Emran Feroz

Afghans hold their breath for peace as fighting season approaches

The United States is looking for a way out of Afghanistan, the country's political factions, however, seem incapable of pulling off a deal to end the decades-long war.

Afghanistan: A graveyard of empires, or of its own people?

Several empires have invaded Afghanistan and left with their tails between their legs - but it has always been the Afghan people paying the heaviest price.

After the terror attacks in Germany, are we still safe?

The terrorist in Hanau is not a lone wolf attacker, he is a brutal expression of a wider problem in German society.

Racism in Germany: 'I will never, ever, rent my house to someone like you'

Germany's racism watchdog says discrimination in the housing market is commonplace and becoming increasingly open.

How the Afghan president became irrelevant

US President Donald Trump's surprise visit to Afghanistan was a cutting image of how President Ashraf Ghani's government has become an afterthought.

The CIA's terror regimes in Afghanistan

CIA-funded paramilitaries are wreaking havoc in Afghanistan.

American drone strikes in Afghanistan continue to wreak havoc

A US drone strike that left more than 30 farmers dead is another untold tragedy that rarely gets covered.

'You have the watches, we have the time'

The cancellation of the agreement between the US government and the Taliban has nothing to do with the loss of life.

Why Afghanistan's independence day remains problematic

Does Afghanistan need to reconcile its past?

In Afghanistan, Trump is already pushing genocidal policies

The US president may have just said he doesn’t want to kill ’10 million people’, but his policy in Afghanistan seems to say differently,

Criminalising those who rescue refugees will not help hide gruesome reality

While many blame the rescue captains of refugee boats and activists for their initiatives, they do not know that the EU and its member states directly contribute to migration waves from Africa.

Why Austrian monarchs would turn in their graves today

Despite the demise of the far-right’s role in government, cases of Islamaphobia continue across the country although an open society enshrined in law by the late King Franz Josef I as far back as 1912.