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Taliban release two Americans detained in Afghanistan - State Department

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Tuesday released two American nationals in what appeared to be a goodwill gesture, said State Department spokesperson Ned Price, who indicated that the militants were holding other U.S. citizens.

Reuters

Taliban reportedly releases two Americans from Afghanistan including filmmaker Ivor Shearer

Filmmaker was arrested in August while filming in Kabul

The Independent UK

Taliban says women banned from universities in Afghanistan

The US and Britain criticised the ban, which the Taliban says preserves “national interest” and women’s “honour”

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Women banned from universities in Afghanistan until further notice, Taliban confirms

Women have been banned from universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Taliban officially criminalises university-level education for women in Afghanistan

The latest education suspension further restricts women's access to a formal education, having already excluded all females from secondary schooling - weeks after a ban from public parks and funfairs

Daily Mirror

Taliban say women banned from universities in Afghanistan

The Taliban have banned women from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, the latest edict cracking down on their rights and freedoms

The Independent UK

U.S., Britain condemn Taliban suspension of women from universities

The United States and Britain on Tuesday condemned an announcement by Afghanistan's Taliban administration that it was suspending access to universities for female students.

Reuters

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Taliban-Led Afghan Administration Suspends Female Students from Universities

Afghanistan's Taliban-run Afghan higher education ministry said on Tuesday that female students would not be allowed access to the country's universities until further notice. A letter, confirmed by a spokesperson for the higher education ministry, instructed Afghan public and private universities to suspend access to female students immediately, in accordance…

Asharq Al-Awsat

"Today is a dark day": Taliban bans women from universities in Afghanistan

The rule change is expected to take effect immediately

Manchester Evening News

Taliban-led Afghan administration suspends women from universities

Afghanistan's Taliban-run higher education ministry on Tuesday suspended access to universities by female students until further notice, drawing strong condemnation from the United States, Britain and the United Nations.

Reuters

Afghan hope sewn into nation's war memory

Heartfelt messages sewn by local women onto handkerchiefs during the Afghanistan war will become part of the Australian War Memorial's national collection.

AAP

Team GB hero Jaco van Gass survived Taliban bomb blast before clinching double gold

The Team GB Paralympian has scaled Everest, reached the North Pole and been awarded an MBE since a tragic accident in Afghanistan while serving with the Parachute Regiment

Daily Mirror

Horror as 87 killed including kids as oil tanker explodes in Afghanistan tunnel

An oil tanker exploded inside the Salang tunnel, north of Kabul, in Afghanistan, that has led to at least 87 reportedly killed and many more injured in the tragedy

Daily Mirror

Death toll from Afghanistan tunnel fire rises to 31

The death toll from a fire in Afghanistan's landmark alpine Salang tunnel rose to 31, a health ministry spokesman said on Monday.

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Al Jazeera

Hostages taken at Pakistan counterterrorism centre seized by TTP

Standoff continues after Pakistani Taliban men overpower guards, snatch weapons and take hostages at facility in Bannu.

The Independent UK

Pakistani Taliban overpower guards, seize police center

Several Pakistani Taliban detainees have managed to overpower their guards at a counter-terrorism center in northwestern Pakistan, snatching police weapons and taking control of the facility

Al Jazeera

At least 12 killed in accident in Afghanistan’s Salang Tunnel

The government said 37 people were injured after a fuel tanker caught fire, and the death toll was expected to rise.

Reuters

Accident in Afghanistan's Salang Tunnel kills at least 12

An accident in the landmark Salang alpine tunnel that connects Afghanistan's capital to its north killed at least 12 people and injured dozens, authorities said on Sunday.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Fuel Tanker Tunnel Blast Kills at Least 19 in Afghanistan

At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital Kabul, a local official said Sunday. The Salang Tunnel, which is around 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion.…

Al Jazeera

UN postpones decision on ambassadors from Myanmar, Taliban, Libya

UN recognising ambassadors from Myanmar’s military, the Taliban, and Libya’s east would be seen a conferring legitimacy.

Reuters

U.N. shelves bid by Afghan Taliban, Myanmar junta for representation

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved postponing - for the second time - a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ambassador to New York.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat over border shelling

Border tensions between the South Asian neighbours have risen since the Taliban returned to power last year.

The Guardian - AU

Australia urged to offer asylum to Afghan women in ‘grave danger’ from Taliban

Women facing deportation as Pakistan moves to expel refugees will be targeted by Taliban, crossbencher Rebekha Sharkie says

Salon

The truth about CIA-backed night raids

Reporter orphaned as toddler in Afghanistan returns home to examine hundreds of CIA-backed killings

Al Jazeera

UK launches probe into claims its troops killed Afghan civilians

The independent probe will look into allegations that British special forces killed dozens of Afghan civilians.

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