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Afghans receive assistance donated by an aid agency in Jawzjan province, northern Afghanistan, January 2022.

Humanitarian crisis

UN calls for massive funding for Afghanistan

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by Jörg Döbereiner
Taliban patrolling the streets of Herat in August 2021.

Afghanistan

How I fled from Afghanistan to Germany

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by Hamed Sarfarazi
Chris Donahue was the last US soldier departing Kabul on 30 August.

Afghanistan

Broken promises and western failure in Afghanistan

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by Paul D. Miller
by Hans Dembowski
The Delta variant is reality: people waiting to get refilled oxygen cylinders for sick family members.

Multidimensional crises

Why we must not turn our backs on Afghanistan now

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by Ralph Achenbach
Afghan police officers in a poppy field in 2006.

Afghanistan

Stop blaming victims for western failure in Afghanistan

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by Hans Dembowski
Endangered species: Himalayan snow leopard.

Biodiversity

Global warming and biodiversity loss mutually reinforcing

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by Lily Shrestha
by Bandana Shakya
Participants in an event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Kabul in 2018.

Islamism

Islamist ideology has softened a bit in Afghanistan

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by Rishikesh Thapa
Devastating fires destroyed shelters and property in Rohingya refugee camps near the Myanmar after this comment was finalised. Investigations are still ongoing.

Human rights

Refugee suffering in Bay of Bengal and Mediterranean

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by Ridwanul Hoque
by Hans Dembowski
Islam is part of Germany: Muslims break their fast at the Turkish-Islamic DITIB mosque in Göttingen in 2012.

Turkish immigrants

Divided community with identity problems

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by Timur Tinç
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