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Taliban threatening Chevening scholars’ families, says MP | Afghanistan

Chevening scholars from Afghanistan are receiving threatening messages from the Taliban about what they intend to do to harm their relatives back in their place of birth, according to their…

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Asia

Ambassador in limbo makes plea for Afghans to be allowed into EU | Afghanistan

In other times, Mirwais Samadi would have welcomed a campaign to deter his compatriots from opting to become illegal migrants and embarking on the often dangerous trek from Afghanistan to…

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Asia

UK urged to resettle fleeing Afghan women’s football team | Afghanistan

The UK government is being asked to urgently resettle female players from Afghanistan’s junior football team who fled the Taliban and have been offered a new life with Leeds United.…

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Jake Sullivan: the Biden insider at the center of the Afghanistan crisis | US news

On the afternoon of 30 August, a White House aide brought a note into the Oval Office confirming that the last US military plane had left Afghan airspace, marking the…

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Asia

Taliban publicly display bodies of alleged kidnappers in Herat | Afghanistan

Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official has said, in…

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Asia

Mismatch of mindsets: why the Taliban won in Afghanistan | Taliban

Some years ago, in Afghanistan, the anthropologist Scott Atran asked a Taliban fighter what it would take to stop the fighting, because families on both sides were crying. The fighter…

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Asia

‘Necessary for security’: veteran Taliban enforcer says amputations will resume | Afghanistan

One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan has said the hardline movement will once…

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Asia

Last year 2,100 Afghans won the visa lottery. Their hopes of making it to the US are dwindling | Afghanistan

Thousands of Afghan families who were selected for US visas are stuck in the war-torn country, as the US government’s failure to schedule their visa interviews ahead of a final…

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Asia

‘We buried our sportswear’: Afghan women fear fight is over for martial arts | Afghanistan

On the morning of 15 August, when the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul, Soraya, a martial arts trainer in the Afghan capital, woke up with a sense of…

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Football

Lewes’ Kelly Lindsey: ‘In Afghanistan I had to build trust with the players’ | Lewes

“We’re eager to do something that the world doesn’t believe is possible, to take this little club and become champions on the world stage and make sure we do it…

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Categories

Taliban threatening Chevening scholars’ families, says MP | Afghanistan

Ambassador in limbo makes plea for Afghans to be allowed into EU | Afghanistan

UK urged to resettle fleeing Afghan women’s football team | Afghanistan

Jake Sullivan: the Biden insider at the center of the Afghanistan crisis | US news

Taliban publicly display bodies of alleged kidnappers in Herat | Afghanistan

Mismatch of mindsets: why the Taliban won in Afghanistan | Taliban

‘Necessary for security’: veteran Taliban enforcer says amputations will resume | Afghanistan

Last year 2,100 Afghans won the visa lottery. Their hopes of making it to the US are dwindling | Afghanistan

‘We buried our sportswear’: Afghan women fear fight is over for martial arts | Afghanistan

Lewes’ Kelly Lindsey: ‘In Afghanistan I had to build trust with the players’ | Lewes

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