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Pakistan To Hold Talks With Afghanistan In Qatar After Latest Strikes

Pakistan officials will hold talks in Qatar Saturday with their Afghan counterparts, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes on its neighbour killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.

International Business Times

New Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Clashes Kill Dozens, Officials Say

Dozens of troops and civilians were killed in a fresh round of border skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, as clashes entered their second week.

International Business Times

Afghanistan says more than a dozen civilians killed in renewed border fighting with Pakistan

The Taliban government in Afghanistan says more than a dozen Afghan civilians were killed and over 100 others were wounded in renewed fighting with Pakistan

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Afghanistan says it killed dozens of Pakistani soldiers in overnight border clashes

Afghanistan said the soldiers were killed in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace.

Euronews

Pakistan closes border with Afghanistan as Taliban claims 58 soldiers killed in major attack

Pakistan shuts its border crossings with Afghanistan as it promises ‘befitting reply like India’

The Independent UK

Trump claims he is talking with Taliban about deal to retake Bagram airbase. Experts say it would amount to reinvasion

Securing the former US airbase in Afghanistan would take a mammoth military operation

The Independent UK

How the Taliban’s propaganda empire consumed Afghan media

In four years, the Taliban have annihilated Afghanistan’s independent media sector and supplanted it with their own propaganda empire and sophisticated digital bots that flood social media with pro-Taliban content.

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After a year of hostility, Pakistan and Afghanistan seek diplomatic reboot

Ishaq Dar visits Kabul as Pakistan and Afghanistan attempt to revive stalled diplomatic ties amid refugee expulsion.

Al Jazeera

Taliban insist Afghan women’s rights are protected despite ban on education

Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, they have banned education for women and girls beyond sixth grade and most employment

The Independent UK

Taliban dismiss Trump’s claim about Chinese presence at Bagram airfield

Afghanistan calls US president’s statement ‘emotional’ and ‘based on unsubstantiated information’

The Independent UK

Afghanistan Says To Begin Work On Huge Gas Pipeline

Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border.

International Business Times

ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Kabul attack

The group said the blast targeted the Taliban’s prosecution service to ‘avenge Muslims’ held in its prisons.

Al Jazeera

Taliban's Morality Ministry Refuses To Cooperate With UN Afghan Mission

The Taliban government's morality ministry said it would not cooperate with the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, calling it "an opposing side".

International Business Times

The Taliban’s harsh new ‘vice and virtue’ laws are a throwback to the oppression of the 1990s – especially for the women of Afghanistan

Until the collapse of Afghanistan’s US-backed government in August 2021, few knew clearly what the Taliban wanted once they had returned to power. Some western officials and observers hoped for a big change from the regime, which had governed the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in the 1990s.

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International Business Times

Afghanistan Taliban Govt Rejects Criticism Of Morality Law As 'Arrogance'

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities responded on Monday to criticism of recently codified morality rules, saying rejecting the legislation without understanding Islamic law showed "arrogance".

The Independent UK

Taliban rejects UN concerns over laws banning women's voices and bare faces in public

The Taliban has rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public

International Business Times

Taliban Told To 'Include Women' In Public Life At UN Talks

Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha.

France 24

Taliban sends its first delegation to a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan

The Taliban government, which has imposed severe restrictions on women since seizing power in 2021 that the UN has described as a system of "gender apartheid", will send its first delegation to the third round of talks on the Afghan crisis starting in Qatar on Sunday.

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The Independent UK

A Taliban delegation attends a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan, with women excluded

A Taliban delegation is attending a United Nations-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after organizers said women would be excluded from the gathering

International Business Times

Afghan Taliban Govt Says To Attend Next Round Of UN Talks In Doha

Taliban authorities will attend the third round of United Nations-hosted talks on Afghanistan in the Qatari capital, a government spokesman said on Sunday, after snubbing an invitation to the previous round.

WEKU

Flash floods have killed more than 300 people in Afghanistan

Floods from heavy seasonal rains have destroyed over 1,000 houses, the U.N. food agency said. A U.N. official said the floods are a reminder of Afghanistan's vulnerability to the climate crisis.

France 24

Afghan floods leave more than 300 dead, thousands homeless, UN says

Flash floods from unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 1,000 houses, the U.N. food agency said Saturday.

The Walrus

Why the Taliban Love Social Media

The extremist group’s strategy to normalize its rule in Afghanistan

Al Jazeera

Tensions high after Pakistan launches cross-border attacks into Afghanistan

Taliban claims to have fired across border following air raids targeting Pakistani Taliban.

Al Jazeera

UN ‘concerned’ Taliban detaining Afghan women for dress code violations

Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says the UN preoccupation with Afghan women is unwarranted.

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