“The whole health system has been destroyed,” says the head doctor at the only Kabul hospital still open to coronavirus patients.
When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August last year,Afghan-Australian designer Lida Mangal thought it might spell the end for her nascent clothing label Ghan Fashion.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says millions of Afghans are suffering extreme hunger and that education and social services are on the brink of collapse.
The federal government has said it will allocate 15,000 places over four years to Afghan nationals,but the places will come from within existing humanitarian and family visa channels.
A parliamentary report claims the government has been “dishonourable” by leaving hundreds of interpreters and other citizens at high risk of brutal reprisals from the Taliban.
Since sweeping to power in mid-August,the Taliban have imposed widespread restrictions,including on the women’s rights and the right to protest.
Two staff members of an Australian NGO were severely beaten by the Taliban on December 25 because of their involvement with a foreign organisation.
Sohail Ahmadi was just two months old when he went missing in the chaos when thousands tried to flee the Taliban takeover.
Qandi,10,was sold into marriage behind her mother’s back. She is just one of the children traded for food by starving Afghan families. Here are their stories.
The US is investigating what happened to $200 billion of aid for Afghanistan. In his first interview since fleeing the palace,Ashraf Ghani says he left with nothing.
The invasion of the US Capitol on January 6 was only the first in a series of extraordinary events and huge moments that would dominate the news in 2021.