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Taliban raids and suspends Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station
The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...
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Afghanistan's ruling Taliban vow to stay united despite "enemy" bids to cause rifts
KABUL, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and the people, a spokesman said, ruling out the ...
The National Interest12d
The Taliban Is Selling America’s Lost Afghanistan Arsenal
One of those failures took place in August 2021, when former President Joe Biden presided over an unmitigated disaster while shambolically withdrawing from Afghanistan. After 20 years of fighting ...
The Daily Telegraph14d
The maternity ward standoff that exposes Taliban hypocrisy towards women
Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, the fundamentalist group has banned education for women and girls post-primary school. Women cannot go to parks, and beauty salons and ...
Voice of America22d
Islamic State claims killing of Chinese national in Afghanistan
Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based ...
ABC News23d
2 Americans freed from Afghanistan in prisoner swap, family and Taliban say
Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released. Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released from Taliban custody in a prisoner swap ...
Fox News24d
Mark Milley pardoned: General at center of Afghanistan withdrawal predicted it wouldn't be a Saigon moment
Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021. Milley accepted the pardon, saying in a statement he does not want to spend the remainder of ...
The Washington Post24d
Americans freed in Afghanistan-U.S. prisoner swap, Taliban says
Two Americans have been released from Afghanistan, their families said Tuesday, as the Taliban announced a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry ...
The Washington Post28d
CNN settles defamation lawsuit over Afghanistan report
CNN agreed on Friday afternoon to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by security contractor Zachary Young, who argued that his reputation and business were destroyed after he was featured in a ...
Voice of America25d
Cutting Afghanistan funds 'biggest threat to helping women,' aid chief warns
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women, the chief of a top aid agency warned Sunday. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee ...
The New York Times24d
2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap
Jan. 21, 2025 In one of its final acts, the Biden administration secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in a prisoner swap for a Taliban member imprisoned in the United States on ...
WDRB25d
Taliban say 2 Americans held in Afghanistan were freed in a prisoner exchange
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking ...