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World Food Program gave the largest UN aid to Afghanistan which amounted to $280,000,000 in fiscal year 2024. [4] Other UN agencies gave lesser amounts. According to a March 2024 publication by ProPublica based on a SIGAR report, the U.N. handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan since the Taliban arrived at the helm in August 2021. [5]
Afghanistan is a World Bank Group member country. It has received financial support from the organization since 2002. The World Bank provides loans and grants to support its development and reconstruction efforts. The bank aims to help Afghanistan with matters such as poverty reduction, infrastructure development, education, and governance.
September 22 – Iran summons the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy after saying that a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing during a performance of the anthem, days after a similar incident occurred in Pakistan. The Afghan delegate apologizes, claiming that this was because the public ...
Denying the exceptions, it added, also will show foes like Islamic State that "the U.S. abandons its allies," and endanger active-duty Afghan-American U.S. military members' wives, children and ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban government accepted a $10 billion investment in the country’s mines last year. The funds came from a Chinese company, part of a years-long effort by the world’s second ...
Reviewed annually, this mandate has been altered over time to reflect the needs of the country and was extended for one year, on 15 March 2024, by the UN Security Council Resolution 2727 (2024). Resolution 2678 (2023) Stressing the important role that the United Nations will continue to play in promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan.
The United Kingdom also “advises against all travel to Afghanistan.” In May 2024, three Spanish tourists were among four people killed when gunmen opened fire on a group of international ...
"Afghanistan, Carter, and foreign policy change: The limits of cognitive models." in Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership (Routledge, 2019) pp. 95–127. Lyon, The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 (2021) Malkasian, Carter. The American War in Afghanistan: A History (2021), a major scholarly history excerpt