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Beijing backs government ‘anti-terror’ efforts as Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned Wednesday’s powerful car bomb explosion at a hotel where the Chinese ambassador is understood to…
Read MoreRise in cases feared as murders halt campaigns and leave many women too afraid to workGul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots.The 22-year-o…
Read MoreAs troops prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country, readers reflect on western nations’ involvement and legacyYour editorial (15 April) asserts that the Taliban were quick to take over when the Russians left. That is simply not true; it actually t…
Read MoreJoe Biden has called time on America’s longest war. The decision exposes the limits of US power and leaves an uncertain futureBritain’s former prime minister Harold Macmillan is said to have told colleagues that the first law of politics should be “nev…
Read MoreUS intelligence evaluates claims of Afghanistan bountiesPress reports sparked outrage and calls to confront KremlinUS intelligence agencies have only “low to moderate confidence” in reports last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants i…
Read MoreWithdrawal of US and Nato military personnel to begin on 1 May‘It’s time to end America’s longest war’ – Biden at White HouseUS president Joe Biden has declared it was time “to end America’s longest war” as he announced that nearly 10,000 US and Nato t…
Read MoreAfter 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline IslamistsOutside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americ…
Read MoreMurders of two volunteers and a nurse come one day after relaunch of national vaccination campaignTwo female volunteers and a nurse working door to door to vaccinate children against polio were shot dead by gunmen in two separate incidents in the Afgha…
Read MoreSurprise visit and meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in KabulTrip comes ahead of 1 May deadline to bring US troops homeLloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, meeting President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul….
Read MoreGovernment appears to backtrack on decree after women take to social media to sing in defiance under #IAmMySong hashtagAfghanistan’s Ministry of Education appears to be backtracking on a decision to impose a nationwide singing ban on schoolgirls.In a l…
Read MoreAs the deadline for US withdrawal looms, the Taliban are seizing their chance and the death toll rises dailyGhazaal Habibyar’s trembling hand hovered over her mobile phone, unable to type the numbers. “I was afraid to hear bad news,” she recalls of tha…
Read MoreMovie about an affair between a woman and an older man aims to challenge stereotype of Afghan women as weak and repressedThere are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. …
Read MoreBorn under Taliban rule, Sara Barackzay studied abroad and now hopes to start her own schoolA woman in traditional dress breaks open the bars of a prison. A young child dances, oblivious to a backdrop of tanks and explosions. The drawings by Afghanista…
Read MoreThe president has inherited an unpopular war, and whatever he decides to do about it will be fraught with danger Of all the foreign hazards, snares, pitfalls and timebombs left behind by Donald Trump, Afghanistan is arguably the worst. Joe Biden must d…
Read MoreVillages in southern Afghanistan have become frontline of conflict as peace talks stall and uncertainty surrounds US withdrawalThe people who lived in Spairwan village spent two days huddled in their homes, besieged by fighting, before the Taliban came…
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