Mark Milley pardoned: general at center of Afghanistan withdrawal predicted it wouldn't be a Saigon moment
President Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Gen. Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic ...
Taliban deputy foreign minister calls for girls' high schools to open
The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the ...
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns
The head of a major international aid agency is warning that funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping ...
Taliban deputy tells leader there is no excuse for education bans on Afghan women and girls
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...
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For Trump’s national security adviser, Afghanistan still looms large
Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to ...
India steps up diplomatic relations with the Taliban as rival Pakistan loses influence in Afghanistan
India and Afghanistan have taken a significant step in securing their first high-level bilateral engagement. No foreign ...
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Biden called families of 3 Americans held by Taliban to tell them he hasn't reached deal to free them
Mahmood Habibi disappeared in Afghanistan in 2022, and the Taliban denied abducting him. In a public notice posted by the FBI in August 2024, the agency said it "believed" that Habibi was taken by ...
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Tiny Steps for TAPI in the Taliban’s Afghanistan
The Taliban authorities say that around 3 kilometers of the pipeline has been completed, out of more than 770 km needed to ...
CNN settles defamation lawsuit over Afghanistan report
The matter was resolved just four hours after a Florida jury had found the network liable for defamation and awarded $5 ...
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Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai Decries Taliban's Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law.
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US in negotiations with Taliban to swap Americans in Afghanistan for prisoner in Guantanamo
The Biden administration reportedly has been negotiating with the Taliban to swap three Americans being held in Afghanistan for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who is alleged to have been a close ...
Afghanistan: Women become 'invisible' under Taliban
Since taking power in 2021, Taliban leaders have issued numerous decrees preventing women and girls in Afghanistan from taking part in all aspects of public life, including a ban on speaking in public ...