
EU-Taliban Migration Talks in Doubt Over Missing Visa Requests
The controversial initiative reflects increasing pressure on Brussels to find ways of cooperating with Afghanistan’s rulers on migration.

The controversial initiative reflects increasing pressure on Brussels to find ways of cooperating with Afghanistan’s rulers on migration.

Officers report increasing aggression during operations on Belgium’s coast, confronting alleged “violent ex-soldiers” from Iraq and Afghanistan supporting human traffickers.

The Commission seeking the help of the Islamist regime exposes the strategic contradictions of European foreign and migration policy.

Applicants are told they will “gain practical and professional experience” by “working in a diplomatic mission.”

Vienna joins a group of EU states moving ahead with offshore deportation plans as Brussels struggles to finalise a common approach.

A meeting between Brussels and the Taliban could take place before the summer involving EU officials and representatives of member states.

The United States is right to demand more capable allies. What it cannot demand is that greater capability should mean automatic obedience.

The Taliban government has held a massive funeral for the hundreds killed in a Pakistani airstrike, using the somber event to warn Islamabad of the ‛consequences’ of its actions.

Afghan officials urging families to permit communal burials for victims during Ramadan.

The UN refugee agency said that around 115,000 Afghans and 3,000 people in Pakistan had been displaced by the fighting in the past week.