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ISIS Claims Bus Bombing in Afghan Capital

The ISIS extremist group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a passenger bus that killed one woman in Afghanistan's capital. Dozens of people have been killed and scores wounded in deadly attacks that have punctuated the last two weeks of the fasting month of Ramadan, which ends…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brave disabled veterans set record by climbing Mount Everest and skydiving near peak

Former Lance Corporal Martyn Compton was named one of Britain's most injured soldiers after 75% of his body was burnt when the vehicle he was in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan

Daily Mirror

Pakistani Premier to Asharq Al-Awsat: Committed to Promoting Ties with Saudi Arabia

On his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that his government was committed to advancing the special relationship with the Kingdom. Sharif is the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League. He was sworn in earlier this month after parliament ousted his predecessor, Imran Khan,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque, its leader says

A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Reuters

Migrants turned away at Belarus-Poland border: 'We see families and people with disabilities'

Several humanitarian organisations have been concerned since March about new cases of violence and migrants being pushed back at the border between Poland and Belarus. Last year, thousands of people from Afghanistan, the Middle East and central Africa tried to reach the European Union by illegally entering Poland. Warsaw accused…

France 24

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: The ongoing fight to educate Afghan girls

In 2016, Shabana Basij-Rasikh created Afghanistan's School of Leadership for girls. When the Taliban took control in 2021, she helped her students flee and continued their education abroad.

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Taliban supreme leader urges world to recognise ‘Islamic Emirate’

Haibatullah Akhunzada calls on the international community to recognise the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

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IS claims bombing targeting Shiites in north Afghanistan

The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for two bombings in the country’s north that targeted the country’s minority Hazara ethnic group

The Independent UK

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack that killed nine in Afghanistan

Islamic state claimed responsibility for an attack against Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan that killed nine people on Thursday, according to the group's telegram channel.

Reuters

Explosions in northern Afghanistan kill at least 9, wound 13

A spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief says two explosions within minutes of each other killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in a key northern city

The Independent UK

Blasts on vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in northern Afghanistan kill nine

Bombs exploded aboard two passenger vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, killing at least nine people, an official said.

Reuters

Ben Roberts-Smith witness won fancy dress competition wearing white supremacist outfit, court told

A former elite soldier tells a Sydney court he wore a Ku Klux Klan costume to a fancy dress party at an unofficial soldier bar in Afghanistan "just for a laugh".

ABC News

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation witness backs war veteran’s version of events in Afghanistan mission

Former SAS soldier anonymised as Person 35 tells federal court there was no one inside the tunnel at Whiskey 108

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton's right: the time to reinstate national service is now

In Afghanistan, individual Australian troops were deployed up to five times. Is it not enough to send a man into a war zone just once?

Newcastle Herald

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Brit, 22, who heads to war zones across world trapped in Pakistan after money runs out

Miles Routledge had planned to "rescue" a tour guide who helped him on his first visit, but his plans have been scuppered after he ran out of money in Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border

Al Jazeera

Deadly border attacks test Pakistani gov’t relations with Taliban

Alleged Pakistani raids in Afghanistan in response to killing of its soldiers have raised tensions between two nations.

France 24

Video: Afghan businesses struggle to survive since Taliban takeover

Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, nearly 2,000 factories across Afghanistan have shut down as factory owners struggle under the combined pressure of a collapsed banking system, decrease in purchasing power, and a drop in international investments. The dire economic situation is hitting business owners and their employees hard.

The Independent UK

Biden administration adds nine respiratory cancers to list of illnesses linked to burn pits

Veterans suffering from the nine conditions who served in the Gulf War, the Iraq War or the War in Afghanistan will now be given access to VA healthcare and disability claims

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran-Pakistan Ties on Brink after Khan's Ouster

Iran is concerned that the progress it has made in bilateral relations with Pakistan may evaporate with the ouster of prime minister Imran Khan. Iranian experts expect new Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif to pay a visit to Iran soon as part of a revision of his predecessor's foreign policy. Pakistan…

The Guardian - AU

Aid organisations must speak out when sleeping children are killed in air strikes

The silence from NGOs in Afghanistan makes me question if humanitarianism has become just a market-driven industry

The Times of India

Day after heroin seizure, questions unanswered

AMRITSAR: The seizure of 102kg heroin, valued at Rs 700 crore in the international market, at Attari has left the security agencies grappling with unanswered questions like who is involved in heroin smuggling from Afghanistan, whether it is a handiwork of some insider in cahoots with importers or the clearing…

The Guardian - UK

Security chief denies consulting No 10 over Afghanistan charity evacuation

Sir Stephen Lovegrove tells MPs he cannot recall with whom he checked that Nowzad staff were eligible for help

The Independent UK

US commission: Cite Afghanistan for religious persecution

A U.S. advisory body says that Afghanistan should join a list of the world's worst violators of religious freedom

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey and the Lesser of Two Evils in Syria

If Turkey were given the choice between normalizing relations with the Syrian regime or accepting the establishment of Kurdish state in northern Syrian and on its southern border, then it will opt for the first option as "the lesser of two evils." This was the gist of Turkish Foreign Minister…

Reuters

U.S. asset freezes worsen Afghan women's suffering - U.N. experts

The United States, as well as the Taliban authorities, is contributing to the suffering of women in Afghanistan through asset freezes, U.N. independent experts said on Monday.

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