Tag: Afghan
Boris Johnson on Afghan animal evacuation claims
Boris Johnson has dismissed claims he was involved in the evacuation of animals from Afghanistan last year as "total rhubarb".The PM said he had no pa [...]
Boris Johnson authorised Afghan animal evacuation, leaked email suggests
Boris Johnson has previously dismissed as "nonsense" claims he intervened to help an animal charity.
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C.I.A.-Backed Afghan Fighters Are Still Waiting to Reach U.S.
WASHINGTON — During the frantic evacuation from Afghanistan in August, the American troops securing the Kabul airport against suicide bombers and othe [...]
More Sept. 11 Victims Who Sued the Taliban Want Frozen Afghan Funds
WASHINGTON — A fight is breaking out among lawyers for different groups of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks over who can try to sei [...]
With No Resources, Authority or Country, Afghan Ambassador Presses On
It was a sentiment with particular piquancy given the failure of Afghan forces to stave off the collapse of their country in the end, and given the [...]
Taliban and 9/11 Families Fight for Billions in Frozen Afghan Funds
WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years ago, about 150 family members of Sept. 11 victims sought a measure of justice for their losses by suing a list of targ [...]
For Afghan Refugees, a Choice Between Community and Opportunity
FREMONT, Ca. — Harris Mojadedi’s parents fled Afghanistan’s communist revolution four decades ago and arrived as refugees in this San Francisco sub [...]
U.S. Struggles With Afghan Evacuees Weeded Out in Vetting and Now in Limbo
But the United States took them to military bases in Persian Gulf countries and Europe for scrutiny. At these transit zones, known as “lily pads,” [...]
Detention of an Afghan at Guantánamo Bay Is Ruled Unlawful
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled that the United States has no legal basis for holding an Afghan man at Guantánamo Bay because although he fo [...]
Bitcoin Won’t Save the Afghan People
Over the past few years, the residents of countries in financial distress have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency. In Kenya, Nigeria, the Philip [...]
How 3 Strangers a World Away Came to the Rescue of a Badly Burned Afghan Girl
Asma told her family she wanted to be a doctor. They asked her what kind. A children’s doctor?Not just any doctor, Asma told them, pointing an inde [...]
How 3 Strangers a World Away Came to the Rescue of a Badly Burned Afghan Girl
Asma told her family she wanted to be a doctor. They asked her what kind. A children’s doctor?Not just any doctor, Asma told them, pointing an inde [...]
E.U. Pledges $1.15 Billion in Afghan Aid as U.S. Talks to Taliban
WASHINGTON — World leaders met virtually on Tuesday to discuss ways of preventing an economic and humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, but the Bid [...]
Lawmakers Press to Rescue Afghan Relatives of U.S. Troops
WASHINGTON — More than a month after a frenzied U.S. effort to evacuate thousands facing retribution from the Taliban in Afghanistan, members of Co [...]