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How Afghan evacuees are faring in Australia 18 months after fleeing Afghanistan

A survey of Afghan refugees who fled the country after the fall of Kabul in 2021 finds they feel welcome and supported in Australia, but are struggling with the cost of living.

ABC News

Livid London MP slams ministers for ‘abandoning’ five British children hiding from Taliban in Kabul

A furious London MP slammed ministers on Tuesday for “abandoning” five British children in Kabul under the Taliban’s brutal rule.

Evening Standard

An Afghan girls' education activist has been arrested, the U.N. says

Matiullah Wesa is the founder and president of Pen Path — a local nongovernmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library. He was reportedly detained on Monday.

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Prominent girls’ rights activist arrested in Afghanistan

A prominent activist who campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been arrested by Taliban authorities in Kabul.

Evening Standard

What is happening with Afghan refugees in the UK?

About 9,000 of the people who arrived in Britain since the fall of Kabul are still living in temporary accommodation

The Guardian - UK

Ministers giving Afghan refugees 'cold shoulder' with forced hotel evictions, MP fumes

The Government announced today it is to give Afghan refugees, who fled to the UK following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021,It has sparked concerns some - including children - could be left homeless.

Daily Mirror

UN says Afghan girls' education activist arrested in Kabul

The United Nations says an Afghan rights activist who has campaigned for girls' education has been arrested in Kabul

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U.N. says prominent Afghan girls' education advocate arrested in Kabul

The United Nations said on Tuesday that a prominent Afghan girls' education activist was arrested in Kabul this week and called on Taliban authorities to clarify the reason for his detention.

Reuters

House GOP to subpoena Blinken over Afghanistan dissent cable

House Republicans plan to deliver a subpoena to Secretary of State Antony Blinken for classified cables related to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Suicide bomber kills 6 people near foreign ministry in Kabul

A suicide bomber has struck near the foreign ministry in the Afghan capital, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen

The Independent UK

Six killed in suicide attack near Afghan foreign ministry

At least six people killed and several others wounded in the second attack near the foreign ministry since January.

Al Jazeera

Blast near Afghan foreign ministry kills 6, hurts several

At least six civilians were killed by a suicide attack in Afghanistan's capital on Monday, near a security checkpoint leading to the foreign ministry, according to police.

Reuters

Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes

Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan's girls and women digitally in their homes.

Reuters

Afghan pilot who served with British forces and fled to UK in small boat facing deportation to Rwanda

Air force lieutenant says he is one of many Afghan forces personnel ‘forgotten’ by coalition forces after the fall of Kabul

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Blinken Blasted by Republicans over Withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Republican Party has raised the issue of the “chaotic” withdrawal from Afghanistan, slamming Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday during a hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations. Representative Mike McCaul, the new Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, raised the August 26, 2021 attack outside…

Bangkok Post

Afghanistan earthquake kills at least 11, 9 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwest Pakistan by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck in neighbouring Afghanistan late on Tuesday, a Pakistani government official said.

Al Jazeera

At least 13 dead after earthquake jolts Afghanistan, Pakistan

Tremors of the magnitude 6.5 quake were felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi.

Bangkok Post

Afghan school year starts with no classes

KABUL: Afghanistan’s schools reopened on Tuesday for the new academic year, but no classes were held as students were unaware of the start and hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending class.

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Radio France Internationale

Taliban get crash course from India on culture, leadership and diplomacy

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have taken part in an online course on Indian culture, diplomacy and business suggesting New Delhi is keen to engage with the Islamic militia that seized Kabul in 2021. But Delhi argues the fully online syllabus was free of cost and not exclusively aimed at the…

The Guardian - UK

Female footballers who fled Afghanistan in 2021 criticise BBC’s ‘false footballers’ article

Players criticise the BBC for questioning their integrity and naming individuals without consent

Daily Mirror

Migrants waiting to cross Channel thank 'hero' Gary Lineker for opposing immigration bill

Ahmad Harris, who fled Kabul six months ago and has family in the UK, has compared the BBC's move to silence Gary Lineker to the tactics of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Evening Standard

Former US marine breaks down as he describes ‘catastrophe’ of 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan

Active service members and veterans have provided first-hand testimony in the House of Representatives about the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground.

Wales Online

Veterans reveal horror of deadly bomb attack on men, women and children at airport

Two suicide bombers caused horrific slaughter as huge crowds swamped Kabul airport during US withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Guardian - US

Veterans give searing testimony on US withdrawal from Afghanistan at hearing

Witnesses described the chaos and panic of the 2021 US departure during the Republican inquiry, which had people in tears at times

WEKU

An injured Marine gives searing testimony on the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Marine sergeant, who survived a terrorist bombing on the Abbey gate at the Kabul airport in 2021, recounted chaos and atrocities he witnessed. Veterans urged Congress to help those left behind.

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