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Pakistan and Afghanistan agree Eid ceasefire as Kabul holds mass funeral for airstrike victims

Five-day truce has been brokered by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar

The Independent UK

Pakistan to pause Afghan strikes for Eid, two days after deadly Kabul attack

Five-day cessation announced as mass funeral held for some of hundreds of victims of airstrike on rehab centre

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan is starting its fifth year of Taliban rule. Here are 5 things to know

The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan

The Independent UK

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'Nearest thing to hell': British man held by Taliban with wife describes horrific conditions in Afghan jail

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 76, were captured by the terrorist group while returning to their home in central Afghanistan

Evening Standard

US Drops Bounties On Top Afghan Taliban Officials

The United States has removed multimillion-dollar bounties on leaders of Afghanistan's feared Haqqani militant network, including the current Taliban interior minister, the State Department and the Taliban government said.

International Business Times

US lifts bounties on senior Taliban figures, Kabul officials say

Taliban say the US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government

The Independent UK

US lifts $10m reward for major Taliban leader Haqqani

The removal of the bounty comes days after Afghan group releases US citizen.

Al Jazeera

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We cannot cheer on Afghanistan’s cricket team when Afghan women are being silenced

With Afghanistan set to play England in a tournament, we are calling for a boycott of a team that sportswashes the Taliban’s brutal campaign of misogyny

The Guardian - UK

At least 10 Taliban fighters killed in Kabul ministry attack as tensions with Pakistan escalate

Attack comes just days after Taliban minister Khalil Haqqani was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul

The Independent UK

Taliban’s Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani killed: Why it matters

The most high-profile assassination in Afghanistan since 2021 has sparked questions over divisions within the Taliban.

Al Jazeera

Thousands Attend Funeral Of Afghan Minister

Thousands of Afghans on Thursday attended the funeral of the refugees minister, AFP journalists saw, after he was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul the day before in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

International Business Times

Thousands attend the funeral of a Taliban minister killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber

Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Taliban government minister killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing the previous day

The Independent UK

Taliban Minister Killed In Kabul Suicide Bombing Funeral

Funeral of Khalil Haqqani, Afghan minister killed in ISIS bombing, mourned by officials in Garda Serai.

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Taliban Leaders Show Contrasting Messages Amid International Criticism

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan deliver contrasting messages, navigating internal divisions and external relationships.

The Hindu

India’s invitation to Taliban envoy in UAE is ‘routine’, there is no change in stance, say officials

The invitation from the Indian Embassy in the UAE to the acting Afghan Ambassador and Taliban envoy Badruddin Haqqani, for the Republic Day reception is “routine”, official sources said

The Independent UK

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

A rare public show of division is emerging in the ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban

The Times of India

Taliban divisions inflamed by sweeping restrictions on women

The Taliban’s sweeping orders to restrict women’s rights have exacerbated divisions in the militant group to the point where rival factions are surrounding themselves with loyal troops, according to people familiar with the matter.

Bangkok Post

No justification for engaging with Taliban

In the year since the United States' disgraceful abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the country has gone down precisely the path any logical observer would have predicted: a medieval, jihadist, terrorist-sheltering emirate has been established. The US will incur costs for betraying its Afghan allies for a long time…

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: After a year under Taliban rule, Afghans feel the price of peace.

Afghanistan today under Taliban rule virtually mirrors what the country was like before the American invasion in October 2001. Girls cannot attend secondary school. Once again, women no longer work as lawyers, judges or police officers. Men must wear beards and traditional Afghan garb.

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