Generations of Afghans have fled to Ukraine in recent decades to seek refuge from conflict. But now these students, immigrants, and refugees are trying to leave Ukraine due to the war in which Russia is using lethal weapons to attack Kyiv and other big cities.
The recent Taliban attacks on the beleaguered Hazara minority are apparently provoked by the breakdown of a longstanding agreement between the two, according to former Taliban members and Ghazni locals.
Afghanistan’s top security officials and lawmakers are at loggerheads over who is responsible for preventing deadly terrorist attacks in the capital that have killed and injured hundreds this year alone.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appears keen to end illegal payoffs allegedly paid by cabinet members to secure endorsements from lawmakers.
Critics say Mahmoud Karzai -- who in addition to a car dealership and coal mining is involved in numerous real-estate deals and has interests in the country's only cement factory -- got where he is through his ties to his brother, the president. He concedes that it is "very difficult to legally make a profit in Afghanistan," but blames allegations of wrongdoing on his part on political sniping.
