A man distributes bread to Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul. [Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo]
The New Yorker: Afghanistan Has Become the World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis
Four months after the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops, more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine.
On a recent afternoon in a Kabul hospital, seventeen babies lay beside one another on small beds, their bony elbows touching. Some of them, pink and a little plumper, cried and wriggled as nurses rushed by. Others, their pallid
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Update #1: As Afghanistan’s harsh winter sets in, many are forced to choose between food and warmth (Washington Post)
Update #2: Millions in Afghanistan are facing extreme hunger (The Week)
WNU Editor: The pictures that are coming out of Afghanistan are grim .... In Pictures: Hunger, poverty continue to stalk desperate Afghans (Al Jazeera).