Al Jazeera visualises Afghanistan – a mostly mountainous country of 38 million people – which has suffered decades of war.
Over the past few days, the Taliban has taken 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals.
The armed group now controls an estimated 65 percent of the country’s territory, as the US-led foreign forces are about to complete the pullout from the country after 20 years of war.
Six important figures lead the Taliban movement, which has been fighting the Western-backed government since 2001.
The Taliban has been fighting the Western-backed Afghan government in Kabul since it was removed from power in 2001.
It originally drew members from so-called “mujahideen” fighters who, with support from the United States, repelled Soviet forces in the 1980s.
The bustling metropolis of six million saw businesses shut as people stayed indoors after the Taliban took over.
The first day of what the Taliban calls the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” saw Kabul, a bustling metropolis of six million, turn into a slow, male-dominated city without police or traffic controls and with shuttered businesses everywhere.
La Tunisie est confrontée à une crise constitutionnelle suite aux défis posés à la séparation des pouvoirs et l’ampleur prise par l’exécutif. Il en résulte des implications non seulement pour la Tunisie mais aussi pour l’avenir de la démocratie en Afrique du Nord.
Les profils de la violence perpétrée par les groupes islamistes militants d’Afrique évoluent. Ils continuent néanmoins de semer le chaos à un niveau record, causant, en moyenne, 14 évènements violents par jour.
Un examen des données sur les évènements violents attribuables aux groupes islamistes militants en Afrique pendant le premier semestre de 2021 et leur évolution au cours de la dernière décennie met en relief la menace grandissante qu’ils posent. Cependant, il existe des différences considérables dans les niveaux et les types de violences perpétrés. Voici des points clés à retenir :
Leading figures in the insurgent group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which is the dominant faction in the insurgent-held regions of Idlib and its environs, have long expressed admiration for the Taliban in Afghanistan and its efforts in the face of the Afghan government that was backed by the United States and other international actors. For them, the Taliban’s recent victory in Afghanistan constitutes a victory for Muslims (i.e. Sunnis) and is an example of steadfastness in the face of a foreign occupation. Unsurprisingly, therefore, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham has released its own official statement congratulating the Taliban and the ‘people of the Afghans’. The statement highlights the Taliban’s years of fighting as an inspiration for its own ‘steadfastness’, while also urging the international community to recognise that it should not support oppressive regimes against the will of the peoples who reject them. The statement concludes with a hope for victory to liberate Syria and implement Islamic law.
La marine tunisienne a sauvé de la noyade 396 migrants qui tentaient d’atteindre l’Italie. Ceux-ci ont été récupérés dans plusieurs embarcations qui avaient chaviré dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, a annoncé mardi le ministère tunisien de l’Intérieur.
Les habitants dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun sont les premières victimes du conflit avec Boko Haram auquel viennent s’ajouter des inondations récurrentes.
La situation humanitaire dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun s’est dégradée depuis ces trois dernières années. L’insécurité alimentaire est en effet accentuée par le conflit contre Boko Haram qui a fait fuir des milliers de déplacés internes.
American media and other politicians, and the people they pay to say things, are locked up tight with the demise in Afghanistan. How could anyone let this happen? Who’s to blame for these precipitous – they claim — events? What awful chaos at the airport! The answers are as vacuous as the questions.
Two decades of American sacrifice was too few years for them.
Former President Donald Trump described the recent events in Afghanistan as the worst humiliation in American history but defended the agreement his administration struck with the Taliban last year.
“It’s a great thing that we’re getting out, but nobody has ever handled a withdrawal worse than Joe Biden,” the former president told Fox News Tuesday.