Internet and telecommunication services have resumed in Afghanistan after a two-day outage that wreaked havoc in the country. Afghans described the experience as “unreal” and “frightening.”
Safi can't call his parents -- but the Taliban's decision to switch off the Internet in Afghanistan is not only putting people offline. Flights have been canceled, banks shut, and hospitals unable to operate. RFE/RL's Safi Stanikzai reports.
Cell phone and internet services were restored in Afghanistan on October 1 two days after the Taliban imposed a nationwide shutdown of telecommunications, a move that largely cut off the country from the rest of the world.
A large-scale Internet blackout swept across Afghanistan on September 29, just weeks after the ruling Taliban authorities started severing fiber-optic cables in multiple provinces, leading to localized outages.
Afghanistan's rulers released a US citizen from custody following a visit by Washington’s hostage envoy, the US government and Taliban said on September 28, as the ostracized Taliban rulers continue efforts to improve relations with the West.
The Taliban has shut down access to fiber-optic Internet in large swaths of Afghanistan. The move has been widely criticized by Afghans who fear being cut off from the rest of the world.
US President Donald Trump threatened Afghanistan with unspecified “bad things” if it doesn’t turn the massive Bagram Air Base outside Kabul back to United States, an action previously rejected by the country’s Taliban rulers.
US President Donald Trump suggested that his administration was negotiating with the Taliban for US forces to once again occupy the base outside of Kabul, which was abandoned in 2021 shortly before the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump said the United States is attempting to get Bagram Airfield back from Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, citing the extremist group’s need for US help and the facility’s nearness to China’s nuclear assets.
Afghanistan’s de-facto Taliban rulers said they have reached agreement with visiting US officials on an exchange of prisoners, although no details were given and Washington has not yet confirmed that a deal has been struck.
At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured in an attack by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group in the Bar area of South Waziristan on September 13, according to the Pakistani military.
Schoolchildren in an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan say they fear their education will be severely disrupted if they're forcibly returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
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