South East Asia

Introduction

As the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition troops from Afghanistan is already in its final stages as per the February 29, 2020 agreement[1] between the United States and the Afghan Taliban, signed in the Qatari capital of Doha, the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun to carry out increasingly diverse attacks via its Afghan affiliate, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), in an attempt to expand its influence in the country.

On August 2, 2021, one Police constable, identified as Dilawar Khan, was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a Police team guarding polio workers administering vaccinations near the Atal Sharif area of Kalachi Tehsil (revenue unit) in the Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The gunmen managed to escape.

L’aggravation de la situation sécuritaire est connue de tous et inquiète tout le monde. Sauf le Commissariat aux Réfugiés, écrit l’avocate Selma Benkhelifa.

Toute la presse parle de l’offensive des Talibans, ils avancent et les villes afghanes tombent une par une entre leurs mains. Ils sont aux portes de Kaboul.

Temeri privind o nouă criză a refugiaților în Europa, după ce talibanii au cucerit mai multe orașe din Afganistan

Talibanii au cucerit joi oraşul Ghazni, la 150 km sud-vest de Kabul, a zecea capitală de provincie care cade în mâinile lor în decurs de o săptămână, scrie BBC. Luptele sângeroase din țară au provocat peste o mie de morți printre civili doar în ultima lună, în vreme ce numeroși localnici s-au văzut nevoiți să își părăsească locuințele. Unii oficiali din Europa se tem deja că eventuala instalare la putere a talibanilor ar putea genera un nou val de refugiați.

Violence has surged in Afghanistan since May, with conflict in and around provincial capitals between Afghan forces and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, also known as the Taliban). The fighting is impeding access to medical care, increasing the numbers of people killed and wounded by bullets and explosions, and causing widespread displacement. In the areas where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works—Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, Kandahar, Kunduz, and around Herat—the consequences of the conflict have been felt acutely.

The situation in Afghanistan hinges on Afghan civilian and military leadership, the Pentagon press secretary said today during a news conference.

Taliban forces have taken at least five provincial capitals in the country and others are threatened. Press Secretary John F. Kirby said the fighting in the country “is clearly not going in the right direction.”

Die Lage in Afghanistan wird immer gefährlicher. Dorthin abzuschieben, ist unmenschlich – und zu glauben, die bisherige Flüchtlingspolitik einfach fortführen zu können, ohnehin ein Trugschluss.

Ist es moralisch und rechtlich vertretbar, Menschen in ein Kriegsgebiet abzuschieben? Nein. Ist Afghanistan ein Kriegsgebiet? Gestern haben die radikal-islamischen Taliban eine Residenz des Verteidigungsministers in Kabul angegriffen. 13 Menschen starben dabei.

KABUL – College professor Moqadasa Rasouli has many memories from when the Taliban ruled the majority of Afghanistan and enforced a strict interpretation of sharia or Islamic law.

These memories are invariably the stuff of nightmares.

Once, Rasouli witnessed a group of women being severely whipped for wearing flip-flops and nail polish. Another time, her 10-year-old neighbor was beaten for forgetting to put on a headscarf. When the Taliban found out Rasouli and other girls were secretly studying at a school, it was promptly closed down.