Trump’s foreign aid pause imperils education programs for Afghan women
U.S.-backed initiatives that allowed thousands of Afghan women to study online or abroad are in jeopardy after Trump’s ...
Hindustan Times17d
Why a top Taliban leader’s quiet exit to UAE is fuelling internal rift rumours
In September 2022, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a televised speech. The Taliban’s acting deputy foreign ...
USA Today17d
FBI staff ordered to reveal their role in Jan. 6 investigations by Monday
WASHINGTON — FBI employees were ordered on Sunday to answer a detailed list of questions about any work they may have done on criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S ...
New York Post18d
FBI provides the Trump Justice Department with details about 5,000 employees who worked Jan. 6 cases: reports
The outlet reported that employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in Jan. 6 investigations, were included in the information submitted to the DOJ. Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll ...
CNN18d
Taliban raids and suspends Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station
The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...
Chatham House18d
What the West can do now in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Following the re-election of President Donald Trump in November last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership expressed hopes of opening ‘a new chapter’ in relations with the US. Afghanistan has not ...
France 2419d
Taliban suspend Afghan women's radio station, arrest employees
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities raided well-known women's radio station Radio Begum on Tuesday, arresting two employees, the broadcaster said, calling for the speedy release of its staff.
USA Today19d
FBI agents sue to protect identities of those who worked on Jan. 6 investigation
Two separate suits were filed Tuesday, the same day FBI leadership gave the Justice Department a list of employees who had worked on investigations of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol ...
The Hill19d
Agents sue FBI, DOJ amid fears of retaliation over work on Jan. 6 cases
The FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are being sued by 16 current agents who say their review of those who worked on the cases of some 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants is a preparation to retaliate ...
Metro19d
Taliban minister ‘forced to flee’ Afghanistan after supporting girls’ education
One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have been forced to flee the country. It was just two weeks ago that ...
The Intercept19d
The Capitol Rioters Are Free — But Ed Martin’s Crusade Against Jan. 6 Prosecutors Is Just Getting Started
On Friday, Ed Martin, the interim head of the federal prosecutor’s office in Washington, fired around 30 government attorneys who had been hired to work on January 6 cases. In an email on Friday ...
The Independent19d
Taliban minister who publicly opposed girls’ education ban 'flees' Afghanistan
His public remarks, made at a graduation ceremony in Khost province, were the first such against the Taliban’s education diktat and confirmed a rare sign of internal divisions around one of the ...