Topline The federal watchdog studying the United States’ role in Afghanistan released emails Wednesday apparently showing the State Department made misleading public statements about its compliance in...
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More Than 1,000 People Dead After 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Afghanistan
Topline More than 1,000 people were killed and hundreds were injured after an earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday, a natural disaster that will likely worsen the humanitarian crisis ...
At Least 280 People Dead After 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Afghanistan
Topline At least 280 people were killed and hundreds were injured after an earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday, a natural disaster that will likely worsen the humanitarian crisis in ...
Up To 15,000 Russians Have Died In Ukraine: U.K. Defense Ministry
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian army in three months of fighting has lost as many soldiers killed in action as the Soviet army lost in nine years of warfare in Afghanistan starting in 197...
Neighbors In Crisis, Uzbekistan Shifts Focus To Investment
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, center, takes a tour of the Capitol Rotunda with Rep. … [+] Trent Kelly, right, on May 17, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) CQ-Roll Call, In...
U.S. Left $7 Billion In Military Hardware In Afghanistan As Taliban Took Over, DOD Reportedly Finds
Topline The Department of Defense estimates $7.12 billion worth of military equipment purchased by the United States was left in Afghanistan following the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops that conclu...
The Dutch Are Sending Huge German Armored Howitzers To Ukraine
PABRADE, LITHUANIA – JUNE 08: A Panzerhaubitze 2000, which is a German 155mm self-propelled … [+] howitzer of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, takes part in Thunder Storm 2018 mult...
Will Ukraine Be Russia’s Next Afghanistan?
Having recognized two breakaway regions held by rebels in eastern Ukraine, President Putin has ordered Russian forces to move into them for ‘peacekeeping’ operations. Given the regular violations of t...
US and Europe must help Afghanistan humanitarian crisis
Former U.K. prime minister and current U.N. special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, told CNBC that the world must come together to find the $4.4 billion needed to address the humanitarian cr...
As people in Afghanistan turn to BUSD, how far is crypto adoption coming along
U.S sanctions against Afghanistan have exacerbated starvation, poverty, and made life even more perilous for the millions living under Taliban occupation. However, people both within and outside the c...
One In Seven Christian Minorities Under Threat In 2022
On January 19, 2022, Open Doors, an international NGO advocating on behalf of persecuted Christians, released their annual World Watch List. The World Watch List assesses 50 countries where Christians...
Crypto Can Help Afghanistan if the Taliban Doesn’t Ban it
Afghan history spans more than 5,000 years. But in recent decades, turmoil has been unrelenting. Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, many Afghans fled the country. The ones who stayed are hopeful ...
Pope Francis’s Pontifex Carpet Gift Sold as NFT for Charity Purpose in Afghanistan
A Pontifex carpet gifted to Pope Francis by Sheikh Mohamad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, during his visit to the Vatican in September 2016, was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT)...
An NFT sale raises $80K for poor families in Afghanistan
TL;DR Breakdown The Pontifex carpet NFT was sold for over $82K. It was a gift to Pope Francis from the crown prince of the UAE. 80% of the revenue will go towards helping vulnerable families in Afg...
Gift to Pope Francis Sold as NFT Raises $80,000 for Afghanistan – Bitcoin News
A carpet presented by the United Arab Emirates as a gift to the head of the Catholic Church a few years ago has been sold in the form of NFT. While the original remains in the Vatican, its digital rep...