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Pakistan reopens key Afghan border point shut after clashes

Pakistani authorities have reopened a key border crossing with neighboring Afghanistan that was briefly shut during clashes between the two sides

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Factbox-Recent attacks on foreigners in Afghanistan

The Taliban took back control of Afghanistan last year as U.S. and foreign troops withdrew after 20 years of conflict following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Reuters

Armed Men Open Fire At Hotel Housing Chinese Visitors In Afghanistan's Kabul

Armed men, on Monday, opened fire inside a hotel, which is frequently visited by Chinese and other foreigners, in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, Reuters reported citing two Taliban and residents. Read on for details:

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Taliban: Assailants attack hotel in Afghan capital Kabul

A Taliban official says a hotel catering to foreign visitors in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul was attacked and three of the assailants were killed

The Independent UK

Kabul hotel attack ends as three gunmen killed; two foreigners injured

Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals in an attack that ended when at least three gunmen were killed by security forces, the Taliban-run administration said.

Reuters

‘Unprovoked’ firing from Afghan forces kills civilians: Pakistan

The Pakistan army accuses Afghan forces of killing six civilians in ‘indiscriminate’ firing at the Chaman border.

Al Jazeera

Pakistani army: Afghan forces shell border town, killing 6

Pakistan's army says deadly shelling from Afghan forces has killed 6 people in a border town

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Mac Engel: Brittney Griner owes the United States of America because she could have been Austin Tice

FORT WORTH, Texas — Trading a person whose crime is possessing a tiny amount of hash for someone who is convicted of dealing military grade firearms, many to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, doesn’t feel fair, or right.

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Deliveries of millions in hard cash prompts concern over financial transparency in Afghanistan

This picture is said to show millions in cash arriving in Kabul. It's one of several images published by the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan in recent weeks that has some experts concerned.

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Return of Afghan floggings as Taliban takes a hardline path

In Afghanistan, public floggings and executions bring back memories of harsh Taliban rule in the 1990s.

Al Jazeera

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Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

Batool Haidari was a prominent professor of sexology at a university in Kabul before last year’s Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Griner swap reveals dilemma US faces in freeing detainees

Over the last year, to free Americans held abroad, the U.S. has swapped a Taliban drug lord, a Russian pilot imprisoned for a scheme to distribute cocaine, and a Russian arms dealer

The Independent UK

Filming as the war in Afghanistan ends

Salon talks to Matthew Heineman about his new film about the final days of the U.S. War in Afghanistan

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New initiative takes aim at mental health crisis among refugees

ATLANTA — U.S. troops’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan is something Hogai Nassery has been confronted by long after August 2021, when the last plane took off from Kabul, marking the end of the U.S.’ longest war. Starting last year, Nassery has supported Afghan evacuees who have resettled in metro Atlanta…

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Taliban carry out the first public execution since taking over Afghanistan

The announcement underscored the intentions by Afghanistan's new rulers to continue hardline policies implemented since they took over the country and to stick to their interpretation of Islamic law.

Al Jazeera

Afghan girls sit exams despite not attending schools for a year

Twelfth grade girls, who were banned from school by the Taliban, were asked to sit for graduation exams.

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‘Retrograde’ chronicles the human consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan - Roll Call

Matthew Heineman's documentary "Retrograde" shows the human consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Daily Mirror

First Taliban execution since return to power sees killer shot dead by victim's dad

Taliban security forces carried out their first execution since they took power in Afghanistan, which was witnessed by top leaders and hundreds of spectators

France 24

Afghan Taliban carry out first public execution since returning to power

An Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such a sentence since the hardline Islamists returned to power.

Reuters

Taliban publicly execute man accused of murder, senior officials attend

The Taliban administration on Wednesday put to death a man accused of murder in western Afghanistan, its spokesperson said, in the first officially confirmed public execution since the group took over the country last year.

Axios

Republicans launching investigation into handling of U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal

The operation was clouded by a suicide attack that left 13 Americans and roughly 200 Afghans dead.

Reuters

Olympics-IOC warns Afghanistan over women's access to sport

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) warned Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday that allowing women and young girls safe access to sport was a condition for the country's representation at the 2024 Paris Games.

Tribune News Service

What to stream: Heineman’s new documentary 'Retrograde' examines US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Documentarian Matthew Heineman’s sixth documentary feature, “Retrograde,” arrives on streaming services this week, hitting Disney+ on Friday and Hulu on Sunday. The film is stunning, visceral and startlingly immersive look at the United States’ chaotic and tragic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The filmmakers, who start out embedded with the…

The Independent UK

Taliban allow high school graduation exams for Afghan girls

Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week even though they have been banned from classrooms since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021

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