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From the safety of Australia, I watch in despair as my loved ones in Kabul navigate this digital darkness – a calculated effort to silence dissent The internet was my lifeline, a slender thread connecting me from Australia to my family in Afghanistan, …
Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic network in nationwide shutdown of communications to prevent ‘vice’Afghans are living under a near-complete communications blackout after Taliban authorities cut internet and mobile phone services for a second day as …
Telecoms disrupted nationwide after authorities cut fibre-optic connections in several provinces to prevent ‘vice’A huge communications blackout has hit Afghanistan after Taliban authorities began severing fibre-optic connections in several provinces t…
Secretary of state Marco Rubio welcomes release as ‘important step forward’ as Taliban seek to normalise relations with USThe Taliban on Sunday freed a US citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with US envoys…
Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 provincesLast week, 17-year-old Marjaneh* sat at her computer, waiting for her nightly online English lessons to begin. At 7pm, the scheduled star…
‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option
Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic educationWhen the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Nahid, 24, was midway through an economics degree. She had hoped to work in a …
Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, said it was never explained to them why they were imprisonedA British couple who were reunited with their family in the UK after being released from almost eight months in detention in Afghanistan have said t…
Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, were released after being held without charge for nearly eight monthsA British couple who were detained without charge for nearly eight months by the Taliban in Afghanistan have arrived in the UK.Barbie Reyno…
Barbie and Peter Reynolds have been freed after being detained without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since February, where for a long period they were separated and held in a maximum-security prison. The couple had lived in Afghanistan for nearl…
Peter and Barbie Reynolds were arrested and held without charge for eight months, raising fears for their healthA British couple have been freed from months of detention in Afghanistan to the “immense joy” of their family. The Taliban released Barbie R…
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what drives them onMohamad El Dirany, 24 Continue reading…
Twelve soldiers also killed during raids on two TTP hideouts on border with AfghanistanFierce clashes broke out in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan when Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, killing 12 soldier…
Twelve soldiers also killed during raids on two TTP hideouts on border with AfghanistanFierce clashes broke out in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan when Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, killing 12 soldier…
Twelve soldiers also killed during raids on two TTP hideouts on border with AfghanistanFierce clashes broke out in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan when Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, killing 12 soldier…
Twelve soldiers also killed during raids on two TTP hideouts on border with AfghanistanFierce clashes broke out in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan when Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, killing 12 soldier…