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Afghan women once worked in this popular national park. Now they’re not even allowed to visit

Afghanistan’s Band-e-Amir National Park was known for having employed the country’s first-ever female park rangers. Now, women won’t even be allowed to visit, let alone work there, as the Taliban ...
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First on CNN: 2 Americans held by the Taliban have been released, sources tell CNN

Two Americans who had been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and are en route to Qatar, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Two of the sources tell CNN that one of ...
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‘We have your location’: The Taliban death threats hounding this Afghan woman

“Where do you want me to rape you?” another message read. More than 5,000 calls and messages bombarded Marzieh Hamidi’s phone in the days after the Afghan Taekwondo champion dared to suggest that her ...
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First on CNN: Afghanistan withdrawal investigation launched by top Republican on House Foreign Affairs Committee

The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday requested from the State Department a vast number of documents related to the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, ...
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Afghanistan stuns England in one of the biggest ever sporting upsets

The pantheon of great sporting upsets gained another monument on Sunday as Afghanistan roundly defeated England by 69 runs at the ICC Cricket World Cup in Delhi, India. It was an upset of immense ...
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Their family was ripped apart at the Kabul airport. Nearly 3 years later their greatest wish has come true

In late April, Albina Roman and her daughter landed at Los Angeles International Airport and saw the rest of their family for the first time in nearly three years. In the terminal, 8-year-old Muhsenat ...
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Top Republican investigating Biden administration Afghanistan withdrawal requests transcribed interviews

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul announced Sunday that he had formally requested a series of transcribed interviews from current and former State Department officials as part of his panel ...
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August 16, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news

Like hundreds of other Kabul residents, Aisha Ahmad scurried to the Hamid Karzi International Airport on Monday, hoping to catch a flight out of the country as it became apparent the government would ...
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From the World Cup sidelines, Afghanistan’s women’s team is fighting for the right to play

Half-time and thousands of tiny cellphone lights are swaying in time to Coldplay’s “A Sky Full of Stars” on a mild winter night at Brisbane Stadium for Australia’s World Cup match against Nigeria.

Afghanistan’s historic Ariana Cinema torn down to make way for shopping center

Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action ...
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At least 78 people die as winter temperatures plunge in Afghanistan, Taliban says

At least 78 people have died in freezing conditions in Afghanistan in the last nine days, a Taliban official said Thursday, deepening a humanitarian crisis affecting millions of people now living ...
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Afghanistan stuns Australia to secure one of the sport’s biggest upsets at T20 Cricket World Cup

It was a mismatch of considerable proportions. Australia won the T20 Cricket World Cup just three years ago, while Afghanistan has never progressed past the tournament’s second round nor defeated ...