Afghanistan
Taliban officials to attend COP29 in Azerbaijan for the first time since 2021 Afghanistan takeover
The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan's capital Baku will be among the highest-profile multilateral events attended by Taliban administration officials since they took control in Kabul after 20…
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Afghan Taliban pledge to enforce media ban on images of all living things
Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict has so far not been broadly imposed since their…
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Afghanistan sees record high number of international flights passing through its airspace. Here's why
A report by The Independent said that on Thursday, a record 191 flights passed over Afghanistan, with airlines paying the country’s civil aviation ministry $700 per flight for the privilege.
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Big setback for polio eradication in Afghanistan: Taliban suspend virus vaccination campaigns, says UN
The Taliban gave no reason for suspending vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, an Associated Press report said. The news of the suspension was relayed to UN agencies right before the September…
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Republican report slams Biden for 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, damaging 'America's credibility’
The report claims that "America's credibility on the world stage was severely damaged" with the withdrawal and that Biden failed to mitigate the "likely consequences of the decision" to withdraw…
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Afghanistan
Taliban appoint Ikramuddin Kamil as its first acting consul in Mumbai: Report
The appointment of Ikramuddin Kamil is seen as part of efforts to facilitate consular services to the Afghan population in Mumbai
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Taliban officials to attend COP29 in Azerbaijan for the first time since 2021 Afghanistan takeover
The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan's capital Baku will be among the highest-profile multilateral events attended by Taliban administration officials since they took control in Kabul after 20…
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Afghan Taliban pledge to enforce media ban on images of all living things
Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict has so far not been broadly imposed since their…
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Afghanistan sees record high number of international flights passing through its airspace. Here's why
A report by The Independent said that on Thursday, a record 191 flights passed over Afghanistan, with airlines paying the country’s civil aviation ministry $700 per flight for the privilege.
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Big setback for polio eradication in Afghanistan: Taliban suspend virus vaccination campaigns, says UN
The Taliban gave no reason for suspending vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, an Associated Press report said. The news of the suspension was relayed to UN agencies right before the September…
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Republican report slams Biden for 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, damaging 'America's credibility’
The report claims that "America's credibility on the world stage was severely damaged" with the withdrawal and that Biden failed to mitigate the "likely consequences of the decision" to withdraw…
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Suicide bombing in Afghanistan's Kabul kills six, injures 13
According to the Taliban interior ministry, the explosion took place in the southwestern area of Darul Aman.
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Taliban-ruled Afghanistan turns Al-Qaeda haven with bases, munitions depots in heart of Panjshir Valley
The Taliban is helping Al-Qaeda rebuild its operational capability amid a leadership crisis after its leader Al-Zawahiri’s death in 2022, a UN report had said in June 2023.
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UN concerned about Taliban's new vice and virtue law, the discretionary power it gives 'moral inspectors'
Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (…
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Sharia rule a 'lifelong responsibility': Akhundzada on three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
Speaking to the security personnel at the air base in Southern…
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Taliban celebrates three years in power with military parade featuring homemade bombs and soviet tanks
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war,…
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers score diplomatic wins, consolidate power
The most notable example was the Taliban government's participation, for the first time, in United Nations-hosted talks in Qatar in June to discuss economic issues and counter-narcotics efforts…
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Rights of Afghan women is an internal issue: Taliban ahead of UN-led talks
The agenda at the talks, which begin in Qatar on Sunday, would include combating narcotics and economic issues in Afghanistan.
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Afghan women jailed for 'bad hijab' say they faced sexual assault by Taliban
The United Nations had said that many women were detained by the country's Taliban administrators for "bad hijab" in December 2023 and January 2024.
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Flash floods kill at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, damage around 2,000 houses
According to Obaidullah Muradian, who is the head of the province's disaster management department, the flooding has caused an 'emergency situation'
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Taliban cancel Pakistan delegation’s Kandahar visit following airstrikes by Islamabad
According to a document dated 07th of May 2024 from the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul, a copy of which is available with WION, “An official delegation of the government of Pakistan” was to travel to…
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Death toll after catastrophic flash floods in Afghanistan rises to more than 300: UN agency
Taliban's interior ministry, on Saturday (May 11) said that at least 153 people across three provinces have been killed due to the devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan.
