The construction of a US Embassy power plant in Baghdad has been mired in controversies with deficiencies found at each stage of the project, and the plant continues to need costly repairs at US taxpayers expense, as per the State Department s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The decades-long intervention, in which Finland played an active role, ultimately fueled large-scale corruption and resulted in the death of thousands of. 20.12.2022, Sputnik International
'Zarifa: A Woman’s Battle in a Man's World' recounts the tumultuous events that shaped Afghanistan in the last 30 years through the eyes of Afghanistan's first woman mayor.
Nearly nine months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the economy is in freefall and about half the country is nearing acute food insecurity. But even with this widespread suffering, the Taliban on Sunday ordered all women be completely covered - head to toe - when leaving their homes, requiring them again to don the burqa that was a telltale of their first rule. Jane Ferguson reports.