India steps up diplomatic relations with the Taliban as rival Pakistan loses influence in Afghanistan
India and Afghanistan have taken a significant step in securing their first high-level bilateral engagement. No foreign ...
'ICC must stop making unfair decisions': Afghan women cricketer demands cricketing body to act against Taliban
Despite Afghanistan lacking a women’s cricket team, the ICC has yet to take any action against the board. Firooza Amiri, an ...
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For Trump’s national security adviser, Afghanistan still looms large
Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to ...
Biden called families of 3 Americans held by Taliban to tell them he hasn't reached deal to free them
President Biden spoke by phone Sunday with the families of three Americans held by the Taliban, Ryan Corbett, George Glezmann ...
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Tiny Steps for TAPI in the Taliban’s Afghanistan
The Taliban authorities say that around 3 kilometers of the pipeline has been completed, out of more than 770 km needed to ...
‘I Just Want to See My Mom and Dad.’ An Afghan Teen in the U.S. Yearns For Reunion
The uncertainty is a new point of stress. One night, Samir cried out in his sleep. In a dream, his mother had died. Four in ...
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U.S. government blocks Marine’s custody of adopted girl saved from Afghanistan battlefield
The U.S. State Department has continually pushed for a girl to be given to an Afghan couple with alleged terrorist ties and ...
Why India is reaching out to the Taliban now
India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical ...
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Malala Urges Muslim Leaders Not To 'Legitimize' Afghan Taliban
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who stated she was “honored” and “overwhelmed” to be at the event, said she will hold Afghanistan's Taliban rulers "accountable" for rights violations when ...
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Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai Decries Taliban's Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law.
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Biden called families of 3 Americans held by Taliban to tell them he hasn't reached deal to free them
The U.S. considers Ryan Corbett and George Glezmann to be wrongfully detained by the Taliban, and describes Mahmood Habibi, who holds dual American and Afghan citizenship, as "unjustly held" since ...
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Taliban don't see women as human beings, Malala Yousafzai says
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan as “gender apartheid” Sunday and urged Muslim leaders to speak out against the Taliban government’s ...