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Five million Afghans displaced due to war in past two years

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State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management said Thursday that at least five million Afghans have been displaced due to conflict in the country in the past two years.

According to the ministry, amid escalating violence by the Taliban in the past two months alone, 32,384 families have been displaced in 25 provinces, of which 20,000 have been assisted so far.

The State Minister for Disaster Management Ghulam Bahauddin Jilani said emergency operations have been rolled under difficult conditions by the Afghan government.

According to the minister, the escalation of violence by the Taliban has forced people to seek refuge in safer areas.

“We launched the emergency operation with all our might in 25 provinces and yesterday we addressed the IDPs in 17 provinces of the country,” Jilani said.

The ministry says 62,480 families have been displaced in the last six months, of which more than 30,000 have been displaced in the past two months.

The ministry says it needs 500 million Afghanis to care for these families.

“We need the humanitarian assistance of international organizations and donor countries to better address the displaced people,” Jilani added.

The current situation, the presence of a large number of IDPs, has put a lot of pressure on how government services are provided, while increasing competition for access to job opportunities in relatively safe cities, he said.

“It’s been a month since we were displaced, we lost everything,” said Nasrin, an IDP from Herat province.

“There was a war in our village, the planes bombed, and the Taliban came, we took some things and left some others and ran away,” said Bibi Mehri, another IDP from Balkh.

In addition, another challenge facing that the Ministry of Disaster Management is the displacement caused by drought.

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Daesh recruits enter Afghanistan via Iran: U.N.

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Principle routes for new Daesh recruits to Afghanistan include travel through Turkey and Iran, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a new report.

The latest report by the U.N. Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, covering June-December 2024, said that Daesh recruited Central Asians mostly Tajik nationals, and the recruits received training in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, and there are also training camps in Kunar and Nuristan provinces.

It said that there are over two dozen terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, and security threat emanating from the country is a continuing driver of instability in the region and beyond.

The report noted that the “ambition and scale of its [the TTP] attacks on Pakistan […] had significantly increased, with over 600 attacks during the reporting period, including from Afghan territory.”

“The Taliban (IEA) continued to provide TTP with logistical and operational space and financial support,” it said.

On al-Qaeda, the report said that the group sought to strengthen cooperation with regional terrorist organizations of non-Afghan origin that operate in the country, including TTP, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, ETIM/TIP and Jamaat Ansarullah to expand its presence in neighboring countries.

“The Taliban (IEA) maintained a permissive environment allowing Al-Qaida to consolidate, with the presence of safe houses and training camps scattered across Afghanistan,” the report said.

The Islamic Emirate has previously denied the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan and emphasized that it will not allow Afghanistan’s soil to be used against other countries.

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Invaders should learn from ‘successes of Jihad,’ says IEA on Soviet exit anniversary

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The Islamic Emirate said in a statement Friday on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan that “the invaders should learn from the successes of jihad in the past 100 years and no longer take steps against the freedom of Afghanistan.”

The Islamic Emirate described Soviet withdrawal day as a “proud day in the history of Afghanistan,” noting that Afghans managed to drive out a great power like the Soviet Union.

“The fact that Afghanistan has been liberated from occupation for the third time in the last 100 years by the help of Allah Almighty shows that the sense of independence among Afghans is strong and our Muslims have a strong determination and commitment to protect their religion,” the statement said.

The Islamic Emirate called on the people of the country to be vigilant against “all kinds of conspiracies and plots and to follow the path of their ancestors and protect their religion, belief and independence by maintaining Islamic determination and unity.”

Meanwhile, Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation in the former government, called the victory over the Soviet Union “the end of a dark era in Afghanistan’s history” and a “miracle.”

“Jihad and righteous standing up of our people was unprecedented in the history of nations’ freedom struggles,” he said. “As a result of the sacrifices of the Afghan people, international relations changed and it paved way for the liberation of other deprived nations.”

“Unfortunately, Afghanistan suffered heavy human and financial loss in the 10-year occupation,” he said. “More than a million people were martyred, tens of thousands were disabled and millions more were forced to migrate abroad.”

The last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989 after a decade of war.

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Judge orders US to restore funds for foreign aid programs

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A federal judge ordered the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to restore funding for hundreds of foreign aid contractors who say they have been devastated by his 90-day blanket freeze, Politico reported late on Thursday.

The order blocks the Trump administration from canceling foreign aid contracts and awards that were in place before Trump took office on January 20, Reuters reported.

The stated purpose in suspending of all foreign aid was to provide the opportunity to review programs for their efficiency and consistency with priorities, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali wrote in a filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

He added: “At least to date, defendants have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing programs.”

Trump has attempted to dismantle government agencies and ordered them to prepare for wide-ranging job cuts, and several have already begun to lay off recent hires who lack full job security.

The Republican has also embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants and top officials at agencies in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

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