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‘Feeling of betrayal’: Afghans await US response on parole

Thousands of Afghans remain stranded, with few signs of action by US President Joe Biden’s administration.

Al Jazeera

Afghan humanitarian crisis: Hospitals face shortages of staff, medicine and funding

Six months after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the health system is collapsing. Amid the deteriorating humanitarian situation, a raging measles outbreak has already killed more than 150 people and infected tens of thousands more in January alone. Measles is not the only sanitary threat facing young children in the…

France 24

Hundreds of Afghan women’s rights activists urge Biden to take action over killings and abductions

Afghan campaigners are asking the US to support a global treaty tackling violence against women and girls

The Independent UK

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UK to co-host UN summit in bid to raise £3bn-plus for Afghanistan aid

The Foreign Secretary said it was a ‘critical moment’ for the international community to show support for the Taliban-held country.

The Independent UK

Why Democrats won't oppose war

Democrats always make the best salespeople for war — a dire lesson Americans may have to learn all over again

Salon

Britain to co-host Afghanistan aid summit, hoping to raise $4.4 billion

Britain said on Tuesday it would co-host an international aid conference with the United Nations next month to help raise funds for Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled since the Taliban took power last year.

Reuters

Commentary: Joe Biden’s $7 billion betrayal of Afghanistan

Out of all the actions the Biden administration could have taken on Afghanistan, commandeering the nation’s foreign currency reserves is, to put it mildly, unhelpful.

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Six Months of Taliban: Afghans Safer, Poorer, Less Hopeful

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule. The country feels safer, less violent than it has in decades, but the once aid-fueled economy is barreling toward collapse. Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled or have been evacuated, including large numbers of the educated…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gulf Countries Urge against Afghanistan Being Used to Launch Terror Attacks

Representatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held talks with a Taliban delegation, led by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Qatar’s capital, Doha, on Monday. They discussed the situation in Afghanistan and means to address the challenges facing humanitarian work in the country. GCC officials expressed concern that “terrorist…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Six months of Taliban: Afghans safer, poorer, less hopeful

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule

The Independent UK

Long-term refugee targets ‘would help west regain moral purpose’

Under former Tory MP Rory Stewart’s plans, countries would take in an agreed number of refugees annually

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan letting India deliver wheat to hungry Afghanistan

Pakistan is allowing nuclear rival India to deliver tons of wheat to ease food shortages in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

'My heart and body shake': Afghan women defy Taliban

KABUL: One after the other, quickly, carefully, keeping their heads down, a group of Afghan women step into a small Kabul apartment block -- risking their lives as a nascent resistance against the Taliban.

Bangkok Post

Taliban call on Biden to reverse move to halve frozen Afghan funds

The Taliban on Monday warned that it would reconsider its policy towards the United States if President Joe Biden did not reverse his "unjustified" decision to return only half of Afghanistan's $7 billion deposited on U.S. soil.

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Gulf envoys stress women’s rights in meeting with Taliban FM

Ambassadors from Gulf countries meet the Afghan foreign minister as he seeks funding to tackle a humanitarian crisis.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on a Kabul heist: snatching money from the starving

Editorial: Afghans are not to blame for 9/11, though they have paid for it many times over. Cruelly, they are being punished again

Al Jazeera

Estimated one million Afghan children engaged in labour: NGO

Save the Children says almost one fifth of 1,400 surveyed families say they have to send their children to work.

The Guardian - AU

‘Stroke of a pen’: Coalition urged to accept Afghan refugees in addition to existing intake

Immigration minister previously announced places for Afghan nationals within existing visa program in move critics call ‘mean and tricky’

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Tribune News Service

House competition bill packed with progressive policy goals

WASHINGTON — A host of progressive foreign policy provisions on issues like scrutinizing advanced weapon sales to the United Arab Emirates and welcoming more asylum-seekers fleeing Beijing’s oppression were tucked into House Democrats’ bill aimed at bolstering competition with China.

Roll Call

House competition bill packed with progressive policy goals - Roll Call

House Republicans have been scathing in their assessments of what they’ve termed Democrats’ “Christmas tree” of a bill.

ABC News

Widow of Afghanistan veteran tells royal commission the army rebuffed her calls for help dealing with husband's aggression

A witness tells the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide that her appeals to the army for help in dealing with her husband's aggressive behaviour following his return from Afghanistan went unanswered.

The Guardian - US

The Taliban forced Afghan TV workers into hiding. Now they’re asking Hollywood for help

Television industry employees once used their programs to address progressive ideas. Many are now out of work and fearful to leave their homes

AAP

Delegation wants more Afghan refugee spots

A delegation of veterans and religious leaders will meet politicians in Canberra to call on the government to lift its refugee intake from Afghanistan.

Tribune News Service

Pakistan’s PM warns Afghanistan could descend into chaos

The U.S. refusal to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, coupled with sanctions and frozen assets, could push the country into chaos and threaten Pakistan’s stability, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday.

Axios

What the U.S. learned from Afghanistan exit — and how it’s changing course for Ukraine

Biden's approach to Ukraine has been defined by a daily blizzard of meetings and calls among top U.S. officials and European counterparts.

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