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Taliban Imposes New Ban On Women's Prayers In Afghanistan

Taliban's extreme restrictions on Afghan women under sharia law raise concerns of gender persecution and potential crimes against humanity.

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'I Didn't Think I'd Walk Again... Now I Can't Think Of My Life Without Golf'

Double amputee Kushal Limbu recounts the day in Afghanistan that changed his life and tells how golf has been an integral part of his rehabilitation...

Golf Monthly

Afghanistan Morality Ministry Spreads 'Living Things' Images Ban

Afghanistan's morality ministry is gradually introducing a ban on images of living beings in media, with multiple provinces announcing restrictions and some Taliban officials refusing to be photographed or filmed, journalists across the country told AFP. Since mid-October the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice…

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Questions about GOP candidate’s medical discharge fuel talk about bullet wound scandal

Conversations about Sheehy’s military record have overtaken Montana as the state hosts a key Senate showdown

The Independent UK

Wreath-laying marks 10 years since end of UK combat operations in Afghanistan

Minister for veterans and people Alistair Carns, who is a veteran of the conflict himself, attended the ceremony and laid a wreath.

Evening Standard

Militant attack kills 10 security personnel in northwest Pakistan

Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack

The Independent UK

Afghan journalists fear country going dark as Taliban bans images of ‘living things’

Extreme restrictions on media workers mean life in Afghanistan – including human rights abuses – will go undocumented, journalists say

The Independent UK

An Afghan province bans all media from showing images of living things to comply with Taliban laws

Taliban officials in Afghanistan's south have banned all media from showing images of living things to comply with the Taliban's morality laws

The Independent UK

Presidential election could help decide fate of the 70,000 Afghans living temporarily in the US

The Taliban, an ultraconservative Islamic political group, retook control of Kabul a little more than three years ago, dashing many Afghans’ hopes for a tolerant, democratic government.

The Conversation

Polio is rising in Pakistan ahead of a new vaccination campaign

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a surge in new polio cases ahead of a new nationwide campaign, hampering years-long efforts aimed at making the country a polio-free state

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‘You are next’: online posts show Islamic State interest in attacks on US ahead of election

Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group’s planning

International Business Times

Questions Raised About GOP Senate Candidate's 'War Wounds': Report

Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, said he was wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan, but at least two people dispute the account

The Guardian - US

Montana park ranger says Senate candidate Tim Sheehy lied about combat wound

Sheehy has claimed he was wounded in Afghanistan, but ranger says he investigated accidental shooting in 2015

Salon

Europe's looming overdose crisis

Though nothing is guaranteed, an overdose crisis could be looming in Europe thanks to changes in the drug supply

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Salon

Sheehy's gunshot story full of holes

Sheehy, a favorite to flip a crucial Senate seat for the GOP, never mentioned the supposed shooting to a colleague

The Independent UK

A GOP senate candidate says he was shot while serving in Afghanistan. A Montana ranger says that’s not what happened

A former Park Service ranger says U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan

The Conversation

What the history of blasphemy laws in the US and the fight for religious freedom can teach us today

Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, violation of these measures can result in a death penalty.

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers to become eligible to live in UK after new information found

Estimated 500 rejected cases expected to be overturned after fresh evidence they were employed by the UK government in Afghanistan

International Business Times

Afghan Taliban Vow To Implement Media Ban On Images Of Living Things

Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.

The Guardian - AU

‘If you want us to die, we need to know’: hundreds of thousands of Afghans are waiting for visas to Australia – and time is running out

Some managed to evacuate. Many left behind, including the family of Afghan Australians, live in fear of ‘beatings’ or of simply ‘disappearing’

Radio France Internationale

A decade of photos captures the enduring resilience of ordinary Afghans

French photographer Sandra Calligaro has spent much of her career documenting the lives of ordinary people in Afghanistan, especially women and children. Her exhibition at the annual Bayeux Calvados-Normandy war correspondents' festival is both a tribute to Afghan resilience and a declaration of love for a country torn apart by…

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