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  • Final US Report On Afghan Mission Paints Damning Picture August 1, 2025
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Taliban flog man in Kapisa for alleged ‘propaganda’ against their rule

3rd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Amu: Taliban publicly flogged a man in Kapisa province after accusing him of spreading “propaganda” against their rule, according to a statement from the Taliban-run Supreme Court. Rights advocates say the punishments are part of a wider pattern of repression. “The Taliban are using religion and Sharia as tools to silence dissent,” said one analyst. Click here to read more (external link).

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Kapisa, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Police State |

ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say

3rd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

WP: Two former Afghan interpreters for U.S. forces face deportation despite following immigration processes, according to attorneys for the men. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Asylum, deportations, US betrayal of Afghans |

Tolo News in Dari – August 3, 2025

3rd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |

Sources: Gunmen kill young man from Panjshir in Kabul

2nd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Amu: The victim, identified as Samiullah from Hesa Awal district of Panjshir, was attacked in the city’s 11th district while attending to personal matters, the sources said. The assailants fled after the shooting. The incident comes amid a series of targeted killings of Panjshir residents in Kabul. Just a day earlier, another man from the province was reportedly killed by Taliban forces, while a young Panjshiri athlete also died under suspicious circumstances in the capital. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, Security | Tags: Panjshir, Taliban Security Failure |

UNICEF: Measles Has Killed 357 Children in Afghanistan in Six Months

2nd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Khaama: UNICEF reports measles has killed 357 children in Afghanistan in just six months, warning over 12 million children urgently need aid amid worsening health and malnutrition crises. UNICEF warns Afghanistan is facing a worsening humanitarian emergency, with measles killing at least 357 children in the first half of 2025 and over 12 million needing urgent aid. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Afghan Children, Health News | Tags: Measles |

Tolo News in Dari – August 2, 2025

2nd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |

Tribal Jirga Tells TTP Militants To Leave Civilian Areas Or Return To Afghanistan

2nd August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud

Afghanistan International: The first round of talks between the Bajaur Peace Jirga and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) concluded on Friday, 2 August, with tribal elders urging militants to withdraw from civilian areas or return to Afghanistan. Pakistani officials estimate that approximately 4,000 TTP fighters are operating from within Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Taliban blowback, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |

Final US Report On Afghan Mission Paints Damning Picture

1st August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

By Ray Furlong
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
August 2, 2025

A US body set up in 2008 to assess efforts to support Afghanistan has made its 68th and final quarterly report to Congress — with damning details of waste and “pervasive corruption” over the course of the nearly 20-year Western intervention as well as concerns about Trump administration aid cuts.

The report was issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a government agency, on July 30, two weeks before the fourth anniversary of the Taliban retaking power in Afghanistan.

In a section titled “End-Of-Mission Highlights,” it says the Western-backed Afghan government sometimes didn’t even want projects that the United States proposed.

“For example, SIGAR found that most of the buildings at five Afghan Border Police facilities costing $26 million were either unoccupied or being used for unintended purposes, including one used as a chicken coop,” it says.

The 99-page report notes that it is the final installment in a highly detailed series that charted the ups and downs of the US-led mission in Afghanistan, as US aid for the country is being wound up.

“If you followed those reports, you were clearly aware where it was going and how it would end,” veteran Afghanistan analyst Thomas Ruttig told RFE/RL.

“Politicians chose to ignore this and continue to give us good messages from Afghanistan until the troops had to flee in August 2021. It’s a very valuable archive of data on what went wrong in Afghanistan. It would have been much better if donors and particularly the US government would have acted on it,” he added.

Elsewhere, the report states that Western countries and global institutions flooded Afghanistan with money that fueled corruption, which US officials overlooked as they “prioritized security and political goals.”

Ruttig, who worked in Afghanistan for the United Nations, the European Union, and Germany in a series of stints from 2000-2006, agreed with this assessment of Western engagement.

“There was an awareness that [corruption] is a big problem, but it collided with the political strategy and took only second rank,” he said. “Security won.”

Trump’s Afghanistan Policy

But the final SIGAR report is not only a lookback at the mission as a whole.

It also underlines the humanitarian impact of the Trump administration’s decisions to cut aid to Afghanistan and says the State Department did not explain why specific programs were being terminated.

“State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), told SIGAR they were not informed why individual awards had been canceled, nor were they involved in the decision-making process,” the report noted.

RFE/RL has asked the State Department to respond to this and other elements of the report.

SIGAR says Washington “terminated all foreign assistance awards with activities in Afghanistan” in April.

This followed an Executive Order in January that said “The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values.”

Within days, the Trump administration began moves to rapidly dismantle USAID, which was the primary U.S. government agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

The SIGAR report also notes “conflicting reports” of Taliban efforts to seize assets, including military vehicles, from USAID operations being wound down in Afghanistan this year.

“USAID noted that heavily armored units from the Taliban general directorate of intelligence forcibly entered implementing partner compounds on multiple occasions, seizing equipment, cash, and project documentation,” it said, adding that staff had been detained and interrogated.

But this contradicted official information from Washington, SIGAR said.

“Both State PRM and PM/WRA (Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement) said their implementing partners have not reported any Taliban demands for assets, data, or staff personal information, and, as previously noted, State F (Office of Foreign Assistance) declined to answer any of SIGAR’s questions this quarter,” the report stated.

The issue is sensitive, with US President Donald Trump demanding the Taliban hand over military equipment left behind by US forces in 2021.

“Afghanistan is one of the biggest sellers of military equipment in the world, you know why? They’re selling the equipment that we left,” Trump said in January. “We want our military equipment back.”

SIGAR will cease operations in September.

Before then, it will produce one more report looking at how lessons learned in Afghanistan, Gaza, Syria, and elsewhere can be applied to future situations where aid missions face interference in undemocratic countries.

Copyright (c) 2025. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
Posted in Corruption, History, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: US failure in Afghanistan |

Targeted Taliban Morality Police In Kabul, Says Resistance Group

1st August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Afghanistan International: The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has claimed responsibility for an armed attack on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul, where members of the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were reportedly stationed. In a statement released late Thursday, 31 July, the AFF said the assault took place in the Chilston area of Kabul’s Police District 7. The group claimed that three Taliban fighters were killed and two members of the Taliban’s so-called morality police were wounded. According to the AFF, the Taliban personnel at the checkpoint had been stopping vehicles and harassing civilians, prompting the targeted operation. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Afghanistan Freedom Front, Anti-Taliban Resistance | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Kabul |

Tariffs On Afghan Imports Rise To 15 Percent In Latest Trump Trade Move

1st August, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

Donald Trump

Afghanistan International: The new tariff structure was published just hours before the 1 August deadline for trade negotiations and agreements with foreign governments. Under the updated policy, countries with a trade deficit with the United States, including Afghanistan, will now face a base tariff rate of 15 percent. The previous 10 percent rate will remain in place only for countries that maintain a trade surplus with the US. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Economic News, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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