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Taliban working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
Afghans walk outside Hazara's Sakhi Shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)
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Gunman kills six worshippers inside Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan, Taliban say
Afghans gather at a mosque where gunmen attacked Shiite Muslims in Guzara district of Herat province on April 30, 2024. A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman said April 30, with local residents claiming the minority Shiite community had been targeted. (Photo by Mohsen KARIMI / AFP) (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Family of American man believed to be held by Taliban asks the UN torture investigator for help
This family photo shows Ryan Corbett holding rabbits with his daughter Miriam and son Caleb in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2020. Lawyers for Corbett, believed held by the Taliban for nearly two years, are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment. Corbett was abducted on August 10, 2022 after returning to Afghanistan, where he and his family had been living at the time of the collapse of the U.S.-based government there one year earlier, on a valid 12-month business visa to pay and train staff. (AP Photo/Anna Corbett)
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Heavy rains set off flash floods, killing 33 people in Afghanistan
Afghan men sit atop of military vehicles as they cross through a flooded area in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province on April 13, 2024, after a flash flood following a heavy rainfall. (Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP) (Photo by SANAULLAH SEIAM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Gloomy youth pull North America, western Europe down happiness list
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Pakistani jets target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan, killing at least eight people
FILE - A Pakistani flag flies on a lookout in Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 27, 2022. Pakistan's air force launched retaliatory airstrikes early Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, on Iran allegedly targeting militant positions, an attack that killed at least seven people and further raised tensions between the neighboring nations. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
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My dream of a democratic Afghanistan came true. The country needs another miracle for it to happen again
Sima Samar
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Taliban holds public execution for two men, killed by gunfire in a stadium as thousands watch
This screen grab from a video taken on January 22, 2024, shows Afghan men leaving a football stadium after attending the public execution by Taliban authorities of two men convicted of murder, in Ghazni. Both men were executed by multiple gunshots to the back in Ghazni city after Supreme Court official Atiqullah Darwish read aloud a death warrant signed by Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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‘We are alive, but we are not living:’ Afghan women speak out against violent Taliban hijab crackdown
Arzoo, 24, whose injuries are pictured here, and her 19-year-old niece were among the first targets of the “bad hijab” crackdown.
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Terrorist threat is high in Africa conflict zones and Afghanistan, and rose in Europe, UN experts say in new report
FILE PHOTO: An Islamic State flag is seen in this picture illustration taken February 18, 2016. Picture taken February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Pakistan is forcing women and girls back into the clutches of the Taliban
Lauryn Oates
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Russia says four survive charter jet crash in Afghanistan, condition of two others unclear
A general view of fog laden west Kabul on January 19, 2024. (Photo by Omer ABRAR / AFP) (Photo by OMER ABRAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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WHO appeals for $1.5-billion to address crises from Gaza to Afghanistan
FILE - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to journalists during a press conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday April 6, 2023. The head of the U.N. health agency says holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
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Ottawa won’t say why it scrapped consultation with veterans on vision for Afghan monument
<div>The federal government won't say why it abandoned a plan to consult with veterans about whether the Taliban takeover in 2021 changed their opinion of a proposed monument to Canada's mission in Afghanistan. An artist rendering of the new national monument to Canada's mission in Afghanistan is pictured during an announcement at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on Monday, June 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick</div>
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Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN report
Afghan women sew clothes at a tailor shop in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on December 13, 2023. (Photo by OMER ABRAR / AFP) (Photo by OMER ABRAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN agency urges Pakistan to halt expelling Afghans during winter
A man walks past trucks loaded with belongings as Afghan nationals are returning home, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) repatriation centres in Azakhel town in Nowshera, Pakistan November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
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Afghan couple waiting to resettle in Canada hiding from Taliban after being deported from Pakistan
*** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT - An Afghan refugee girl peeps out during a search operation to identify alleged illegal immigrants, on the outskirts of Karachi on November 17, 2023. More than 200,000 people have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan, Pakistani border officials said, the vast majority since an October ultimatum given to the 1.7 million Afghans Islamabad said were living illegally in the country. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Online abuse of politically active Afghan women tripled after Taliban takeover, rights group reports
FILE - Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021. Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to a report released Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 by a U.K.-based rights group. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi, File)
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Pakistani police cracking down on migrants are arresting Afghan women and children, activists claim