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Taliban reject blame on Kabul for deadly attack on Chinese nationals, mock ‘weak Pak military’
The March 26 suicide attack killed five Chinese nationals on the site of a hydropower project in the Dasu region. Pakistan military on Tuesday (May 7) claimed that the attack was planned in…
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Afghanistan: Three police personnel killed, five injured in blast targeting convoy
The blast comes a day after the Taliban said they have managed to quell rare protests over security forces’ attempts to eradicate opium poppy cultivation.
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New video puts Pentagon account of 2021 Kabul airport attack under cloud: Report
Last week, a review team member told journalists on condition of anonymity that 'there was no opportunity to engage the bomber prior to the attack," which "was not preventable at the tactical…
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Taliban appoint Ikramuddin Kamil as its first acting consul in Mumbai: Report
The appointment of Ikramuddin Kamil is seen as part of efforts to facilitate consular services to the Afghan population in Mumbai
Read Article →
Taliban officials to attend COP29 in Azerbaijan for the first time since 2021 Afghanistan takeover
The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan's capital Baku will be among the highest-profile multilateral events attended by Taliban administration officials since they took control in Kabul after 20…
Read Article →
Afghan Taliban pledge to enforce media ban on images of all living things
Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict has so far not been broadly imposed since their…
Read Article →
Afghanistan sees record high number of international flights passing through its airspace. Here's why
A report by The Independent said that on Thursday, a record 191 flights passed over Afghanistan, with airlines paying the country’s civil aviation ministry $700 per flight for the privilege.
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Big setback for polio eradication in Afghanistan: Taliban suspend virus vaccination campaigns, says UN
The Taliban gave no reason for suspending vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, an Associated Press report said. The news of the suspension was relayed to UN agencies right before the September…
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Republican report slams Biden for 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, damaging 'America's credibility’
The report claims that "America's credibility on the world stage was severely damaged" with the withdrawal and that Biden failed to mitigate the "likely consequences of the decision" to withdraw…
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Suicide bombing in Afghanistan's Kabul kills six, injures 13
According to the Taliban interior ministry, the explosion took place in the southwestern area of Darul Aman.
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Taliban-ruled Afghanistan turns Al-Qaeda haven with bases, munitions depots in heart of Panjshir Valley
The Taliban is helping Al-Qaeda rebuild its operational capability amid a leadership crisis after its leader Al-Zawahiri’s death in 2022, a UN report had said in June 2023.
Read Article →
UN concerned about Taliban's new vice and virtue law, the discretionary power it gives 'moral inspectors'
Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (…
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Sharia rule a 'lifelong responsibility': Akhundzada on three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
Speaking to the security personnel at the air base in Southern…
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers score diplomatic wins, consolidate power
The most notable example was the Taliban government's participation, for the first time, in United Nations-hosted talks in Qatar in June to discuss economic issues and counter-narcotics efforts…
Read Article →
Rights of Afghan women is an internal issue: Taliban ahead of UN-led talks
The agenda at the talks, which begin in Qatar on Sunday, would include combating narcotics and economic issues in Afghanistan.
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Afghan women jailed for 'bad hijab' say they faced sexual assault by Taliban
The United Nations had said that many women were detained by the country's Taliban administrators for "bad hijab" in December 2023 and January 2024.
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Flash floods kill at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, damage around 2,000 houses
According to Obaidullah Muradian, who is the head of the province's disaster management department, the flooding has caused an 'emergency situation'
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Taliban cancel Pakistan delegation’s Kandahar visit following airstrikes by Islamabad
According to a document dated 07th of May 2024 from the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul, a copy of which is available with WION, “An official delegation of the government of Pakistan” was to travel to…
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Death toll after catastrophic flash floods in Afghanistan rises to more than 300: UN agency
Taliban's interior ministry, on Saturday (May 11) said that at least 153 people across three provinces have been killed due to the devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan.
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Taliban reject blame on Kabul for deadly attack on Chinese nationals, mock ‘weak Pak military’
The March 26 suicide attack killed five Chinese nationals on the site of a hydropower project in the Dasu region. Pakistan military on Tuesday (May 7) claimed that the attack was planned in…
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Afghanistan: Three police personnel killed, five injured in blast targeting convoy
The blast comes a day after the Taliban said they have managed to quell rare protests over security forces’ attempts to eradicate opium poppy cultivation.
