India Today

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President Joe Biden is on the back foot. His top priority is to evacuate US personnel and its collaborators. The US will push the Taliban to form an inclusive government and to protect minorities and women’s rights as well as ensuring the regime does

NPR

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The insurgents' every action is being watched closely. They insist they have changed and won't impose the same restrictions they did when they last ruled, but many remain skeptical.

NPR

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In another sign of the dramatic change wrought by the Taliban's sudden takeover, Paralympic athletes now have no way to travel to Japan.

NPR

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About 200 people, including some Americans, departed the Afghan capital on Thursday. Officials said this was not an evacuation flight, but rather that people were leaving of their own free will.

Futurity

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As the US withdraws its troops in Afghanistan, the question now is whether the Afghan government—or another international force—can stop a resurgent Taliban from using violence to seize power, says Robert Crews. Crews, professor of history in the Sch

NPR

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In a sudden, final offensive, the Taliban pushed into Kabul, as Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president left the country and U.S. diplomatic personnel beat a quick retreat from the embassy compound.

India Today

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Afghanistan was always a graveyard for empires and now of reputations. The USA has learnt it the hard way. As has India. Till a couple of years ago, we sat at the head table of nations deciding the future of this turmoil-ridden country. However, a fo

BBC History Magazine

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Afghanistan’s present and future has been a subject of much discussion, with many lamenting the lack of understanding of the region’s history and its tortured relations with western powers. As historian Olivette Otele (@OlivetteOtele) tweeted, “I wis

Chicago Tribune

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The latest U.S. casualties in America's interminable war in Afghanistan are three Special Forces soldiers who had been tasked with helping Afghan troops wrest from the Taliban the southeastern city of Ghazni. On Tuesday their convoy set off a roadsid

New Internationalist

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Akhundzada is the unlikely ‘friendly face’ of the Taliban as it takes power in Afghanistan after the collapse of the trillion-dollar US occupation. He was appointed supreme leader in 2016 after the assassination of his predecessor in a US drone attac

Guardian Weekly

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As the last remaining US troops left Kabul this week, focus turned to what form the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan will take. While the group has insisted it wants to engage with other nations and allow citizens more freedoms than its previous incarnation

FactCheck.org

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Eleven American military members were killed in Afghanistan in 2020, including four in combat. But, as the U.S. nears its Aug. 31 deadline for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, a social media post falsely claims that there weren't any American

NPR

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As the Taliban struggles to maintain control over Afghanistan, India may become an unlikely ally to help them stabilize.

The Christian Science Monitor

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The peaceful mediation used by Afghans to end a dispute over a presidential election helps set a norm that the Taliban cannot defeat.

Marie Claire Australia

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In 2017, Masomah Ali Zada and her family were forced to flee Afghanistan for France after she was threatened by the Taliban for cycling. “It was very difficult to go out cycling in sporting gear,” she recalled. “A lot of people felt it was wrong of u

Global Voices

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"The truth is that the image circulating is fake. It belongs to Wakil Kohsar and was taken in 2016, two years ago."

Evening Standard

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On June 24, the flags were lowered in Afghanistan as the last British Army units left — it was behind closed doors, press not invited. It was the end of a commitment of nearly 20 years, at the cost of 457 lives of servicemen and women, many, many mo

India Today

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Julian Sher’s documentary follows Canadian journalist Graeme Smith as he offers a first-hand account of the Taliban takeover and how NATO failed Afghanistan and its women. Proshoon Rahman’s documentary is one of the most thorough pieces of journalism

NPR

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The attack struck on the third anniversary of the day that the U.S.-led NATO coalition officially ended its combat mission in Afghanistan.

New Zealand Listener

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In 2001, Prime Minister Helen Clark committed New Zealand soldiers to Afghanistan in the wake of the Twin Towers attacks and as part of the UN-sanctioned effort to hunt down al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, believed then to be hiding in Afghanistan.

Los Angeles Times

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KABUL, Afghanistan - It might seem like an inauspicious moment to try for a truce. But Afghan President Ashraf Ghani did so Sunday, declaring a cease-fire to coincide with this week's Eid al-Adha holiday, one of the most important occasions on the Mu

The Independent

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The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. She died at my side. Anja weighed hea

NPR

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His visit to restart peace talks with the Taliban comes amid debate about the role of U.S. troops in the region after Trump quickly began withdrawing forces from northeastern Syria earlier this month.

NPR

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The rest of the country will vote Saturday. But one journalist says that after a gunman pulled off a surprise attack in Kandahar, "there's a huge security vacuum, people are very nervous and worried."

NPR

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The Islamist militants have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government in Kabul — but a Taliban spokesman said Monday that they were speaking with the U.S., along with several other countries.

Guardian Weekly

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Ajmal Haikalzada, 44, first became a refugee when his artist father left Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. In 2001, as a musician, he returned, singing and performing across the country of his birth after the US toppled the Talib

India Today

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After a boom in GDP growth in the first 10 years of the US occupation, economic growth collapsed Mid-1990s: The Taliban emerges from seminaries in Pakistan and Afghanistan (the name derives from the Arabic word ‘talib’,meaning ‘student’) and overru

NPR

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Conflicting reports have emerged from an Afghan raid on Taliban-controlled territory. The government says it targeted a militant meeting, while many residents say the bombs hit a religious gathering.

History of War

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Author: Antonio Giustozzi Publisher: Hurst Price: £18.99 Format: Paperback Released: May 2022 The fall of the Taliban was as swift and brutal as the collapse of New York’s Twin Towers in the 9/11 terrorist attack, the event that triggered the US-led

Global Voices

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Image of officer Mohammad Musa. Widely shared on social media. Of the tens of thousands of Afghan servicemen that have died over the course of one of the modern world's most deadly insurgencies, very few have become legends on social media. Mohammad