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Join the Taliban or Isis?’: Afghan deportees forced to join insurgent groups see hope in peace deal – The National

06/06/202002/07/2020

When Aziz Amir was deported from the UK back to his native Afghanistan in 2011, he faced a choice: defy the Taliban and risk being murdered, or join them. Mr Amir, not his real name, chose the latter, not just […]

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From Kerala to Kabul prison: widow of Indian ISIS fighter tells her tale – The National

24/05/202026/05/2020

Sitting in a dimly lit cell, Mariyam described her journey from growing up as a Catholic in the south Indian state of Kerala to languishing in an Afghan prison as a member of the ISIS affiliate known as Islamic State […]

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An atrocity at an Afghan maternity ward upends the U.S.’s peace plans – The Globe and Mail

21/05/202026/05/2020

Dr. Bina Najeeb grew up during the civil war in Afghanistan, a period of extreme bloodshed and destruction in his country. He graduated from medical school when the fundamentalist Taliban regime was in charge, in the late 1990s. He has […]

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Taliban reaches out to Shias – The Hindu

10/05/202026/05/2020

Ahead of intra-Afghan talks, the Sunni insurgency asks Shias to join the fight against the ‘invaders’ The Taliban insurgency seems to be pulling all the stops it can to gain political legitimacy in Afghanistan ahead of the intra-Afghan peace talks. […]

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For Afghan Sikhs, it’s between violence and exodus – The Hindu

28/03/202015/04/2020

A brutal attack on Wednesday targeting a 400-year-old gurdwara in Kabul claimed 25 lives, including two minors and three women, further terrorising Afghanistan’s already dwindling minority Sikh community. “They had gathered for the morning prayers organised specifically for the nation […]

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Solidarity for Sikhs after Afghanistan massacre – Al Jazeera

26/03/202015/04/2020

Kabul, Afghanistan – The sounds of cries – some loud, many stifled – fill the halls of the Karte Parwan Gurudwara, one of only three remaining places of worship for the small Afghan Sikh and Hindu community in the capital of […]

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Afghanistan: ISIS attack on Sikh Gudwara in Kabul kills 25 – The National

25/03/202015/04/2020

Afghan authorities have raised the death toll from an attack by ISIS on a Sikh place of worship in the capital, Kabul, to 25 killed. The Interior Ministry says a lone ISIS gunman rampaged through a Sikh Gurdwara in the […]

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Uzbekistan’s ISIS problem: persecution at home may be radicalising young Muslims – The National

22/03/202015/04/2020

Shirzad, the 37-year-old militant sitting in a dimly lit interview room at Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, tries to excuse his decision to join one of the most brutal terror groups in the world. “I immigrated [to Afghanistan] from my country [Uzbekistan] […]

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Why Iran Is Deporting Scores of Afghan Refugees – Foreign Policy

14/01/202014/04/2020

It had been more than three decades since 48-year-old Zahra, who asked to be identified only by her first name, left Afghanistan with her husband to escape the increasing violence that would plague her country for many years to come. […]

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Amid escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, Afghans fear getting ensnared – The Hindu

14/01/202013/04/2020

 The assassination of Qassem Soleimani has had reverberations across the border in Afghanistan, a country that holds close ties to Iran. The Afghan government and its political leaders have been careful when it comes to condemning the assassination, as they wanted […]

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