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Taliban govt-run corporation takes over luxury Kabul Serena hotel
Feb 2, 2025Afghanistan’s Taliban government took over management of Kabul’s famed Serena hotel on Saturday, a hotel statement said, a luxury property targeted by Taliban attacks during their insurgency. The Kabul Serena Hotel was run for nearly 20... -
Taliban severs ties with Afghan embassies in the West
Jul 30, 2024On Tuesday, the Taliban leadership announced that it was severing connections with numerous Afghan embassies located in Western nations. The diplomats there were allegedly loyal to the nation’s previous democratic administration, according to the Taliban. Many... -
Nicaragua names ambassador to Taliban-run Afghanistan
Jun 24, 2024In an unusual step to strengthen relations with the diplomatically isolated Taliban regime, Nicaragua has chosen an ambassador to Afghanistan, according to local media. Currently serving as Nicaragua’s ambassador to China, Michael Campbell will assume the... -
Afghan Taliban order women’s beauty parlours to shut
Jul 5, 2023Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered beauty salons across the nation to close within a month, according to the vice ministry on Tuesday, the latest restriction on women’s public life. The decision will compel the closure of... -
Taliban provincial governor killed in suicide attack
Jun 7, 2023Several months after the region’s police head was assassinated in a related attack that the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for, the acting governor of an Afghan province was killed by a suicide bomber on Tuesday,... -
Taliban kill IS ‘mastermind’ of Kabul airport attack: US media
Apr 26, 2023According to US authorities, the Taliban leadership executed the alleged planner of a catastrophic suicide bomb strike at Kabul airport during the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in 2021. On August 26, 2021, a bomber detonated... -
The number of Afghans in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million under Taliban rule, UN says
Apr 22, 2023The number of Afghans in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million as the nation was racked by the collapse of the US-backed government and the Taliban takeover, the United Nations said Tuesday. Vast foreign subsidies were... -
UN says 34 million Afghans in poverty under Taliban rule
Apr 19, 2023According to the United Nations, the number of Afghans living in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million as the country was rocked by the collapse of the US-backed government and the Taliban takeover. After the US-backed... -
UN presses Taliban for ‘clarity’ on women’s role in aid delivery
Jan 26, 2023As one official warned that “famine is imminent” during the severe winter, two senior UN chiefs said Wednesday that they were encouraging the Taliban to lift its restrictions on Afghan women, notably a ban on participating... -
Taliban government to sign contract with a Chinese firm to drill for oil in Northern Afghanistan
Jan 7, 2023Afghanistan’s Taliban government is to sign a contract with a Chinese firm to drill for oil in the country’s north. It would be first major energy extraction agreement with a foreign firm since the Taliban took...
