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10/1/2021 1:08:33 PM
Pakistan wants the European Union to revise its plan to step up human rights monitoring under the new Taliban leadership in Afghanistan, in part by taking into account socio-economic concerns in a country hoping to emerge from decades of war and instability
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9/30/2021 9:23:38 PM
The Pentagon plans to rely on air strikes to prevent a resurgence of Al-Qaeda now that US troops have left Afghanistan, but experts and some lawmakers are skeptical about the effectiveness of the so-called "over-the-horizon" strategy
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9/30/2021 6:32:59 PM
The Taliban on Thursday ordered their fighters to leave private homes they had taken over during last month's blitz when the group seized control of Afghanistan, an apparent effort to impose order among Taliban ranks
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9/30/2021 1:30:55 PM
Daniel Byman, Georgetown University political science professor and a member of the National Commission on the 9/11 attacks, talked to Ahram Online about the future of the Taliban, their relationship to Al-Qaeda, and whether the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan gives the terrorist group freedom of action to renew attacks on the West and the region.
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9/29/2021 12:18:55 PM
While the economy teeters on the brink of collapse, vendors at an opium market in southern Afghanistan say prices for their goods have skyrocketed since the Taliban takeover
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9/28/2021 7:36:24 PM
In their first congressional testimony on the tumultuous final months of America's longest war, top U.S. military officers on Tuesday acknowledged misjudging the fragility of Afghanistan's army and said they believed the U.S. should have kept at least several thousand troops in the country to prevent a rapid takeover by the Taliban
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9/27/2021 9:53:52 PM
The Taliban on Monday banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their edict is in line with Shariah, or Islamic, law
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9/27/2021 9:08:51 PM
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel next month to Pakistan and India, bitter rivals that have clashed on the way forward in Afghanistan, the State Department announced Monday.
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9/27/2021 5:25:09 PM
The dispute between Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers and its former government over who should speak at the United Nations' annual meeting of world leaders finally has an answer: no one
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9/26/2021 5:46:17 PM
Turkey expects the government in Afghanistan to be inclusive before any agreement can be made about operating Kabul s strategic airport, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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9/26/2021 4:57:23 PM
It s been little more than a month since Kalashnikov-toting Taliban fighters in their signature heavy beards, hightop sneakers and shalwar kameezes descended on the Afghan capital and cemented their takeover. Now they re vying for a seat in the club of nations and seeking what no country has given them as they attempt to govern for a second time international recognition of their rule.
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9/26/2021 9:33:56 AM
At a wide-ranging news conference and in his speech afterward at the UN General Assembly, Lavrov criticized the Biden administration including for its hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan
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9/25/2021 3:28:24 PM
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas gave Israel one year to withdraw from occupied territory or he said he would no long recognize the Israel based on pre-1967 borders
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9/23/2021 8:04:00 PM
Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Al-Mangoush’s statement came in a virtual roundtable organised by the United Nations Development Programme that was focused on the 'pursuit of sustainable peace' in Libya
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9/22/2021 1:00:57 PM
The Taliban and IS are enemies, and the attacks have raised the specter of wider conflict between the country's new Taliban rulers and their long-time rivals
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9/22/2021 12:03:39 PM
The meeting, between the top US military officer and his Russian counterpart, comes at a crucial time in the wake of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan
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9/21/2021 5:21:20 PM
Biden also said the United States would be prepared to use force "if necessary" but that military power must be a 'tool of last resort'
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9/21/2021 4:01:41 PM
Afghanistan's central bank has access to only a fraction of its usual financing, and is cut off from the international banking system and its own foreign currency reserves
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9/21/2021 1:41:42 PM
The move came after the speaker of the legislature ratified an elections law earlier this month
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9/19/2021 10:43:32 AM
A clinic opened by the Japanese physician in the eastern province of Nangarhar resumed operations on Aug. 21 after being closed on Aug. 15, when the Taliban captured Kabul
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