by Ali McCadden | Nov 23, 2021 | Education
WASHINGTON — UNICEF launched a plan this month that aims to pay teachers’ salaries in Afghanistan without going through the Taliban-run government, which has been a sticking point for countries and international organizations that had provided billions in...
by Zinya Salfiti | Nov 18, 2021 | National Security
Lawmakers blamed the eventual collapse of the U.S.-supported Afghan government on current and past administrations and pushed for quick action to help Americans and Afghans still there during a Wednesday Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing aimed at learning...
by Mikayla Denault | Nov 3, 2021 | Education
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Refugees escaped out of Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover, leaving many families and students needing assistance as they arrived in new communities. Annandale High School welcomed many Afghan refugee students, and their classmates reached...
by Zinya Salfiti | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Top defense experts said al-Qaida and the jihadist movement are big beneficiaries of the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan at a Senate hearing Thursday, part of a series of congressional hearings aimed at understanding how the 20-year, $2 trillion war...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security
On a scorching day in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, Shafi Sharifi found himself sitting with an opium farmer in the middle of a brightly colored field of poppies. It was 1999. Sharifi was working for Doctors Without Borders, distributing mosquito nets to...
