On Friday, Secretary General António Guterres said that the time has come to end the offensive, start serious negotiations and avoid a prolonged civil war or the isolation of Afghanistan. According to …
The U.S. recently announced more than $266 million in new humanitarian assistance to address the pressing needs of an estimated 18 million people in Afghanistan, including more than 4.8 million ...
Afghanistan is experiencing a humanitarian crisis on an unprecedent scale and speed. Almost 23 million people, one in two Afghans, are facing acute food insecurity (IPC 3 Crisis or IPC 4 Emergency, according to the latest IPC assessment issued on 25 October 2021).Since the previous assessment issued in April 2021, food insecurity soared 37 …
Some 3.5 million people are displaced due to conflict, and many children are out of school. The health care system is collapsing, fundamental rights of women and are under threat, farmers and herders are struggling amidst the climate crisis, and the economy is in free fall. Half of Afghanistan's population experiences acute hunger.
With famine looming over Afghanistan, millions struggle for every meal. Before the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government, the economy depended heavily on foreign aid. Now nearly 9 million ...
Military and security service personnel strengths. in May 2022, the de facto Ministry of Defense announced that approximately 130,000 troops had been recruited for a new "National Army" (2022) note: as of 2022, there were also up to 10,000 foreign fighters in Afghanistan, most of whom were aligned with the Taliban.
13 June 2022 Humanitarian Aid. A critical $150 million dollar lifeline for rural families in Afghanistan was announced by the World Bank on Monday, part of an overall package of $195 million, for critical livelihood and life-saving assistance, the UN agriculture agency FAO, said on Monday. Some 19.7 million people – almost half of Afghanistan ...
The new Biden administration commitment brings U.S. humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan to more than $780 million since the chaotic ending of the 20-year-old war in August. The United Nations ...
As the humanitarian situation worsened, the United States also issued some exemptions to sanctionsand committed $308 million in aid last month — bringing the total U.S. assistance to the country ...
Amount President George W. Bush cut tax rates for the wealthiest, rather than raise them, at outset of Afghanistan and Iraq wars: At least 8%. Estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs …
An unprecedented hunger crisis is emerging in the wake of the economic collapse and ongoing drought. By late 2021, nearly half of Afghans were experiencing crisis or worse levels of food insecurity—the highest level ever recorded in Afghanistan and a 37% rise compared to six months earlier. Throughout early 2022, 55% of Afghans will …
Europe hosts few Afghan refugees. For decades, Afghans have also migrated or fled to Europe. Between 2015-2016, 300,000 of them arrived on the continent. They were the second-largest group of ...
Sarah Zaman. FILE — An Afghan refugee stands in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2023. islamabad —. Pakistan announced Friday that it ...
Immense humanitarian needs. "Afghanistan remains the world's largest humanitarian crisis in 2023, notwithstanding, of course, the recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria," he said, speaking via videolink from the capital, Kabul. The UN and partners are seeking $4.6 billion this year to assist the Afghan population.
According to the United Nations, 1.3 million Afghans are registered refugees in Pakistan and 880,000 more have legal status to remain. But a huge population of undocumented Afghans live in the ...
Victor J. Blue for The New York Times. By Apoorva Mandavilli. Sept. 12, 2021. The health care system in Afghanistan is teetering on the edge of collapse, endangering the lives of millions and ...
In the year following the Taliban takeover, tens of thousands of Afghans hoping — and in many cases, needing — to leave for the U.S. have been left in a bureaucratic limbo. Their future is ...
The ensuing war leaves about 1 million Afghan civilians and some 15,000 Soviet soldiers dead. Millions of Afghans begin …
Hundreds of Afghan men gather to apply for the humanitarian aid in Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. In a statement Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, the White House announced $308 million in ...
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The United States spent more than $8 billion over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan's opium and heroin trade, from poppy ...
In addition, more than half a million people fled Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power in August 2021, in the final weeks of U.S. and NATO pullout. At a news conference in Islamabad on Friday, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said more than 482,000 Afghans have returned home in the past more than two months, 90% …
(As of May, the US has set aside $720 million for Afghanistan since mid-August 2021, according to the State Department, in addition to about $55 million the US sent to Afghanistan in response to a ...
The war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost the US $2.26 trillion to date, according to the Cost of War project. The bulk of the spending, $933bn, was allocated to the US Department of Defense war budget, later supplemented by another $443bn. The rest of the money includes $296bn for veterans' medical and disability care and $59bn ...
Since 2002, the United States has provided nearly $88 billion in security assistance, $36 billion in civilian assistance, including $787 million specifically intended …
On a clear morning in March, an Afghan Air Force A-29 aircraft wheeled and dive-bombed a mud-brick target on the Taliban-held side, sending a rumble through the valley. The militants responded ...
More than twenty million people are on the brink of famine. The United Nations Development Programme projects that by the middle of this year Afghanistan could face "universal poverty," with ...
People in Afghanistan are today facing a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of "unparalleled proportions", the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator said on Tuesday. Ramiz Alakbarov, who also serves as Deputy Special Representative, issued a statement saying that acute hunger in the country rose from 14 million in July, to 23 ...
A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on August 30, 2021. WASHINGTON — America's longest war is over. The United States finished its withdrawal efforts from the airport ...
Demographic spread. The report revealed a 37 per cent surge in the number of Afghans facing acute hunger since its last assessment in April. Among those at risk …
In recent weeks, the United States and the European Union have pledged to provide $1.29 billion more in aid to Afghanistan and to Afghan refugees in neighboring countries. But aid can do only so ...
Since the shift in power in Afghanistan, humanitarian needs have skyrocketed. One million children are at risk of the most severe form of malnutrition. "Right now, every day Afghans are being punished by international policies that are leaving millions on the brink of starvation," says IRC Afghanistan director Vicki Aken.
The United States established diplomatic ties with Afghanistan in 1935. In 2012, the United States and Afghanistan concluded the Strategic Partnership Agreement to strengthen our bilateral relationship, support Afghanistan's capabilities as a partner, and improve the lives of the Afghan people. On February 29, 2020, the United States and …
The United States, which froze much of its Afghanistan funding when the Taliban came into power, has since recommitted to some of its aid, announcing $308 million in additional assistance this ...
The UN and partners launched a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan on Tuesday, in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic services there, which have left 22 million in need of...
United Nations leaders have been warning of signs of a humanitarian "catastrophe" in Afghanistan for months. A quarter-million people, 80% of whom are women, have fled their homes in 2021, even ...