Published 3 years ago

Afghanistan's last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover

Summary by Ground News

The Taliban on Tuesday announced the formation of the government in Afghanistan. The Taliban has named Mullah Hasan Akhund as the acting Prime Minister, while the group's co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar has been appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister. Amid Taliban rule, shocking visuals have been reported from Kabul's National Music Institute as the Taliban has reportedly destroyed musical instruments.

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Times of India

Afghans fear for jobs and money after Taliban takeover

South Asia News: KABUL: As a nurse at one of Kabul's main hospitals, Latifa Alizada was the breadwinner for her family, providing for her three young boys and unemploy.

3 years ago·India

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The Guardian

The Taliban takeover must not mean the end of international aid to Afghanistan

A humanitarian crisis looms unless Americans and Europeans continue to fund the projects keeping Afghans from oblivionLeaving is the easy bit. It’s the looking back that hurts. There was – as Joe Biden pointed out when announcing America’s defeat at the hands of the Taliban on 31 August – nothing “low-grade or low-risk or low-cost” about a 20-year deployment that cost the United States more than $1tn and thousands of service personnel their live…

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Hindu

Afghanistan’s last Jew leaves country

He is now in a ‘neighbouring country’

3 years ago·India

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The Independent

Afghanistan's last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover

The last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community has left the country

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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NDTV

Taliban Takeover Sparks Fear For Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage Sites

Bamiyan's cultural centre should have been completed last month, showcasing the remarkable heritage of a site that Afghanistan's Taliban desecrated two decades ago by dynamiting ancient statues of Buddha.

3 years ago·New Delhi, India

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Associated Press News

Afghanistan's last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The last member of Afghanistan's Jewish community has left the country. Zebulon Simentov, who lived in a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul, kept kosher and prayed in Hebrew, endured decades of war as the country's centuries-old Jewish community rapidly dwindled.

3 years ago·United States

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