Kabul har fallit. Talibanerna har tagit över Afghanistan.

IS-K, the Afghanistan affiliate of the Islamic State organization, poses a serious threat to the Taliban Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), the Afghanistan affiliate of the Islamic State, could pose as Afghanistan’s next major problem. Responsible for the attack on Kabul’s airport in August, IS-K now poses a serious threat to the country’s new rulers and stability, with possible goals that go beyond the region and Western involvement. IS-K recently emerged as the outlier among the Islamic organizations now ruling Afghanistan.

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The 40,000 Afghans are part of a larger 60,000 package of resettlements and humanitarian admissions pledged by member states

France and Sweden make bigger pledges of 5,000 and 4,200 resettlements, but these will not necessarily be Afghans.

Johansson said ... the migration influx from Afghanistan to the EU was not alarming.

Johannson had previously described this goal as “doable” but she still had to persuade member state governments

In Kabul, Taraki was unemployed, and toward the end of the premiership of Mohammad Daoud, he made a trip to the Soviet Union, where the KGB is believed to have recruited him. In the early 1960s he applied to the American embassy in Kabul to work as a translator but failed to get the job.

Another problem that Amin had with the Soviet Union was the price of Afghan natural gas, which the Soviet Union had imported since 1968 below the international rate. Despite Afghan protests, the gas has been metered for accounting and crediting purposes on the Soviet side of the border and under the supervision of Soviet personnel. Afghan officials were forced to accept Moscow’s price schedule and its word on the amount being transported into the Soviet Union and the credit due Afghanistan.

Afghanistan lost a large portion of its income on this product, which was its biggest source of revenue. Three ministers, including Abdul Karim Meesaq, minister of finance, sent a polite letter to the Soviet government to this effect. While expressing the hope that the friendship between the two countries would last forever, they asked the Soviets to revise the gas price. The Soviet response is not known. What is known is that a day before his fall, Amin confided in one of his senior officials that the Soviet Union had asked his government to pay three times the price of gasoline that it used to pay. Amin had told them that because of their weak finances the Afghans were unable to pay such a high price; if the Soviets insisted, the Afghans would have to use bicycles.

Being a communist, and seeing that Afghanistan had been made dependent on the Soviet Union, Amin hoped that the Soviet Union would assist Afghanistan in its development schemes. He had submitted a list of projects to the Soviets, including plans to extract oil and to set up new factories. He also asked that these projects be completed by certain dates. At the same time Amin began to remove pro-Soviet officials from sensitive positions and recruited Western-educated Afghans to higher positions.