The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in a recent report, described the first six months of 2021 to be the bloodiest months in the past 12 years. The report also highlighted that women, boys and girls were the main victims, making half of these casualties.

Nearly 20 years later, the last squad of American troops left the Bagram Airbase. Such an evacuation represents the end of US and NATO military missions in Afghanistan. The Bagram Airbase, once home to tens of thousands of American troops which and considered a symbol of US authority in the region, has currently turned into a ruined compound.

Afghanistan has witnessed waves of targeted assassinations and fatal explosions inside Masjids among worshipers over the past year, killing hundreds of Muslim scholars (Ulama), imams of Masjids (preachers) and lecturers of Islamic studies. A number of Afghan scholars have regarded such attacks to be extremely ‘questionable’ as they unequivocally accuse some of the internal elements in the current regime to have been red-handed with such filthy conspiracies.

Hanif Atmar, the Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressed in a press conference on May 18 that he had ‘good conversation’ with his Chinese counterpart. He added that they both discussed the prospects of China’s support to Afghan security forces in the fight against terrorism; however, China gave a positive response, this does not imply that a major ‘geopolitical’ change is underway in the region.