afghanistan by Joe Biden said the Taliban is hunting Americans now that the US military has withdrawn from the country. Joe Biden left hundreds of American citizens stranded in Kabul, Afghanistan, as he orchestrated the most cowardly and pusillanimous military evacuation in human history. Now that America […] Read More

VATICAN CITY, Sept 5 (The Remnants) – Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was praying that many countries take Afghan refugees and, in an apparent reference to the Taliban’s past restrictions on schooling for women, said it is essential that young Afghans receive an education. “In these moments of upheaval, in which Afghans are […] Read More

Aug 28 (The Remnants) – The United States attacked an Islamic State “planner” in Afghanistan in retaliation for a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport and said there was a high risk of further blasts as it nears the end of a mission to evacuate civilians and withdraw troops. Among the scores killed in Thursday’s suicide […] Read More

The US military has conducted an airstrike against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, jeopardizing a fragile ceasefire and Donald Trump’s much-touted peace roadmap for Afghanistan. A spokesman for US forces said that an airstrike had targeted Taliban fighters in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand, who were “actively attacking” an Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) checkpoint. The Pentagon insisted […] Read More