Afghanistan
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‘Now they only deport’: Afghans trapped in Pakistan arrested and sent back after ‘open war’ breaks out
Journalists and activists who fled Taliban rule are living in fear as Pakistani police hunt and deport refugee…
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Afghanistan says it thwarted Pakistan airstrikes on Bagram airbase
Sporadic clashes reported in several provinces in Afghanistan as both sides give conflicting death tollsAfghan…
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US backs Pakistan’s ‘right to defend itself’ against Taliban after strikes on Afghanistan
Taliban offer to resolve dispute via dialogue after Pakistan bombed cities in Afghanistan in latest escalation…
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Pakistan bombs Kabul in latest escalation with Afghanistan – video
Pakistani security sources released a video showing what they say are airstrikes on Afghanistan’s capital of K…
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Pakistan’s patience runs out after badly miscalculating over Taliban
Military reckoned ‘good’ Afghan insurgents were separate from ‘bad’ Pakistani insurgents but distinction has b…
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Pakistan declares state of ‘open war’ after bombing major Afghan cities
Wave of strikes comes after Taliban forces attack Pakistani border troops following earlier action from Islama…
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Pakistan declares ‘open war’ against Afghanistan after cross-border attack – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read our full report hereBoth sides are reporting they have inflicted heavy c…
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Pakistan bombs Kabul after intensifying border clashes with Afghanistan
Escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours makes a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly sh…
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The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture
The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We c…
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Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disea…
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Pakistan strikes militant hideouts on Afghan border after surge in attacks
‘Intelligence-based, selective operations’ carried out against Pakistani Taliban camps, says information minis…
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Many Afghan Australians felt grateful to the Liberal party. That faith is shaken | Shadi Khan Saif
Australia’s strength has never come from purity tests or cultural fear. It has come from beautiful human overl…
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The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell
Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoy…
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Progress on family planning in Afghanistan is still possible | Letter
George Papachristou and Gigih Yudhistira offer some hope in response to a report on how the Taliban’s ban on b…
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Norway defence chief says Russia could invade to protect nuclear assets
Exclusive: Norway’s chief of defence Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, was critical of Trump’s c…