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Taliban Releases Two Americans in Prisoner Exchange

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 21, 2025

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‘This Is a Film About the Women’s Resistance.’ What Bread and Roses Reveals About the Feminist Fight Against the Taliban

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 2, 2024

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A Talisman Against the Taliban

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Post date August 17, 2023

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Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute With Iran

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Post date August 7, 2023

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A former Afghan interpreter for the US military escaped Taliban rule only to be shot and killed in Washington, DC

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Post date July 16, 2023

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Afghan Restaurant For and By Women Creates Jobs Under Taliban Rule

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Post date June 14, 2023

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United Nations to Withdraw From Afghanistan if Taliban Won’t Let Women Work

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 18, 2023

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The Taliban requires that all mannequins’ heads be covered or cut off. Interviews with locals and eerie photos of storefronts offer a glimpse of Afghanistan’s new reality.

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 30, 2023

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The Taliban bought Twitter’s $8 a month blue ticks. They appear to have been removed after outrage.

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 18, 2023

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Taliban officials praise Afghanistan’s first sports car. It has an engine from a 2000 Toyota Corolla.

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Post date January 15, 2023

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Here Are the Implications of Prince Harry Saying That He Killed 25 Taliban Fighters

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 9, 2023

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The Taliban Is Barring Women From Studying at Universities. Here’s What to Know

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 21, 2022

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Taliban on the cusp of securing wheat, gas, and oil deal with Russia, officials say

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Post date August 30, 2022

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The Zawahiri Strike Revealed How the Taliban Has Given Al-Qaeda ‘VIP Treatment’ in Afghanistan

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Post date August 3, 2022

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Taliban Enforcing Face-Cover Order for Female TV Anchors

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 22, 2022

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Mark Esper said Trump wanted to bring the Taliban to DC to have a meeting with them: ‘This idea was terrible in so many ways’

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 9, 2022

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Afghanistan’s Taliban Order Women to Wear the All-Covering Burqa in Public

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Post date May 7, 2022

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Taliban to Stranded, Pregnant New Zealander: ‘You Are Safe Here, Congratulations, We Welcome You’

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Post date January 31, 2022

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Tens of Thousands of Afghans Who Fled The Taliban Are Now Marooned in America’s Broken Immigration Bureaucracy

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 26, 2022

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The Taliban says it’s rewarding the families of suicide bombers who attacked US and Afghan troops money, clothes, and land

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Post date October 20, 2021

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The U.S. and the Taliban Discuss Security and Terrorism Concerns in Doha

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 10, 2021

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Taliban Say They Won’t Work With U.S. to Contain Islamic State

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 9, 2021

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Biden Administration Grapples With How to Send Aid to Afghanistan Without Supporting the Taliban

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 23, 2021

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This artist painted murals to challenge the Taliban after their last rule. Then the militants destroyed them, leaving him fearing for his life.

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Post date September 22, 2021

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The Untold Story of How Afghanistan’s Fighting Female Governor Salima Mazari Escaped the Taliban

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 14, 2021

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Taliban Government Says Women Can Study in Gender-Segregated Universities

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Post date September 12, 2021

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The Taliban tracked down and killed 4 Afghan counterterrorism agents, in one case pulling out all their fingernails, report says

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Post date September 12, 2021

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The Taliban Are Preventing Planes of Evacuees From Leaving Kabul But It’s Not Clear Why

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 6, 2021

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Taliban Resume Domestic Flights at Kabul Airport

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Post date September 5, 2021

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Taliban spokesman says that China will maintain Afghan embassy and ‘beef up’ relationship

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Post date September 4, 2021

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Taliban spokesperson celebrates US withdrawal as a ‘victory’ and says he hopes the group’s fighters will ‘treat the people nicely’

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Post date August 31, 2021

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul so quickly fearing execution by the Taliban that aides who returned from a lunch break wondered where he’d gone

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Post date August 29, 2021

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US officials gave a list of Afghan evacuees to the Taliban, which critics fear could be used as a ‘kill list,’ report says

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Post date August 27, 2021

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2 members of Congress who went to Kabul amid the Taliban takeover faced bipartisan backlash over the surprise visit

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 25, 2021

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Afghan Soldier Killed at Kabul Airport as the Taliban Surround the Last Province Beyond Their Control

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 23, 2021

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Fearful LGBTQ Afghans can’t receive money raised for them through GoFundMe ‘due to Taliban control’

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Post date August 21, 2021

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Evacuation flights for Americans and Afghans in Kabul are not guaranteed to be free as the country plunges into economic chaos in the wake of the Taliban takeover

