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Taliban allow high school graduation exams for Afghan girls

Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week even though they have been banned from classrooms since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021

The Independent UK

Afghans died because of Raab’s delay in reviewing documents, officials told

Exclusive: Officials told of delays caused by Dominic Raab’s refusal to review Kabul evacuation documents in formats he did not like

The Guardian - UK

Afghan nationals in Australia fear for loved ones in grim wait for split-family visas

Wives, children and vulnerable parents have been left at mercy of Taliban as promises of swift family reunions fade

The Guardian - AU

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ISIS Suspect Arrested in Pakistan Embassy Attack in Kabul

A member of the militant ISIS group has been arrested in last week’s shooting attack targeting the Pakistani Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, the spokesman of the Taliban government said. The attack, in which shots were fired at the embassy from a nearby building, triggered anger in Pakistan, and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afghan Taliban blame foreign Islamic State fighter for Pakistan embassy attack

Afghanistan's Taliban said on Monday an Islamic State militant attack on Pakistan's embassy in Kabul was carried out with involvement of unidentified foreign groups with the intention of sowing distrust with Pakistan.

Reuters

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack on Pakistani Embassy in Kabul

ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on Pakistan's embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, via a statement carried by one of the extremist group's affiliated channels on Telegram on Sunday. The embassy came under attack on Friday and a Pakistani security guard was wounded by gunfire in what…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Pakistani embassy in Kabul

Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on Pakistan's embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, a statement carried by one of the militant group's affiliated channels on Telegram said on Sunday.

Reuters

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Former Afghan PM narrowly escapes assassination attempt as two suicide bombers killed

Two suicide bombers "dressed in burqas" were shot dead before they could reach the Kabul offices of a notorious former warlord and Mujahedeen leader.

Daily Mirror

Gun attack targets Pakistan's top diplomat in Kabul

Pakistan’s prime minister says an “assassination attempt” has targeted his country’s top diplomat in Afghanistan, amid tensions between the neighboring countries

The Independent UK

‘Assassination attempt’ on Pakistan envoy in Afghan capital

Attacker failed to harm the Pakistani diplomat, but shot and wounded his security guard outside its mission in Kabul.

Al Jazeera

Afghan activist Zarifa Ghafari: ‘They sold Afghanistan to the Taliban’

The exiled politician on the ‘game’ America plays in her homeland, the ‘Taliban twilight for women’ — and the day militants tried to blow up her car

Financial Times

Afghan capital hit by attacks near ex-PM Hekmatyar's office, Pakistan Embassy

One person was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack near the Kabul office of the Hezb-e-Islami party, former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said, the same day as an apparent failed assassination attempt at the Pakistan Embassy.

Reuters

‘It has been a sad lesson’: Afghans left behind despite British promise of help

Given the danger many have faced since the fall of Kabul, the paltry number of refugees brought to the UK as part of the government’s flagship resettlement scheme is astonishing, writes Kim Sengupta

The Independent UK

An Afghan soldier fleeing the Taliban spent months reaching the U.S. to request asylum. He was arrested at the Texas border.

Abdul Wasi Safi was trying to reach his brother, who immigrated legally to Houston after helping the U.S. military. Legal experts say Wasi may have to serve a criminal sentence before he can pursue asylum.

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Pakistan FM travels to Kabul, meets Taliban amid border tensions

Hina Rabbani Khar holds talks with her Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi a day after Pakistan Taliban ended truce.

Reuters

Pakistan foreign minister meets Afghan Taliban amid border concerns

Pakistan's minister of state for foreign affairs met Afghanistan's acting foreign minister in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest international minister to visit the country whose Taliban rulers are not formally recognised by foreign governments.

WEKU

For Afghans who fought against the Taliban, life is fraught under their rule

Those who put their lives on the line in the Afghan National Army and can't find a way out of Afghanistan are working menial jobs, sometimes moving locations every few days in fear for their safety.

Al Jazeera

Afghan women, undeterred by Taliban, secretly network for change

Female activists are secretly building support networks for marginalised women in Taliban-governed Afghanistan.

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Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

At World Food Programme distribution sites, "Everybody tells us, 'Last winter was difficult, but we have no idea how we will get through the coming winter,'" says a WFP spokesperson in Kabul.

Reuters

Blast in Afghan capital kills two

Two people were killed in an explosion that struck a car in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, police said.

Los Angeles Times

Afghanistan’s traditional delicacy chainaki and a master chef endure in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan — There's a comforting immutability to the way Waheed Merzazadah prepares for his day's work: the methodical cutting of the sheep carcasses down to the right size, the readying of the vegetables and spices, the patient poring over of his well-worn collection of chainaks, or teapots. Watching him…

Los Angeles Times

With the US out of Afghanistan, China comes calling

KABUL, Afghanistan — The first thing you see walking out of Kabul's airport is a billboard advertising Chinatown, which, if you visit, turns out to be a plain, off-white trio of 10-story towers in the Afghan capital's Taimani district. On the ground floor are shops selling Chinese products, including lights,…

Evening Standard

Raab’s ‘conflicts with staff caused Afghanistan evacuation delays’ – report claims

Afghans queue for an evacuation flight out of Kabul (LPhot Ben Shread/MoD/PA)

Al Jazeera

US watchdog blames Washington, Ghani for the fall of Kabul

SIGAR identifies six factors that contributed to the collapse of the Afghan government and return of Taliban to power.

Al Jazeera

Afghan women barred from gyms, Taliban official says

The Taliban has justified the ban, saying women ignored gender segregation and dress code orders imposed earlier.

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