Afghanistan remains one of world's deadliest conflict zones

[Nicky91]

https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1331190216279937025

https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1331185573831335936

[user104658]

They got caught in the middle of US-Russia tensions during the Cold War and have been utterly ****ed ever since... like much of the middle east... but Afghanistan really got it worst with the Mujahideen.

[user104658]

Afghanistan in the 1970's before getting slammed between East/West politics;

https://image.glamourdaze.com/2015/08/Female-students-at-the-Polytechnical-University-in-Kabul-in-the-mid-1970s-Hulton-Archive.jpg

[Niamh.]

Afghanistan in the 1970's before getting slammed between East/West politics;

https://image.glamourdaze.com/2015/08/Female-students-at-the-Polytechnical-University-in-Kabul-in-the-mid-1970s-Hulton-Archive.jpg

Such a shame


There was a man and two teenagers found in the back of a truck that had just come off the ferry in Rosslare today from Afghanistan actually

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30723147.html

[arista]

Yes the Taliban
rule that nation
and they do not want women in any power.

[arista]

Today The Taliban were in Oslo, Norway
for talks.

Protestors were there

3 Days of Talks.
They arrived yesterday

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/23/taliban-delegation-arrives-in-norway-for-first-talks-with-west

[arista]

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/000_9WV946.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C513

[arista]

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-01-22T190100Z_1795838246_RC2I4S9ROIPA_RTRMADP_3_AFGHA NISTAN-NORWAY.jpg?resize=770%2C513

[Oliver_W]

Afghanistan in the 1970's before getting slammed between East/West politics;

https://image.glamourdaze.com/2015/08/Female-students-at-the-Polytechnical-University-in-Kabul-in-the-mid-1970s-Hulton-Archive.jpg

You reckon islam wouldn't have taken such hold without Ruskie conflicts?

[bots]

Iran was very much the same in the 70's, it was before the fundamentalist resurgence