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☆ Some Unaccompanied Afghan Children in the U.S. Suffer Panic Attacks, Depression
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Jessica Donati | Photographs Valerie Plesch For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Mahsa Zahrabi, an Afghan teenager who was evacuated to the U.S. on her own after being separated from her family at Kabul airport last year, was sleeping on the floor in her aunt’s unfinished basement in Virginia when a healthcare worker visited the home. The healthcare worker, who had been called to check on the girl after Mahsa went to a local hospital with a panic attack, was alarmed by her living conditions. The healthcare worker tapped into her network of churches and volunteers and found her a foster family instead.

☆ How a tank the Soviets tried to keep secret became an icon of Ukraine's resistance against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Sebastian Roblin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

An Afghan soldier fighting for the Soviets sits on a Soviet-made T-64 tank near the Salang Pass on August 17, 1989. However, these systems were mostly exported, and it's unclear whether either is currently operational on Ukrainian tanks. Defending Ukraine, 2014-2015A Ukrainian tank in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk in July 2014. A burned Ukrainian tank in Uglegorsk, on the frontline near Debaltseve, in February 2015. A pro-Russian separatist stands guard near a T-64 tank in Donetsk in July 2014.

REUTERS/Ali KharaKABUL, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Taliban have signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat to Afghanistan, Acting Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters. Azizi said the deal would involve Russia supplying around one million tonnes of gasoline, one million tonnes of diesel, 500,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and two million tonnes of wheat annually. The office of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who is in charge of oil and gas, also did not immediately respond. He said Afghanistan also received some gas and oil from Iran and Turkmenistan and had strong trade ties with Pakistan, but also wanted to diversify. The European Union will ban Russian crude imports by Dec. 5 and Russian oil products by Feb. 5.

☆ GOP House candidate J.R. Majewski lied about serving in a combat zone, AP reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GOP House candidate J.R. Majewski lied about aspects of his military service, according to the Associated Press. Majewski has repeatedly said he served in Afghanistan, but military records indicate he actually served in Qatar. Insider previously discovered Majewski violated federal law by neglecting to disclose his personal finances. Instead, Majewski actually loaded planes at a base in Qatar. In a video interview with "One American Podcast" in 2021, Majewski was asked if he served in Afghanistan.

☆ Poll: GOP is winning on the economy, immigration; Democrats are ahead on abortion and health care
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Chuck-Todd-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Chuck Todd | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

... And Joe O’Dea pitches himself as pro-abortion rights in Colorado Senate while Democrats push back. The Republican Party holds all-time high advantages on the economy, crime and border security, while the Democrats have an all-time high on abortion and a double-digit edge on health care. Midterm roundup: Trump hits the trail in OhioFormer President Donald Trump traveled to Ohio over the weekend to boost GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Not every GOP Senate candidate is eager to campaign with Trump. It’s a position on abortion that is different from that of his fellow Republican Senate candidates, many of whom favor stricter bans with few exceptions.

Navy veteran Mark Frerichs is free after two and a half years of captivity in Afghanistan under a prisoner swap personally approved by President Joe Biden, a senior administration official told NBC News. The Taliban announced the deal overnight and Noorzai appeared at a news conference in Kabul. “This is a painful decision for any president to make,” the administration official said. In recent years, it has become clear that the Taliban wanted Noorzai’s freedom as a condition of releasing the American. “We are working very hard as a government not just to resolve current cases, but also to punish, and by punishing, deter future cases,” the senior administration official said.

☆ Taliban release American engineer Frerichs in prisoner swap
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Mohammad Yunus Yawar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Noorzai was detained by the United States on suspicion of smuggling more than $50 million worth of heroin into the United States and Europe. Frerichs is an engineer and U.S. Navy veteran from Lombard, Illinois, who worked in Afghanistan for a decade on development projects. The United States has no official representation in Afghanistan and U.S. government officials elsewhere were not immediately available for comment. The United States has been pushing for the release of Frerichs, including after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, as U.S.-led foreign forces were withdrawing. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar; Writing by Charlotte Greenfield; Editing by Toby ChopraOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ An Afghan refugee who lifted his wife and toddler onto a C-17 military plane to flee Kabul tells the harrowing story of how they arrived safely in the US
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-23 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Thousands of Afghan refugees have evacuated Kabul amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. He was one of thousands who flooded the airport that Sunday evening, desperate to flee the country in fear of a Taliban government. Rahmatullah Alizadah/Xinhua via GettyThe Taliban's swift capture of Kabul triggered a collapse of the Afghan government and forced a frenzied evacuation of Americans and Afghan refugees amid the US's military pullout of the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Transit in Qatar and arrival to the USThe American C-17 aircraft landed in an air base in Qatar. Afghan refugees in the US are being housed at military bases in Virginia, Wisconsin, and Texas before being resettled across the country.

☆ Meet Afghanistan's fearless Gen Z influencers, who are blowing up on TikTok and have more Instagram followers than the president
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-05 | by ( Ali Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform. A generation of Afghan women in their 20s have mastered the art of living their lives on social media. The 26-year-old posts several times a day, and she has more followers on Instagram than the country's president, Ashraf Ghani. Ayeda Shadab photographed at the ancient Citadel in Herat, Afghanistan.

☆ Australia Charges Soldier Deployed to Afghanistan With War Crime
▼ + stars: | 2001-09-11 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Australian troops were deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq to support the U.S. in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. SYDNEY—Australian authorities charged a former soldier who was deployed to Afghanistan with a war crime, the first prosecution of its kind in Australia, as the U.S. ally continues to grapple with the conduct of its military in the conflict. The 41-year-old man was arrested Monday morning, and he has been charged with murdering an Afghan man while deployed, police said. It is the first time a war crime charge of murder is being used against an Australian military member under Australian law, police said. The authorities didn’t specify exactly when the killing took place.

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