Unwelcome Refugees

Last week, the world shook twice. The first shock hit Haiti, when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake erupted beneath the island’s southern peninsula. Homes, churches, and hotels crumbled in the cities of Les Cayes and Jérémie and in nearby villages. More than 2,189 people have perished; that toll is expected to…

Reshad Jalali was nine years old when U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Kabul in 2001, and vividly remembers the crackle of Afghan singers on the radio for the first time, a relative’s jubilation at shaving his beard, and a swelling of optimism all around him. “We said we are…

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While the United States lost the Afghanistan War a long time ago, the scale of the defeat became undeniable when Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday. The Afghan government, built in the awkward image of Western liberal democracies, floundered and collapsed as the Taliban captured one provincial redoubt after…

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Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will attend the inauguration of Iranian president elect Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on August 5 amid growing coordination between New Delhi and Tehran over Afghan developments. ET had earlier reported that a Cabinet level minister will be India’s representative for the ceremony. New Delhi and…

The political problem with Washington’s military withdrawal from Afghanistan is that it’s leaving the Taliban with a sense of victory, emboldening it to undertake military manoeuvres to capture the country by force. While the prize targets are, of course, Kandahar and Kabul, the Taliban’s ground tactics also betray professional military…

In my role as curator of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, I spend most of my time studying and memorializing the history of the 20,000 Jews who fled the Holocaust and the turmoil of Europe for the relative safety of the “Shanghai Ghetto.” Yet, the relationship between China and its…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders greenlighted plans on Friday to give Turkey another 3 billion euros ($3.6 billion) over the next few years to provide fresh assistance to Syrian refugees on its territory and to help the country boost border controls. “It’s about additional funds of 3 billion euros,…

WEBWIRE – Monday, June 21, 2021 In 2020 in 10 European countries: 11,500 refugees benefited from the BNP Paribas programme, more than half of whom were minors. Sunday 20 June is dedicated to: “World Refugee Day” by the UN. This was an opportunity to take stock of BNP Paribas’ significant commitment since 2015…