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New video puts Pentagon account of 2021 Kabul airport attack under cloud: Report
Last week, a review team member told journalists on condition of anonymity that 'there was no opportunity to engage the bomber prior to the attack," which "was not preventable at the tactical…
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Old landmine explodes in southeastern Afghanistan; nine children killed
The United Nations in Kabul said Monday that tens of thousands of civilians, including women and children, in Afghanistan, had been killed or injured by landmines and explosive remnants of war …
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Taliban celebrates three years in power with military parade featuring homemade bombs and soviet tanks
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forc
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What are the key events that have taken place in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover?
The Taliban stormed back to power a year ago as US-led forces withdrew from the country, two decades after first ousting the hardline Islamist regime.
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'Digging grave after grave': 1000 killed as powerful earthquake jolts Afghanistan - Latest updates
The death toll from an overnight earthquake in Afghanistan has reached at least 1,000, an official from one of the worst-hit provinces said
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After Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, students complete their studies in Iraq- see pics
Since the Taliban took over Kabul in August 2021, girls have largely been banned from going to secondary school.
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How the Taliban's return has changed Afghan women's lives
After seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2021 the Taliban promised a softer version of the harsh rule that characterised their first stint in power, when women were stripped of most of their
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In Pics: Finally, reunited. Afghan baby lost in airlift chaos reaches family after long wait
The feeling of reuniting with a lost loved one after a long ordeal is heart-warming.
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In pics: Afghan women losing fundamental rights rapidly under Taliban regime
The Taliban on Monday issued a ''religious guideline'' that called on the country's television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors.
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Taliban's show of strength: Military parade with US-made weapons
Taliban forces, aided by captured American armoured vehicles and Russian helicopters, held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday, showcasing their transition from insurgents to a standing army.
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'Don't politicise education and right to work:' Afghan women protest against Taliban government
A group of about 20 women marched from near the ministry of education to the ministry of finance in the Afghan capital.
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In pics | Beauty salon—a safe haven for women in Taliban's Kabul
Mohadessa's beauty salon is one of the last places in Kabul where women can meet outside their households, a bubble of freedom and even frivolity away from the gaze of men. The oasis of feminine in
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Animals, ice-cream, and guns: Locals enjoy day at Kabul Zoo in shadow of armed Taliban
As Afghanistan slowly tried to return to the idea of 'normal', locals flocked to Kabul Zoo to spend a day with animals as armed Taliban kept guard
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Arms, trade and terror: How the Pakistan-Afghanistan-China link was established decades ago
In the winter of 2000, China's former ambassador to Pakistan, Lu Shulin had met the founder of Taliban Mullah Omar as the Communist country quietly manoeuvred in Afghanistan.
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New face of Afghanistan? Women march in support of Taliban
More than 300 women were seen marching on the roads of Afghanistan to lend support to the new regime of Taliban
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Taliban fighter points gun at Afghan woman protesting against non-inclusive government
Afghan women battling for basic rights chanted anti-Pakistan slogans and protested against new government formation by the Taliban in which 17 out of the 33 members are a part of the United Nations
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In Pics: Taliban fighters celebrate in Panjshir Valley
The Taliban on Monday said it had captured the last pocket of resistance in Afghanistan - Panjshir Valley
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'Ambiguous role': Did Russia, Iran supply Taliban fighters with weapons against US troops?
A report claimed Iranian-made armaments were discovered in the hands of Taliban fighters.
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Taliban and Afghan flags side by side as fans enjoy a game of cricket at Kabul International Stadium
A near-full house turned out to watch Afghanistan's top cricketers play in a trial match Friday, with Taliban and Afghan flags waving side by side in what sports officials called a show of national
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Who is Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar that can lead new Afghanistan government?
As the Taliban battles rebel fighters in the Panjshir Valley and strives to ward off economic collapse, Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government set to be announced short
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Taliban faces 5 major challenges in Afghanistan
Taliban has to ensure “safe, secure, and orderly departure from Afghanistan of Afghans and all foreign nationals”.
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