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A new Iran deal shows the Biden administration is willing to pay a big price to free Americans

As the Biden administration heralds the forthcoming release of five U.S. citizens detained by Iran, it’s also confronting questions about the price being paid to bring them home

The Independent UK

Death of Mahsa Amini: A year of protests and bravery in Iran

It is one year since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, detained by Iranian authorities for allegedly not wearing a headscarf properly. Her killing resulted in a massive wave of popular unrest. Annette Young talks to Iranian journalist, Hannah Kaviani, on what has happened to the protest movement in…

France 24

Key Afghanistan-Pakistan border crossing reopens after nine days

Torkham crossing was closed after forces from both sides exchanged fire, stranding travellers and trucks.

Al Jazeera

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Key trade crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopens after 9 days

Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan say a key border crossing linking the two countries is open again

The Independent UK

We have an obligation to Afghan women and girls

Letter: Simon Diggins, a former defence attaché to Kabul, suggests the UK should amend its Afghan civilian resettlement scheme

The Guardian - UK

Monthly income of 78 per cent Afghans decreased to USD 59: Report

The monthly income of 78 per cent of people in Afghanistan has decreased to USD 59, Tolo News reported citing a survey by an organisation conducted in Afghanistan's national capital Kabul. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Afghan soldier who was arrested at US-Mexico border after fleeing Taliban is granted asylum

The brother of an Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border says his sibling has been granted U.S. asylum, allowing him to remain in the country

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Taliban gives a warm welcome to China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan

Beijing did not indicate whether Wednesday’s appointment signalled any wider steps such as formal recognition.

Al Jazeera

Tobias Ellwood quits as chair of defence select committee over Taliban remarks

Tory MP steps down after four committee member called for no-confidence vote over praise for Afghan regime

The Guardian - UK

Tobias Ellwood resigns as defence committee chair after video praising Taliban

Ex-defence minister said in July that Afghanistan had been ‘transformed’ under repressive regime

The Independent UK

In Iran and beyond, arrests of singers and dancers show how music can be a powerful tool of resistance

Iranian women are prohibited from singing and dancing in public. Yet many are posting videos on social media dancing and singing along to singer Mehdi Yarrahi’s song Roosarito (Your Veil). The wave of videos comes after Yarrahi’s August 28 arrest. The Islamic Republic of Iran deemed the song “illegal and…

The Conversation

Taliban hail China's new ambassador with fanfare, say it's a sign for others to establish relations

The Taliban hailed China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan with fanfare, saying his arrival is a sign for other nations to come forward and establish relations with them

The Independent UK

The Taliban have waged a systematic assault on freedom in Afghanistan, says UN human rights chief

The U.N. rights chief says the Taliban have waged a systematic assault on the freedom of Afghanistan's people

The Independent UK

$1bn in aid has been used to support failed ‘war on drugs’ over past decade, says report

Funding tied to drug prevention programmes given to 92 lower-income countries, including Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover

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Reflections on 9/11

Links to writing about 9/11 and its aftermath.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan says Afghanistan building ‘unlawful structures’ along tense border

Pakistan accuses Taliban gov’t of ‘indiscriminate firing’ at the key Torkham border crossing, closed for nearly a week.

Salon

How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror

The crimes of 9/11 wounded America — and fueled an endless, pointless war that could never be won, or even ended

The Independent UK

Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, UN drug agency says

Afghanistan is now the world's fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine

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The Independent UK

Hundreds of Afghans who applied for sanctuary in UK waiting over two years for decision

Exclusive: Some 745 Afghans, who have applied for sanctuary based on their work with the British Army, said they were being ‘destroyed’ by the wait

Evening Standard

West Midlands police protection officers for Malala Yousafzai used racist slurs, whistleblower claims

Close protection officers for Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, referred to her as “tikka masala”, a whistleblower has claimed.

Al Jazeera

Four soldiers, 12 TTP fighters killed in northwest Pakistan

The outlawed TTP group claims responsibility for the attack in Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The Guardian - UK

Women in Afghanistan are fighting an unequal war. We need your support

The Taliban have barred us from the workplace, cut our access to healthcare and closed schools to us. Must we struggle alone?

The Independent UK

New book details Biden-Obama frictions and says Harris sought roles 'away from the spotlight'

A new book about Joe Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused strain with his onetime boss, Harvard-educated Barack Obama

Radio France Internationale

Calls for France to recognise all Afghan women and girls as refugees

Activists in France have called on the government to systematically grant asylum to women and girls fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan, after the first all-female group of evacuees arrived in Paris. France flew five women over this week to apply for refugee status, but many thousands more are still seeking…

The Independent UK

UN food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

The U.N. food agency says it is forced to drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan in September due to a massive funding shortfall

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