In a joint statement issued after their recent meeting in Budapest, the leaders of the Organization of Turkic-speaking Countries mentioned the role of Turkic ethnic groups in Afghanistan as a bridge between Afghanistan and its members. The statement, released on Friday 2025 May 23, said that Afghanistan’s Turks are part of the country’s ethnic heritage
Kabul – EL Media: While education should be a haven for growth and awareness, many schools in Kabul today have become torture chambers that are wearing out the souls of students. Local sources told Il-Media that the educational environment in the capital’s schools has become extremely militarized, oppressive, and inhumane. A clear example of this
Sources close to the family of Mawlawi Abdul Qadir Qanet, a cleric critical of the Taliban, have reported that the group’s forces raided his home in Kabul on Thursday morning and took his 12-year-old son with them. This comes after Mawlawi Qanet himself was arrested by Taliban intelligence two days ago. The eldest son of
Raza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA, met with Mohammad Nabi Omari, the Taliban’s first deputy interior minister. The main focus of the talks was the security situation in Afghanistan. The meeting was held on Thursday, June 1, and the two sides discussed strengthening cooperation in maintaining stability and
Over the past two days, a number of female UN staff in Kabul have been targeted by Taliban-affiliated gunmen. Internal sources confirm that these individuals have visited the staff’s homes and forced their families to stop the women from working by making direct threats. In some cases, the threats have been accompanied by insults, filming
On the sidelines of the informal meeting of the Turkic States Organization held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, the International Alisher Navai Award was presented to Professor Aziz Sancar, a prominent scientist of Turkish origin and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award, named after Alisher Navai, one of the pioneers of
The Turkic Women’s Movement of Afghanistan (TUWM) has issued a statement strongly condemning the recent statements of Zalmay Khalilzad’s wife, Cheryl Bernard, a figure close to the Doha agreement process. In an article on the National Interest website, Bernard called the concerns of Afghan refugees about returning to Afghanistan “unfounded,” the statement, released on May
Local sources in Nangarhar have reported a fire at the provincial hospital in the province. Naqibullah Rahimi, spokesman for the Taliban’s public health department in Nangarhar, confirmed the incident and said the fire broke out in the hospital’s obstetrics and gynecology ward. According to Rahimi, the fire started around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and was caused
The World Health Organization has announced that since April, nearly 100,000 Afghan refugees have been deported from Pakistan and are in urgent need of health support. According to the report, most of these people are women and children and are facing problems such as respiratory diseases, malnutrition, physical injuries and mental disorders. The World Health
The first meeting of The Termez Dialogue on Central and South Asian Connectivity began in Uzbekistan on Tuesday, with the participation of the UN Political Representative for Afghanistan and Taliban officials. The summit, which will be attended by 200 participants from different countries, will focus on regional cooperation and economic ties. UNAMA Director-General Rosa Otunbayeva
