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The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Australia’s most decorated soldier loses appeal against war crimes defamation ruling

Ben Roberts-Smith is accused of unlawfully killing four civilians while serving in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Ben Roberts-Smith loses appeal against defamation ruling he committed war crimes in Afghanistan

Ruling upholds decision of justice Anthony Besanko in 2023 who found SAS veteran had, on balance of probabilities, murdered unarmed civilians

The Guardian - AU

General accused of failing to report SAS war crimes evidence is made navy chief

Royal Navy leader also accused of overseeing denial of resettlement claims made by Afghans who aided UK forces

The Guardian - UK

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Kristi Noem Slammed For Saying Afghans Can Safely Return To Their Country: 'Divorced From Reality'

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is being criticized for saying Afghan refugees can safely go back to their country after stripping legal protection for thousands of nationals in the U.S.

Latin Times

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.

Reason

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

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UK veterans allege war crimes by British forces in Afghanistan, Iraq

Detainees were regularly executed and unarmed people killed in their sleep during night raids, according to ex-soldiers.

Al Jazeera

UK special forces veterans accuse colleagues of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan

Former personnel describe soldiers exhibiting ‘psychopathic traits’ and executions of handcuffed prisoners

The Guardian - 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

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

Kashmir crisis: what is Lashkar-e-Taiba and is it supported by Pakistan?

India claims to have attacked camps associated with a militant group in Pakistan – but what is its relationship with Islamabad?

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent UK

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Tens of thousands of Afghans return from Pakistan after deadline

More than 80,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan between 1 and 18 April, following the expiry of a voluntary return deadline, Pakistani officials have said.

The Independent UK

Pakistani troops kill 54 militants attempting to sneak into Pakistan from Afghanistan

Pakistan’s military says its security forces overnight have killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from neighboring Afghanistan

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.

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

Monday briefing: How Trump’s cuts to USAID are already harming the world’s worst off

In today’s newsletter: The US aid agency has been a lifeline for developing nations since the 1960s – its destruction is already having huge consequences around the world

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

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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