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FILE- Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, take refuge in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to a so-called World Happiness report released, Saturday, March 19, 2022 ahead of the U.N.-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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Afghanistan world's unhappiest country, even before Taliban
By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press
Sat,03/19/22-7:06AM , 358 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to a so-called World Happiness report released ahead of the U.N.-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday.
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This photo provided by David Loyn shows Peter Jouvenal at the Frontline Club in London in 2017. The U.S. and British governments, as well as a family member, say Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have detained several British citizens and an American. A statement from the British government this week said there are a number of British nationals currently in Taliban custody. While the government refused to release their identities, Hassina Syed, the wife of Peter Jouvenal, a former freelance cameraman turned businessman, told The Associated Press, her husband was taken on Dec. 13, 2021. (David Loyn via AP)

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Afghanistan's Taliban detain Brits, American; reason unclear
By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press
Fri,02/18/22-10:51AM , 172 Reads
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained several British citizens and an American, including a former freelance television journalist who has been coming to Afghanistan for more than 40 years, both governments and a family member say.
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Afghan journalist Banafsha Binesh speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, at TOLO TV newsroom in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Binesh fear haunts every step when she leaves her home each morning for the newsroom at Afghanistan's largest television station in the Afghan capital Kabul. A December survey jointly carried out by Reporters Without Borders and the Afghan Independent Journalist Association, reported "a total of 231 media outlets have had to close and more than 6,400 journalists have lost their jobs", since the Taliban's August arrival in the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Fear runs through Afghanistan's 'hazardous' media landscape
By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-12:13AM , 154 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fear accompanies reporter Banafsha Binesh from the moment she leaves her Kabul home each morning for the newsroom at Afghanistan’s largest television station.
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Afghan wait to enter a bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Six months since Kabul was ceded to the Taliban with the sudden and secret departure of U.S.-backed president residents say a calm has settled on the country, but the future is uncertain as the economy teeters on the verge of an economic collapse and the new Taliban rulers tackle the transition from war to relative peace. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Six months of Taliban: Afghans safer, poorer, less hopeful
By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press
Tue,02/15/22-12:56AM , 198 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule.
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