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 19, 2021

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What Pakistan Stands to Gain From the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 18, 2021

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Trump and some Republicans are praising the Taliban to criticize Biden despite years of chest-thumping over jihadist terrorism

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 18, 2021

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Afghans Who Fled the First Taliban Regime Found Precarious Sanctuary in Pakistan. New Refugees May Get an Even Colder Welcome

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 18, 2021

Tags Afghans', colder, Even, First, fled, found, Pakistan, Precarious, refugees, regime, Sanctuary, Taliban, Welcome

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Trump calls the Taliban ‘good fighters’ who are ‘really smart,’ and erroneously claims the group has been around for 1,000 years

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Post date August 18, 2021

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The Taliban Says It Will Now Respect the Rights of Afghan Women—Despite Its Brutal History

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 17, 2021

Tags Afghan, Brutal, History, Respect, rights, Says, Taliban, Women—Despite

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A photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times captured graphic images of wounded Afghans after Taliban fighters used lethal weapons to maintain crowd control at the airport

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Post date August 17, 2021

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Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was shot in the face by the Taliban, calls on the international community to protect Afghanistan’s women and children

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Post date August 16, 2021

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Female reporter from Afghanistan who teared up over Taliban takeover during Pentagon briefing says Afghan people ‘don’t know what to do’

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Post date August 16, 2021

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Striking photos and video show Taliban fighters holding guns and reciting from the Quran inside Afghanistan’s presidential palace

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Post date August 15, 2021

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Leaves the Country as Taliban Move on Kabul

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 15, 2021

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Biden said he had ‘trust’ in the Afghan military. Weeks later, it’s facing total defeat and a Taliban takeover.

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Post date August 13, 2021

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Stunning Speed of Taliban Offensive Brings Afghan Government’s Control Into Question

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 12, 2021

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The US launched strikes to destroy military equipment the Taliban captured from Afghan security forces

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Post date July 23, 2021

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Top General Says ‘Taliban Takeover’ Possible as U.S. Nears Full Military Withdrawal

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 21, 2021

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Over 1,000 Afghan troops facing advancing Taliban forces retreated and fled the country

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Post date July 5, 2021

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Former US secretary of state says censorship on college campuses keeps him up at night more than the Taliban

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Post date June 13, 2021

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US considers preparing for airstrikes to support Afghan forces if there’s a risk of the Taliban taking over Kabul, report says

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Post date June 10, 2021

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At Least 8 Killed in Kabul Mortar Shell Attack Ahead of Mike Pompeo’s Meeting With Taliban

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 21, 2020

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Prisoners for Peace: Trump Administration Mulls Releasing Taliban Drug Kingpin in Push for Afghan Peace Talks

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 12, 2020

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Trump Says He’s ‘Never Discussed’ Reports of Taliban Bounties With Russian President Vladimir Putin

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 29, 2020

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The American Hostages Left Behind for Trump’s Taliban Peace Deal

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 4, 2020

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President Trump Says He Had a ‘Good’ Talk With Taliban Leader

Post author By crystalg
Post date March 3, 2020

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7-day ‘Reduction of Violence’ Deal Promised by Taliban to Begin Friday Night: State Department Official

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 21, 2020

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper Says Taliban Deal ‘Looks Very Promising,’ But Not Without Risk

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 15, 2020

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Trump set to announce he’s withdrawing 4,000 troops from Afghanistan amid troubled peace talks with Taliban

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Post date December 14, 2019

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Taliban Meets U.S. Peace Envoy for First Time Since Canceled Camp David Visit

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Post date October 5, 2019

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Former Defense Secretary Mattis: Trust Is Key Issue in Taliban Peace Talks

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 8, 2019

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Taliban Claims Responsibility for Suicide Bombing Killing 9 People Outside Pakistani Hospital

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Post date July 21, 2019

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U.S. Envoy Hails Latest Talks With Taliban as the Best Ever

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Post date July 7, 2019

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U.S. and Taliban Negotiators Are Scrambling to Rewrite a Draft on Troop Withdrawal

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Post date July 4, 2019

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Afghan Women Fear Peace With Taliban May Mean War on Them

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Post date January 28, 2019

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U.S. and Taliban Edge Toward Deal to End America’s Longest War

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Post date January 27, 2019

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The Taliban Has Appointed a New Lead Negotiator to ‘Properly Handle’ Talks With U.S.

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Post date January 25, 2019

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Man rescued from Taliban: I thought my captors were kidding when they said Trump was president

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Post date October 17, 2017

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American hostage mom and family freed 5 years after being kidnapped by Taliban

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Post date October 12, 2017

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