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How patriarchal mindset prevents women in peace efforts

Can Afghan and Syrian women ever be involved in the peace process or will it remain a pipe dream?

360info

AP Month in Pictures: Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan

FEBRUARY 2023

The Independent UK

How an Afghan girls’ school principal fled the Taliban

After fleeing Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a former head teacher from Kabul tries to make a new life in Canada.

Al Jazeera

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Prince Harry admits not all British soldiers 'necessarily' agreed with Afghanistan war

Prince Harry has opened up about his time as a soldier in Afghanistan, admitting that there were some troops who didn't 'necessarily agree or disagree' with the conflict

Daily Mirror

7 Harry Q&A bombshells - from marijuana 'really helping him' to Afghanistan war claim

The Duke of Sussex was joined by Dr Gabor Maté, an expert in trauma, to discuss the lasting effects of trauma on the Prince's life from losing his mum from a young age to finally taking steps to overcome it with wife Meghan Markle

Daily Mirror

Anger grows over Afghan journalists still stranded by Home Office inaction

Press members living under the Taliban, and living uncertain lives in Pakistan, must be given clarity say campaign groups

The Guardian - UK

Almost 1,000 Afghans who helped UK armed forces still to be relocated, investigation finds

The scheme was launched in April 2021 in order to help those who helped the armed forces flee the country

Evening Standard

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The army veteran who became a 'lieutenant' for a drugs gang is caught in £3million cocaine and heroin bust... but ordered to pay back just £11

Roy Evans saw action in several tours including in Afghanistan and is now serving a 20 year prison sentence

Manchester Evening News

Number of imprisoned veterans concerns former defense chiefs

Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government consider new ways to ensure that military service is taken into account when courts prosecute former service members

The Independent UK

Wife of man locked up by Taliban fears for his life as he languishes in jail

Mortaza Behboudi has been held in Afghanistan since January 7, two days after he arrived in his native Afghanistan on a reporting trip and his wife shares to The Mirror concerns on his welfare

Daily Mirror

Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves ‘four dead’ and thousands in cells

Asylum seekers in Karachi tell of terror of being sent back to the Taliban and despair at being shackled and held in Pakistani jails

The Guardian - UK

Spike in Afghan-produced methamphetamine being imported by bikie gangs into NSW

The Australian Federal Police say there has been an increase in shipments of the drug known as ice from Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in 2021.

ABC News

Relatives of shipwreck victims travel to Italy to pay their respects

Coffins of those who died laid out in sports hall in Crotone, Calabria, as body of another child is found

The Guardian - UK

Swiss-based trust holds second meeting to discuss plans for Afghan funds -trustee

The board of the Swiss-based trust fund managing some $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets met for a second time last month, one of its trustees said, and discussed options for disbursing funds in line with achieving monetary stability.

Reuters

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Daily Record

Courteney Cox responds to Prince Harry's memoir claims he took magic mushrooms at her house

Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago.

Reuters

80 Afghan citizens dead in Italian shipwreck - Taliban foreign ministry

Afghanistan's Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday's shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy.

The Guardian - AU

ADF taking too long to enact reforms after Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, watchdog warns

Exclusive: Report reveals oversight panel appealed to chief of ADF and chief of army to act with ‘a sense of urgency’

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Florida can’t run without immigrant labor, so good luck with your crackdown, Gov. DeSantis

A few years ago, my neighbors and I hired a young American war veteran, back from Afghanistan and starting his own business, to install a new wooden fence.

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The Independent UK

Taliban: 2 senior IS members killed in Afghanistan

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul

Al Jazeera

Will China’s latest investment in Afghanistan actually work?

While a deal to extract oil has raised hopes in the war-torn nation, experts warn of China’s sketchy record.

WEKU

As Republicans start investigating Biden, the White House war room is ready to fight

House Republicans are investigating everything from the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan to the business dealings of the president's son. Here's how the White House is gearing up.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban Forces Kill 2 ISIS Members in Kabul Raid

Taliban security forces killed two militants from the ISIS group and detained a third in an overnight raid in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the spokesman for the Taliban government said Monday. The regional affiliate of the ISIS group — known as the ISIS in Khorasan Province — is a…

Reuters

Islamist militants have Pakistan's police in their crosshairs

Atop a police outpost in northwest Pakistan, Faizanullah Khan stands behind a stack of sandbags and peers through the sight of an anti-aircraft gun, scanning the terrain along the unofficial boundary with the country's restive former tribal areas.

Al Jazeera

‘Books they love’: A Kabul graveyard library for two schoolgirls

In Taliban’s Afghanistan, Hazara cousins, both blast victims who loved to read, inspire a library – and new readers.

Daily Mirror

At least 60 migrants including newborn dead after boat falls apart off coast of Italy

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Around 30 bodies were seen floating in the rough seas off the southern coast of Italy this morning, with rescue officials saying they expect the death toll to rise through the day. The victims, who were from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, included a number of children, officials…

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