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Hegseth orders new review of Afghanistan withdrawal and suicide bombing at Kabul airport

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered another review of the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed American troops and Afghans

The Independent UK

Car bomb in Pakistan’s restive southwest kills four people

The attack is just the latest in Balochistan, which is plagued by insurgency.

Al Jazeera

Trump once condemned Qatar. How things have changed

The country’s charm offensive and global mediator role – as well as a $400m plane – reveal a complicated relationship

The Guardian - US

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Takeaways from AP's report on Afghan refugees in Virginia

Religious groups have long been at the heart of U.S. refugee resettlement work that is now in peril

The Independent UK

Trump policy moves worry Afghan refugees in US military town and Christian groups that assist them

The Trump administration’s suspension of the federal refugee program has upended the lives of many Afghans who worked with the United States during wartime

The Independent UK

The Taliban and Burkina Faso ambassadors pledge new trade and mining cooperation

Taliban-controlled media say the group's acting ambassador to Iran has met with his Burkina Faso counterpart in the Iranian capital of Tehran

The Independent UK

Pakistan Deports Afghans Awaiting U.S. Resettlement

Afghans who fled Taliban rule with hopes of U.S. resettlement now face detention, extortion, and forced return.

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Kristi Noem says Afghans can return safely under Taliban rule. Experts say that’s ‘patently obscene’

The administration is ending temporary legal status for thousands of Afghans, which advocates fear is a ‘death sentence’

The Independent UK

Taliban add chess to list of things banned in Afghanistan

Taliban say chess in Sharia or Islamic law is considered ‘a means of gambling’

The Independent UK

Sue Gray calls on Starmer to support Afghan women and girls in first remarks since sacking

Sue Gray was sacked in October after losing a bitter power struggle with Keir Starmer’s elections chief Morgan McSweeney

The Independent UK

From patron to prey: The rise and fragmentation of Pak’s terror landscape

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s remarks during a live news interview, that his country has been doing “dirty work” for the West for the last three decades, was a stunning admission on Islamabad’s long history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations. A decade ago, former army chief and president…

Newslaundry

Did Mike Waltz Just Go Down John Bolton's Path?

Trump has hired a notorious hawk as his national security adviser—and fired that adviser after getting in the way of delicate diplomatic talks—in each of his two terms.

Reason

Despite War's End, Afghanistan Remains Deep In Crisis: UN Relief Chief

Climate change, women's rights, displacement, poverty: Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher told AFP on Wednesday, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.

International Business Times

‘I worked for the British in Kabul embassy for 18 years. Let me reunite with my sons’

Family brought to the UK on Afghan resettlement scheme plead to be reunited with their two eldest sons

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Tunics & Turbans: Afghan Students Don Taliban-imposed Uniforms

Since the start of the school year in March, Afghan boys have been required to wear new uniforms of turbans and long tunics, following an order to adopt outfits reflecting Taliban rule.

Euronews

Pakistani military says it killed 54 militants attempting to cross border from Afghanistan

The insurgents were spotted and killed near the former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near North Waziristan, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the Afghan border.

Reason

Washington's Broken Promises Leave Afghan Allies in Limbo

But volunteers are stepping up even as Congress fails to act.

International Business Times UK

'The Arabs Love to Flirt with Men': Briton Claims He Had a Fling with a Taliban Fighter While in Afghanistan

A British man alleges he had a flirtatious encounter with a Taliban fighter during his time in Afghanistan.

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Al Jazeera

After a year of hostility, Pakistan and Afghanistan seek diplomatic reboot

Ishaq Dar visits Kabul as Pakistan and Afghanistan attempt to revive stalled diplomatic ties amid refugee expulsion.

International Business Times

Fleeing Pakistan, Afghans Rebuild From Nothing

Pushed out of Pakistan where she was born, Nazmine Khan's first experience of her country, Afghanistan, was in a sweltering tent at a border camp.

International Business Times

Taliban Change Tune Towards Afghan Heritage Sites

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan.

The Guardian - UK

A ‘strange dance’: media mogul Saad Mohseni on making TV under the Taliban

Once dubbed the ‘Afghan Rupert Murdoch’, Saad Mohseni’s media business was founded after the fall of the Taliban and is now navigating their return

The Guardian - UK

Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism

An Afghan exile’s account of life in war-torn Kabul and a Taliban-dominated refugee camp is an unflinching study of how radicalisation takes root, and his own renunciation of it

Advnture

“Imagine being told you can’t run, just because of who you are”: how Free to Run is using outdoor sports to empower girls and women

We meet up with a charity that uses running, hiking and camping to empower girls and women in places afflicted by conflict and gender discrimination

The Independent UK

Meet the last female Afghan ambassador as she leads the resistance against the Taliban

INTERVIEW: Arpan Rai sits down with Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s only remaining female ambassador, to talk about the Taliban’s new regime and what it means to resist

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