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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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Taliban ban women from hearing each other's voice while praying: Report
While the diktat currently applies to prayers, experts fear that it will curtail women's freedom to talk to each other in public, thus further pushing them out of society.
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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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Taliban voice concern on unrest in Pakistan, urge Islamabad to hold dialogue as PTI protests grow
In Pakistan, over 30 individuals affiliated with Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, including lawyers, were arrested on Saturday (October 05) night after they gathered at the…
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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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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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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 supreme leader says women will soon be stoned to death for adultery
Labelling Western human rights defenders 'representatives of the devil', Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada said the group would "flog women in public. We will stone them to death…
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Taliban condemn 'reckless' air strikes by Pakistan that it claims killed eight, including women and children
The Taliban spokesperson added in the statement, "Pakistan shouldn't blame Afghanistan for the lack of control, incompetence, and problems in its own territory"
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Taliban publicly execute convicted murderer by gunfire in sports stadium
The execution took place amid tight security around the stadium, in front of the convict's family and also the family of the victim, including women and children
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Taliban release Austrian far-right activist held in Afghanistan
As per the media, Fritz was a founding member of the country's National Democratic Party (NDP), an extreme-right group banned in 1988
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Al-Qaeda intensifying presence in Afghanistan, setting up new training facilities, says UN report
However, it mentioned that in its assessment, "the group cannot at present project sophisticated attacks at long range."
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Afghanistan: India participates in first international meeting hosted by Taliban regime
In 2021, the Taliban reclaimed power, but it didn't get recognition from the international community
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Pakistan closes key crossing into Afghanistan to truck drivers. They will have to show documents
Noor Mohammad Hanif, director of the information and culture department in Nangarhar province, said that officials at the Torkham crossing began asking for passports and visas from Afghan truck…
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Afghanistan: Taliban detain and lash young girls for violating hijab rules
The announcement by the officials of the ministry was released after a meeting with the school principals in the eighteenth district of Kabul
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UK's broken promises: Afghan Special Forces left in limbo, face threat of return to Taliban
When the Taliban took over, these soldiers sought refuge in Pakistan. However, now they face expulsion as Pakistan intends to deport Afghan refugees
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Afghan diplomat in India asserts allegiance to Republic amid Taliban claims
The development comes at a time when Taliban's Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai declared in an interview with Afghanistan's state broadcaster RTA that "the embassy of Afghanistan in India will soon…
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Online abuse targeting Afghan women increased since Taliban takeover, says report
The Afghan Witness collected and analysed more than 78,000 posts that politically targeted women between June 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021, and in the same period in 2022.
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Pakistan says it is extending stay of nearly 1.4 million Afghan refugees till the end of 2023
The move marks a step back from an earlier Pakistani assertion that asked all foreigners lacking legal documents to voluntarily leave the country within a month.
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Tens of thousands of Afghans rush to leave Pakistan as Nov 1st deadline looms
Starting Wednesday, the Pakistani government will start arresting undocumented Afghans and taking them to new holding centres, where they will be processed before being forcibly made to return to…
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Afghanistan: Islamic State group claims responsibility for blast that killed two in Kabul
The explosion occurred Thursday evening at a commercial centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul, an enclave of the historically oppressed Shiite Hazara community, according to police…
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Taliban to join China's Belt and Road forum, elevating ties
Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those focussed on Afghanistan, but the Belt and Road Forum is among the highest-profile multilateral summits it…
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Fresh earthquake hits Afghanistan, tremors of magnitude 6.3 felt near Herat: USGS
The fresh earthquake in Afghanistan has come on the heels of another one that killed thousands in the country
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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
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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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Taliban ban women from hearing each other's voice while praying: Report
While the diktat currently applies to prayers, experts fear that it will curtail women's freedom to talk to each other in public, thus further pushing them out of society.
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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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Taliban voice concern on unrest in Pakistan, urge Islamabad to hold dialogue as PTI protests grow
In Pakistan, over 30 individuals affiliated with Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, including lawyers, were arrested on Saturday (October 05) night after they gathered at the…
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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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EU court rules Afghan women can claim asylum based on nationality alone; no proof of persecution needed
In Austria, authorities denied asylum to two Afghan women who had applied in 2015 and 2020. These women appealed the decision to the Austrian Supreme Administrative Court, which then requested a…
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Taliban bought Iranian jammers to block news channels critical of regime's terrible ways
Afghanistan International Television (AITV) - one of the most prominent anti-establishment voices in the country has been forced to shut down broadcast for over a week due to the orbital jammers…
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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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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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Taliban reject UN's criticism of vice and virtue laws, urge 'acknowledgement of Islamic values'
Last week, the Taliban issued the first set of laws to discourage vice and promote virtue. These included a requirement for women to conceal their face, body and voice outside the home.
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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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Taliban's new diktat for women: No singing, reciting or reading aloud in public to 'avoid temptation'
As per the new law, a woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. The laws also forbid women to look at men they are not related to…
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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…
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Taliban disavow many Afghan diplomatic missions abroad
The Taliban foreign ministry said that documents issued by missions in London, Berlin, Belgium, Bonn, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Poland, Australia, Sweden, Canada and Norway. …
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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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Afghanistan tourist attack: ISIS claims responsibility for shooting that killed six
In a statement on Telegram, ISIS said that its fighters shot at Christian tourists and their Shiite companions with machine guns
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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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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: 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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Anti-Taliban forces train in Panjshir Valley: A challenge for the Taliban in Afghanistan
Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces took part in a military training in Panjshir province on August 30, 2021. See pictures here:
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In pics | America's longest war in Afghanistan comes to a close after 20 years
The US on Monday finally ended its 20 year-war in Afghanistan after its military C-17 aircraft carried the last American troops out of Afghanistan on Monday, marking the formal end of the longest w
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