What do Facebook, Ben and Jerry’s, and the Taliban all have in common? They support terrorists. Facebook has threatened to ban the head of the watchdog group UN Watch due to alleged content violations, including a post denouncing the Taliban and...
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A bomb attached to a packed minivan has exploded in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, killing at least seven civilians and wounding nine others
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It was the United Nations along with many individual nations that tried to present the Taliban as a group that might relax its core principles and be willing to negotiate its harsh stance on women’s rights and human rights in general. The...
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Former US President Donald Trump signed the Doha Peace Deal with the Taliban* in February 2020. As part of the pact, US-led western forces would withdraw from Afghanistan by 1 May. However, Trump has blasted his successor Joe Biden for having...
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A Taliban delegation will travel to Norway next week for talks
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After the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, US President Joe Biden said he was committed to ensuring al-Qaeda* did not regroup itself, despite a takeover of the Central Asian country by their longtime benefactors, the Taliban.**
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Afghanistan sits at the top of a new ranking of the world's worst countries for Christian persecution after President Joe Biden's disastrous military withdrawal and the Taliban's subsequent takeover of the nation. Open Doors USA, an organization...
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The Taliban has introduced new restrictions on women's lives, including a strict dress code.Aref Karimi/Getty Images
An Afghan woman said a Taliban gunman struck her mom across the face after the group's takeover, leaving a bruise.
The two...
The US froze nearly $10 billion of Afghanistan’s assets, held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, in August last year, after the Taliban seized power in the central Asian nation. Around the same time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and...
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Imran Khan welcomed Islamists’ conquest but is struggling to contain emboldened extremists at home
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Without a solution that restores the flow of money into and throughout the country, the number of Afghans at risk of hunger is doomed to soar, aid groups say.
This week, after lengthy legal and technical negotiations, the floodgates of foreign relief aid began to open.
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Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN human rights experts warned on Monday.
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My latest in PJ Media: There are so many ridiculous things being taught in American colleges and universities these days that a professor who defends the Taliban may seem staid and conservative compared to some of his colleagues, but that’s just a...
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The Taliban government wants to “coordinate billions of dollars in planned aid.” Meanwhile, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is seeking a UN “emergency Afghan appeal.” The humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan is undoubtedly...
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Nothing is truly the same in Afghanistan for many women whose lives were turned inside out after the Taliban sealed control last summer.
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While the Durand Line is recognised as the international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Kabul has never recognised the de-facto boundary, which was established by British colonialists in 1893. Fugitive Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani, in 2017,...
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Lawmakers Press Biden On 20,000 US-Trained Afghan Commandos Still Being "Hunted" By Taliban
Republican Congressional leaders are still, over four months after the chaotic and deadly US troop exit from Afghanistan, trying to press the...
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Kyle Mizokami
Snipers, Canada
The Canadian sniper team's record kill is an incredible testament to their skill.
Here's What to Remember: In order to make the shot, the Canadian snipers had to counteract the staggering amount of drop. Being on a...
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Trevor Filseth
Afghan Resistance,
The Taliban claims resistance leaders can return to Afghanistan safely.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign minister of the Taliban-led interim government of Afghanistan, indicated that he had spoken with Ahmad...
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