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Harris hits out at Trump’s Taliban deal as Republicans release damning report on Biden Afghanistan withdrawal

Harris’s campaign says Trump ‘cut a bad deal’ with the Taliban in 2020, when the former president agreed the US would withdraw from Afghanistan by May 2021

The Independent UK

Afghan family refused UK visas to join son, 13, evacuated from Kabul

Exclusive: Home Office rejects application from family who were separated from son in chaotic 2021 evacuation

The Guardian - UK

The Carmignac Photojournalism Award 14th Edition – 'No Woman's Land – An Intimate Look into the Battle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan'

The winning project documented the experiences of woman living under the Taliban since they retook power in 2021

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ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Kabul attack

The group said the blast targeted the Taliban’s prosecution service to ‘avenge Muslims’ held in its prisons.

Al Jazeera

Suicide Bomber Kills 6, Injures 13 In Afghan Capital

A suicide bombing in Kabul leaves six dead and thirteen injured, sparking concerns about security. Authorities respond swiftly as the international communi...

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Here’s how we can help oppressed women and girls in Afghanistan

Letters: Simon Diggins on offering resettlement and educational opportunities to those living under the Taliban regime and Margaret Owen on connecting schoolgirls in Britain and Kabul

The Guardian - UK

Afghan women erased by the Taliban as the international community looks on

The oppression of Afghan women continues unabated before the eyes of the world. The Taliban imposed severe new restrictions earlier this month, with women not only obliged to cover their faces but now forbidden from raising their voices, singing or reading aloud in public. Western countries – led by the…

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Afghanistan is a US election issue. Will its refugees’ voices be heard?

On the third anniversary of the US troop withdrawal, advocates push candidates for legal pathways for Afghan refugees.

Al Jazeera

Germany deports 28 Afghanistan nationals for first time since Taliban takeover in 2021

A plane carrying the Afghan nationals left Leipzig for Kabul on Friday

The Independent UK

Germany deports Afghan nationals for first time since Taliban takeover

Germany on Friday reversed a policy to stop returning migrants to Afghanistan due to human rights concerns after the Taliban took power in 2021. The first group of 28 Afghans who were “convicted offenders”, according to German authorities, boarded a Kabul-bound Friday as the Germany’s coalition government faces pressure to…

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Trump Campaign Warned About Photography At Arlington Cemetery

Controversy at Arlington National Cemetery during a Trump campaign event sparks criticism and calls for transparency. Pentagon's investigation into Kabul a...

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Hollywoodgate review – chilling fly-on-the-wall glimpse of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul

Granted unprecedented, if strictly limited access, Egyptian documentarian Ibrahim Nash’at captures the Taliban’s inner circle after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Guardian - UK

‘An island of freedom’: Inside the secret beauty salons of Afghanistan

In Kabul, an army of clandestine beauticians is keeping morale alive for women under the Taliban-led government.

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Taliban celebrates three years of return to power in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s rulers celebrate the anniversary of their return to power amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.

The Conversation

3 years after fall of Kabul, US Congress has still not acted to secure future of more than 70,000 Afghan evacuees in US

Amid the chaos that followed the U.S. pullout of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, the Biden administration declared that evacuated Afghans would be allowed to enter the U.S. via humanitarian parole. The initiative would provide them with temporary access to American soil, but not with a pathway to permanent residency.

International Business Times

Three Years After Taliban Return, Economic Woes Loom Large

Despite three years of improved security following the end of the Taliban's insurgency, Afghanistan's economy remains stagnant and its population is in the grips of a worsening humanitarian crisis.

France 24

Taliban celebrates three years since returning to power in Afghanistan

Taliban authorities on Wednesday marked the third anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with celebrations and a military parade outside a former US air base near Kabul boasting Soviet-era tanks. The Taliban government has consolidated its grip on the country and imposed strict restrictions on women, a policy…

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The Independent UK

A timeline of events in Afghanistan in the 3 years since the Taliban's takeover

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U

International Business Times

Taliban Mark Three Years Since Takeover Of Afghanistan

Taliban authorities were set to celebrate the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan on Wednesday, with a military parade at a former US military base and festivities in key cities.

The Guardian - UK

My Dear Kabul review – inspirational resilience in an Afghan women’s writing group

The collective diary of 21 women, compiled using WhatsApp messages, is an intimate, courageous chronicle of life as it unfolds under Taliban rule

International Business Times

Faceless Mannequins Show Off Clothes In Afghanistan

In Afghanistan's capital, shop windows display dazzling ball gowns and three-piece wedding suits -- with the face of each mannequin covered.

The Independent UK

British troops in Lebanon on standby for evacuation ‘on same scale’ as Kabul

Hundreds of servicemen and women are ready in the UK to be deployed to the region at short notice as fears for an all-out war grow

Al Jazeera

Afghanistan’s first female Olympic breakdancer: ‘I want my big dream’

Defiant Afghan refugee Manizha Talash fled the Taliban for her chance to dance on the world stage.

France 24

Afghan sister cyclists fly the flag of a fallen country at the Paris Olympics

Fariba and Yulduz Hashimi fled Kabul after the city once again fell to the Taliban in 2021. Three years later, the sister cyclists are riding alongside one another in the 2024 Paris Olympics women’s road race on Sunday, proudly bearing the black, red and green Afghan tricolour torn down by…

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