Dec 07 After Taliban takeover, desperation drives thousands of Afghans a day across borders By Lee Keath, Mstyslav Chernov, Associated Press Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, Afghanistan’s economic collapse has accelerated, robbing millions of work and leaving them too poor to feed their families. Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch 7:34 Local community, businesses in the Bay Area band together to aid Afghan refugees By Mike Cerre The San Francisco bay area has the largest Afghan population in the US, making it an obvious place to resettle Afghan refugees. But it also has one of the country’s most expensive and competitive housing markets. Special correspondent Mike Cerre… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch 3:59 News Wrap: Biden signs short-term spending bill, averting government shutdown In our news wrap Friday, President Biden signed a short-term spending bill that averts a government shutdown, the latest jobs report shows fewer Americans were hired in November, a Virginia recount confirmed a Republican sweep in major races in the… Continue watching
Dec 02 Aid official says Afghanistan's crises 'progressively getting worse' By Lee Keath, Associated Press United Nations figures from early November show almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60 percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. That includes nearly 9 million people who live in near-famine. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 5:14 News Wrap: 3 dead, 8 injured in Michigan school shooting In our news wrap Tuesday, at least 3 students were killed after a shooting at their high school in southeastern Michigan. A federal appeals court upheld California's ban on high-capacity firearms magazines. New York City has become the first major… Continue watching
Nov 25 Watch 8:04 Former head of Saudi intelligence recounts America's longstanding ties to Afghanistan By Nick Schifrin It's been three months since the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan, but America's involvement there didn't begin after Sept. 11, 2001. It began decades earlier, after the Soviet Union invaded that country in 1979 and the U.S. began working… Continue watching
Nov 22 Amid lost jobs, middle class Afghans slide into poverty By Lee Keath, Associated Press Many Afghan families who once had steady, stable incomes have plummeted into desperation, uncertain of how they will pay for their next meal. Continue reading
Nov 17 Afghanistan on the brink of `humanitarian catastrophe,' UN envoy says By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press But she told the U.N. Security Council that a humanitarian catastrophe “is preventable,” saying the main cause is financial sanctions on the Taliban, who took over the country Aug. 15. Continue reading
Nov 17 WATCH: Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearing on Afghanistan as Taliban urges U.S. to ease sanctions By News Desk Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program of the International Crisis Group and former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker are expected to testify. Continue reading
Nov 16 Watch 8:16 Aid groups struggle to continue humanitarian aid for starving, injured Afghans By Jane Ferguson Winter has come to Afghanistan, and brought with it a skyrocketing need for aid to millions of desperate Afghans. International humanitarian groups are working to stave off widespread hunger, while providing other services under a Taliban regime widely considered a… Continue watching