Police personnel conduct a late night search operation to gather Afghan refugees allegedly living illegally, in the outskirts of Karachi on November 11, 2023. More than 250,000 people have crossed from Pakistan to Afghanistan since an October ultimatum given to the 1.7 million Afghans Islamabad said were living illegally in the country. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghans in Pakistan waiting for resettlement in Canada have been detained and deported
Afghan refugees wait to register in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Pakistan and Iran are Afghanistan’s neighbours, but their treatment of Afghans is shameful
Shoaib Rahim
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At least 7 civilians killed and 20 others wounded after a minibus exploded in the Afghan capital
Afghan policemen inspect a damaged minibus after a blast in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 19, 2018.REUTERS/Parwiz
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Taliban appeal to Afghan private sector to help those fleeing Pakistan’s mass deportation drive
Afghan refugees wait at the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border to be transferred to a camp near the border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. A huge number of Afghan refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Afghans in Pakistan seeking resettlement in Canada fear being deported back to Afghanistan
Afghan refugees in Pakistan walk towards the Pakistan-Afghanistan Torkham border on November 3, 2023, following Pakistan's government decision to expel people illegally staying in the country. More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan since Islamabad issued an ultimatum to 1.7 million people a month ago to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said on November 2. (Photo by Abdul Majeed AFP photographer / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED AFP PHOTOGRAPHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rescue efforts scaled back in quake-hit Afghanistan as villages bury dead
Afghan men search for victims after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, of western Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Saturday's deadly earthquake killed and injured thousands when it levelled an untold number of homes in Herat province. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Rescuers search for survivors days after earthquake hits Afghanistan
An Afghan man sits in a courtyard of his destroyed home after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, of western Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. (AP Photo/Benyamin Barez)
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Afghan Canadians unite to offer support following deadly earthquake
An Afghan man walks by a destroyed home after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, of western Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. (AP Photo/Omid Haqjoo)
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Afghanistan earthquake death toll surpasses 2,000, entire villages destroyed
Afghan residents clear debris as they look for victims' bodies in the rubble of damaged houses after the earthquakes in Siah Ab village, Zendeh Jan district of Herat province on October 8, 2023. The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply again on October 8 to more than 2,000, with nearly 10,000 injured, as rescue workers dug through razed villages for vanishing signs of life. More than 1,300 homes were toppled when magnitude 6.3 quake -- followed by eight strong aftershocks -- jolted hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of the provincial capital of Herat, according to officials. (Photo by Mohsen KARIMI / AFP) (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan rises to 2,000
People gather on the streets in Herat on October 7, 2023. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Afghanistan October 7 morning, the United States Geological Survey said, followed by four large aftershocks with epicentres close to the region's largest city. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ottawa ignored process in awarding contract for monument to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, group says
Petty Officer First Class Charlotte McShane, left, and Sergeant Missy Deschenes unveil the winning design for the national monument to Canada's mission in Afghanistan in Ottawa on Monday, June 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Why Beijing is inching closer to the Taliban
Ruchi Kumar
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Afghanistan’s ban on education for girls isn’t just a step back – it’s a leap into the abyss
Mujtaba Haris
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The Taliban have detained 18 staff, including a foreigner, from an Afghanistan-based NGO, it says
Taliban security personnel stand guard at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on September 15, 2023. The Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopened to pedestrians and vehicles early on September 15, a senior official told AFP, more than a week after it was closed following a gun battle between frontier guards. Islamabad and Kabul have been in diplomatic deadlock since September 6, when border guards opened fire at the crossing -- halfway between the two capitals -- in a dispute over an Afghan outpost being constructed. (Photo by Shafiullah KAKAR / AFP) (Photo by SHAFIULLAH KAKAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. military orders new interviews on the deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack as criticism persists
FILE - Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 26, 2021. The Pentagon’s Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal but weren’t included in the military’s initial investigation. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon, File)
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840,000 Afghans who’ve applied for key US resettlement program still in Afghanistan, report says
FILE - Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. More than 840,000 Afghans who applied for a resettlement program aimed at people who helped the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan are still there waiting, according to a report that lays out the challenges with a program intended to help America's allies in the two-decade long conflict. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Another Canadian who served in Afghanistan files discrimination lawsuit against federal government
Asylum seeker Taiba Nuri is followed by her husband Mahamed Yusef Niazi, from Afghanistan, carrying their seven-month-old daughter Sahaba, cross the border at Roxham Road from New York into Canada Friday March 24, 2023 in Champlain, NY.. The federal government plans to fight allegations of discrimination for the disparate way it approached the Ukrainian and Afghan refugee crises on a single legal front, as another Canadian-Afghan sues for the right to rescue their family from the Taliban.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz