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Senior Taliban figure arrives in Kabul after decades in U.S. detention - spokesperson

A senior Taliban figure, Haji Bashir Noorzai, has been released after decades of detention by the United States and arrived in Kabul on Monday, a Taliban spokesperson said.

Reuters

‘Shameful’: UN denounces exclusion of Afghan girls from school

UN increasingly concerned the policy and other restrictions on basic freedoms will contribute to a deepening crisis.

Al Jazeera

United Nations calls Taliban exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'tragic and shameful'

The United Nations asks Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 to 12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school "shameful."

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UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'

The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”

The Independent UK

The six countries banned from going to the Queen's funeral as Russia snubbed amid war

Representatives from Russia - as well as five other countries - have not been invited to attend Her Majesty's state funeral on Monday, September 19

Daily Mirror

Taliban condemn U.S. move to form Swiss-based trust for Afghan central bank funds

The Taliban's foreign affairs ministry on Thursday condemned the United States' decision to transfer Afghan central bank reserves into a Swiss-based trust, saying it was against international norms.

Reuters

Meta Oversight Board objects to removing positive newspaper report on Taliban

Meta Platforms Inc's independent Oversight Board said on Thursday that Facebook should not have taken down a newspaper report about the Taliban that it considered positive, backing users' freedom of expression and saying the tech company relied too heavily on automated moderation.

Reuters

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Declassified report shows US predictions of IS group threat

A newly declassified U.S. intelligence report predicted in 2020 that the Islamic State group was likely to regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist movement

The Independent UK

Afghanistan blames border clash on Pakistan’s bid to build post

Taliban says Pakistan tried to erect a military structure on Afghan-Pakistani border, causing Tuesday’s deadly skirmish.

Al Jazeera

Lauren Boebert mocked for hilarious ‘wonton killings” speech blunder: ‘Careful where you dumpling the bodies’

Lawmaker was reading Bible passage from Romans and got phrase mixed up with the Chinese dumpling

The Independent UK

US seeks to sidestep Taliban with $3.5 billion Afghan aid plan

The U.S. will put $3.5 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves under the control of a Swiss-based oversight board to pay for limited financial services in the country while ensuring the Taliban regime doesn’t get access to the money, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

Tribune News Service

‘Facilitator role’ at heart of Qatar’s foreign policy, emir says

‘Our foreign policy aims to bring together different points of view,’ Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani tells Le Point.

Al Jazeera

Afghans keep close watch as some girls' schools open, then shut

Many Afghans are following news of a reversal in girls' school openings in eastern Paktia province for clues on whether the Taliban will loosen restrictions on girls' education after reneging on a pledge to reopen high schools in March.

Reuters

Saving Nezam From the Taliban

Green Beret Scott Mann suffered severe trauma following his three tours in Afghanistan. He never wanted to have anything to do with country again. Then his friend Nezam called to say that his life was in danger.

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Manchester Evening News

The six countries not invited to the Queen's state funeral

Three further countries have not been sent invites, while some other nations will only be represented by ambassadors.

The Independent UK

US sets up Afghan relief fund with frozen central bank money

The U.S. and Swiss governments and Afghan economics experts say they'll transfer $3.5 billion in frozen funds from Afghanistan’s central bank to use for the country’s people as hunger grips every province there

Reuters

Taliban, Pakistani forces clash along border, casualties reported

Taliban and Pakistani security forces exchanged fire along the after Pakistani soldiers tried to erect a military structure on the Afghan-Pakistani border, causing multiple casualties on both sides, the Taliban said on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

US to move $3.5bn in Afghan assets to Swiss-based trust

Housed in the Bank for International Settlements, new Afghan Fund will be managed by a board of trustees, the US says

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U.S. to move $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets to Swiss-based trust

The United States on Wednesday announced that it would transfer $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets into a new Swiss-based trust fund that will be shielded from the Taliban and used to help stabilize Afghanistan's collapsed economy.

Al Jazeera

Anti-Taliban tribal leader among 5 killed in Pakistan bombing

Peace committee leader Idrees Khan’s vehicle drove over an explosive device, killing him and two guards, police say.

Reuters

Anti-Taliban tribal leader among 5 killed in northwest Pakistan bombing

Five people were killed in a blast in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, including an influential anti-Taliban tribal leader, police said, in the fist major bombing in over a decade in an area that was once a battleground between security forces and militants.

The Hindu

Taliban reject UN report, say no women fired from government jobs

Since the Taliban seized power, they have imposed harsh restrictions on girls and women to comply with their austere vision of Islam

Reuters

Taliban says 40 rebel force members killed in northern Panjshir

The Taliban said on Tuesday they had killed 40 rebel force members, including four commanders, in the northern Afghan province of Panjshir.

France 24

Afghanistan: Underground radio station broadcasts lessons to girls stuck at home

Since the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, most girls have been banned from going to high school. But some women are resisting, like Hamida Aman, founder of Radio Begum. Against the rules, she has set up an underground school within her radio station. The girls, aged…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Unfinished business: US must do more to welcome Afghan refugees

In the year since the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghans have been forced to suffer through another administrative disaster, this one unfolding mostly in drab D.C. office buildings via mountains of monotonous paperwork.

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