Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe’
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Taliban captures southern Afghanistan’s Lashkar Gah city
The Taliban has captured the key city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, a day after the group claimed control over Kandahar and Herat, the country’s second and third largest cities.
Taliban capture Ghazni city, its 10th provincial Afghan capital
The speed of the Taliban offensive raises questions of how long the Afghan government can maintain control of the slivers of the country it has left.
Taliban take control of 9 provincial capitals in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents say they have captured more provincial capitals in Afghanistan in recent days, bringing the total under their control to nine out of 34 capitals as U.S. troop withdrawals continue.
Taliban seizes seventh Afghan provincial capital in five days
The Taliban has captured the provincial capital of Farah in southwest Afghanistan, the seventh provincial capital the group has seized since Friday.
Israel receives a slap in the face from Hezbollah
On the eve of the anniversary of the 2006 July War between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel, an exchange of fire took place between the two sides. On the surface, it seemed a minor incident in the perennially unstable West Asia region. But in reality, it was strategically important in terms of reiterating the longstanding red lines along the Lebanon-Israel border.
Taliban captures Kunduz, third provincial capital in three days
The Taliban has captured the city of Kunduz, the armed group said, the third provincial capital it has taken over in the last three days.
Taliban kills head of Afghanistan gov’t’s media department
Taliban assassinates top media officer in Kabul as clashes between the group and government forces intensify.
Israel-Hezbollah tensions rise again
Hezbollah says it has fired rockets near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border, in retaliation to Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon a day earlier.
Civilians in southern Syria ‘under siege’ – UN human rights chief
The top UN rights official once more sounded the alarm on Thursday over the plight of civilians in Syria, as intense fighting and indiscriminate shelling by Government forces and armed opposition groups paralyze neighborhoods in and around the southern city of Daraa.
