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Five Pakistan soldiers killed in attack from Afghanistan, military says

Militants firing from inside Afghanistan killed at least five Pakistani soldiers at a border post in northwestern Kurram district on Sunday, the Pakistan military said, the second such attack since Taliban militants took over Kabul in August.

Reuters

Ali Agshar Hussaini: Australian wrestling champ who can’t compete for Australia

National champion in 57kg freestyle wrestling and bricklaying Hazara refugee’s visa status means he cannot move forward – in sport, or beyond

The Guardian - AU

Refugee hotel rooms ‘not good value for money’ says Afghanistan evacuee

Abdul has lived with his wife in a London hotel room for nearly five months.

The Independent UK

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Home Office to stop paying for Afghan refugees’ toiletries and medication

Letter to former guard at British embassy in Kabul says measures will come into effect on 11 February

The Guardian - UK

Single bomber carried out Kabul airport attack, U.S. military says

The U.S. military said on Friday that a single Islamic State bomber killed 13 U.S. troops and at least 170 Afghans at Kabul airport last August, not the complex attack originally suspected, and that it could not have been prevented with the resources on hand.

Reuters

UN Demands Taliban Provide Info on Two More Missing Women Activists

The United Nations has demanded the Taliban provide information on two more women activists allegedly detained by the group this week -- bringing to four the number missing this year. Since returning to power in August the Taliban have cracked down on dissent by forcefully dispersing women's rallies, detaining critics…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Zac Goldsmith: official who stated PM cleared Kabul pet rescue was ‘mistaken’

Foreign Office minister says official wrongly interpreted that Boris Johnson personally authorised airlift of Pen Farthing’s animals

The Guardian - UK

Don’t panic: why Ukraine doesn’t like western talk of imminent attack

Analysis: While Putin’s intentions remain unclear, Kyiv would rather it didn’t get classed as the next Kabul

The Guardian - UK

Claims of PM involvement in Afghan animal airlift ‘absurd’, says minister

A Tory frontbencher acknowledges ‘confusion’ with correspondence indicating the Prime Minister approved the operation

The Independent UK

Kabul bomber was on a suicide mission to India in 2017

Was deported after CIA tip-off

The Hindu

Soaring pneumonia and starvation is killing thousands of children in Afghanistan

Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan and killing children unable to access healthcare facilities, leading humanitarian organisation for children Save the Children said on Monday. Since the Taliban takeover last August, unemployment levels have exploded throughout Afghanistan, leaving parents unable to provide for their families. The direct result has been…

France 24

Conversations with God: Afghan evacuees in Philly say faith sustains them amid upheaval

PHILADELPHIA — The American troops shouted over the chaos of the crowds, Ahmad said, telling him to get inside the Kabul airport while he still could.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Afghanistan's Taliban told they can't take their guns to the funfair

Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group's spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort by the country's new rulers to soften their image.

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Axios

Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures

The notes shed new light on how the administration was unprepared to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the U.S. against the Taliban.

Al Jazeera

Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations: Report

Deal reported by Axios allows biweekly chartered flights and comes as US reportedly seeks to re-up Afghan resettlements.

Reuters

Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations - Axios

Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to resume chartered evacuations out of Kabul airport, the Axios news website reported on Tuesday citing an interview with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

The Independent UK

Taliban raised on war bring a heavy hand to security role

The Taliban are trying to keep discipline over thousands of young fighters who bring heavy-handed methods of war into their new roles as security forces in Afghanistan

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The Guardian - UK

Flee: inside the film about a Kabul boy who finds happiness, cats and a husband in Denmark

He escaped death, fled across the Baltic, and eventually found love and a new life. Jonas Poher Rasmussen describes how he turned Amin’s often harrowing story into an uplifting, award-winning animation

Al Jazeera

After Oslo talks, what’s next for Afghanistan?

Analysts say talks between Taliban and US and European officials imply a ‘de facto’ recognition of the Taliban gov’t.

ABC News

Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis battling to return home as Afghan health system crumbles

A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded overseas due to COVID-19 border restrictions is urging the NZ government to find a way to help women like her, saying she went public because her lawyer had represented 30 women who had been through it before.

Reuters

Taliban to reopen public universities, no word on female students

Afghanistan's public universities, closed since the Taliban seized power in August, will reopen in February, the Taliban acting higher education minister said on Sunday, without specifying whether female students would be able to return.

The Independent UK

From Kabul, pregnant reporter fights NZ govt to come home

A pregnant New Zealand reporter has chosen Afghanistan as a temporary base for her uphill fight to return home because of her country's stringent COVID-19 entry rules

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s chief of staff ‘spent day watching cricket’ just before Kabul fell

Dan Rosenfield watched England v India at Lord’s three days before Taliban forces entered capital, according to reports

The Independent UK

In suburban Kentucky, Afghan refugees make a new life

Some 75,000 Afghan refugees are expected to settle in America in 2022. Photographer Amira Karaoud visits new arrivals finding a fresh start in Bowling Green, Kentucky

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