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Undercover journalist in Afghanistan finds Taliban are abducting, imprisoning women

Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover.

WEKU

Taliban claims it did not know Al-Qaeda boss was in Afghanistan as it warns US to ‘never repeat’ drone strike

Ayman al-Zawahri, the head of Al-Qaeda, was killed in a drone strike on Sunday

Evening Standard

Taliban say they are investigating US 'claim' of killing al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

The Taliban says it was unaware Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in Afghanistan's capital city.

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Taliban claim 'no knowledge' of slain Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan

The Taliban said Thursday they are investigating what they described as “claims” that al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan capital.

France 24

Taliban claim they unaware of al-Qaida leader in Afghanistan

The Taliban say they are investigating what they they described as “claims” that al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan capital

The Independent UK

The Northern Agenda: A VERY wide load on the M53

Huge furnace structure five times higher than a double decker bus comes over from Thailand

Manchester Evening News

Taliban Claim They Unaware of Qaeda Leader in Afghanistan

The Taliban broke its silence Thursday, days after a US drone strike killing al-Qaeda’s top leader in Afghanistan’s capital, acknowledging his slaying and pledging to launch an investigation. The killing of Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safehouse Sunday has further strained relations between the Taliban and the…

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Bobby Ghosh: Al-Zawahri killing gives Afghanistan an opening with US

The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul on Sunday caught the Taliban leadership both red-handed and flat-footed. Their promises to prevent the country from once again becoming a terrorist haven have been exposed as lies: The al-Qaida leader was living in the Afghan capital, reportedly in a…

Tribune News Service

'Our lives are paused': Afghan siblings sent to Manchester hotel forced to live 230 miles apart from family

Two are in Manchester, three in West Sussex and one in Leeds - ministers want councils to find housing

Manchester Evening News

‘We’re all responsible for Afghanistan’: confronting exhibition spotlights Australia’s 20-year war

An artist’s blood and the Brereton report feature in a month-long Sydney show and symposium that aims to platform victims of a war whose legacy lives on

The Guardian - AU

Our lives are paused, says Afghan evacuee after 11 months in UK hotel

Marwa Koofi, 21, said she feels like the last year spent in a hotel in Selby, North Yorkshire has been ‘wasted’.

The Independent UK

Harbhajan Singh raises attack on Sikhs in Afghanistan in Rajya Sabha

“There is sharp decline in Sikh population,” says the MP

The Hindu

Biden's national security adviser doubles down on Taiwan policy after Pelosi visit

Jake Sullivan, the president's national security adviser, discusses the war in Ukraine, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and the U.S. drone strike that took out al-Qaida's leader.

WEKU

Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an upscale Kabul neighbourhood. Now other terror leaders are fleeing

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed via a drone strike on the balcony of his four-storey safehouse. Now terrorist leaders are fleeing Kabul while the world takes stock of what this means for the future of Afghanistan.

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The Hindu

Teaching the Taliban the wrong lessons

The world appears to have highlighted that short-sighted tactics, and not strategic vision, will decide the future

The Guardian - UK

‘Tricky situation’: Taliban unsure how to respond to Zawahiri’s death

Senior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranks

WEKU

Does the killing of al-Zawahiri make Americans safer? It's complicated

The State Department warns of potential anti-American violence following the U.S. killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Experts say his loss hurts the group, but doesn't erase the threat.

The Hindu

India evacuates 30 Afghan Sikhs from Kabul

The evacuees were taken to Gurdwara Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji in New Delhi

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The Conversation

Afghanistan: assassination of al-Qaida chief reveals tensions at the top of the Taliban

The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were aware of, and gave their blessing to, al-Zawahiri staying in one of the residential areas in Kabul. But did someone in their…

Daily Mirror

'Ninja' Hellfire missiles 'like a bladed anvil' chopped up doomed Al-Qaeda leader

The US Hellfire missiles, which use blades instead of explosive warheads, used in the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri were tested and perfected in counter-terrorism operations in Syria

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ties Between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban... Will ISIS benefit from the Rupture?

After having killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone that hit the home he had been hiding in Kabul, the United States has, to a large extent, finished avenging the 9/11 attacks. The perpetrators were killed in bloody attacks, and Osama bin Laden was then killed by Navy…

Daily Mirror

Four most wanted Al-Qaeda terrorists US is hunting after leader slain with killer drone

Senior US officials say the house where Ayman al-Zawahiri died was used or owned by Mr Haqqani and his network who are closely associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban

Reuters

Tight-lipped Taliban leaders gather after U.S. says Zawahiri killed

Leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban were holding discussions on Wednesday about how to respond to a U.S. drone strike in Kabul that the United States said killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, three sources in the group said.

France 24

Women in Afghanistan gradually disappearing from public life

Women in Afghanistan are slowly disappearing from public life, a year after the Taliban retook control of the country and imposed a rigorous version of Islamic Sharia law. FRANCE 24’s Shahzaib Wahlah and Sonia Ghezali report from Kabul.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Evil man gone: The just killing of Ayman al-Zawahri

We have waited 7,629 days since 9/11, almost 21 years, to announce the death of Ayman al-Zawahri, an eye surgeon who was the No. 2 man and power behind the throne of Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaida. Truly a Dr. Evil, this now satisfyingly dead Egyptian violated his medical oath as…

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