Survey: Afghans’ optimism fading
KABUL, Afghanistan — Escalating violence and corruption have driven optimism and hope among Afghans to the lowest level in a decade, the Asia Foundation said in a survey published Tuesday. For the...
View ArticleThe Asia Foundation Releases 2015 Survey of the Afghan People
KABUL, Afghanistan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afghan optimism about the overall direction of the country, fear for personal safety, and confidence in government fell to their lowest point in a decade. Afghans...
View ArticleDiscontent rife in Afghanistan: 40% of people keen to leave, survey says
Annual survey shows Afghans less optimistic about their country’s future than at any point during the past decade, shedding light on why so many flee to Europe...
View ArticleThe Afghan battlefield has become more complicated
The Kabul regime is in a state of panic over the Taliban's current offensive which led to the first major city to fall into their hands since 2002, the capture of a dozen district headquarters and the...
View ArticleQ&A: ISIL, the Taliban and the battle for the Khorasan
In ISIL and the Taliban , filmmaker Najibullah Quraishi gained exclusive access to the central leadership of the Afghan chapter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Exploring the rise of...
View ArticleFears of Afghan woman who secretly filmed Taliban on bus
KABUL: Halfway through the journey home to Kabul, a Taliban militant stopped Fatima's bus, boarded, and began making a speech so extraordinary that the 23-year-old began to surreptitiously film it on...
View ArticleAsia Foundation Experts Participate in Open Government Partnership (OGP)...
(Source: The Asia Foundation) Mexico City, November 4, 2015 - Last week, The Asia Foundation's Senior Director of Digital Media and Technology Programs John Karr, Acting Director of Governance and Law...
View ArticleAfghans protest against 'killings of Hazara by ISIL'
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Afghanistan's provincial city of Ghazni to demand justice for last week's beheading of seven members of the Shia Hazara ethnic group. The...
View ArticleAfghanistan Travel Warning (US Department of State)
(Source: US Department of State) The Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens against travel to Afghanistan. The security situation in Afghanistan is extremely unstable, and the threat to...
View ArticleAfghanistan: the Catastrophic Quagmire
As we learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, [the point] isn’t just getting them beaten; it’s keeping them beaten [to] have this victory stick. — US Defense Secretary Carter, onboard the USS Theodore...
View Article60 Years of South-South Cooperation (The Asia Foundation)
(Source: The Asia Foundation) Jakarta, October 30, 2015 - South-South cooperation (SSC) is not new, nor is it a southern version of traditional aid, according to participants at a joint Korea...
View ArticleAfghans march against terrorism and for a political system to secure their...
(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) While the historic protest in Kabul was a demonstration of national solidarity against IS-inspired violence, it also reflected disappointment at the...
View ArticlePresident Zuma to visit Bushbuckridge to inspect delivery of basic services...
(Source: The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa) 03 November 2015 President Jacob Zuma will on Friday, 06 November 2015, undertake a visit to Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga Province to monitor the...
View ArticleAfghans Searching for a Leader
For the first time, Afghanistan has been experiencing a government style called national unity government. Two individuals, Dr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani as a president and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah as his...
View ArticleIntroducing Sahar Speaks, A New Initiative Empowering Afghan Women To Tell...
Afghanistan is often cited as the worst place on the planet to be a woman and one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. In a country still reeling from more than 13 years of...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan capital, tentacles of Taliban reach deep
The pulsating lights and opulent decor of Kabul's wedding halls usually offer Afghans a brief sanctuary from war and hardship. But the aftermath of a recent marriage celebration underscored the...
View ArticleGerman Campaign Asks Afghans To Think Twice Before They Go
"Leaving Afghanistan? Are you sure?" That's the question the German Embassy in Kabul is asking Afghans considering fleeing their home country for a new life in the West. The answer, provided by way of...
View ArticleWoman stoned to death in Afghanistan over accusation of adultery
(CNN)The men surround the woman as she stands in a hole dug into the stony ground, only her head pokes above the surface. Then they begin to pick up rocks and hurl them at her again and again from...
View ArticleThe Asia Foundation and Australian Government Partnership Working Paper...
(Source: The Asia Foundation) San Francisco, November 19, 2015 - Through its partnership with the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), The Asia Foundation today...
View ArticleJoint Press Release: Independent Directorate of Local Governance and UNDP...
(Source: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Afghanistan) Nov 14, 2015 Kabul, November 14, 2015 - The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and the United Nations Development...
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