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#Afghanistan#Assassinations#Conflict#Features#ISIS#Journalism#Taliban#Taliban Siege 2021

Afghan journalists facing an impossible choice under the Taliban

24/08/202129/03/2022

For five days after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban insurgency, Mariam (not her real name) didn’t leave her house. As a professional athlete, this was very unusual. However, 23-year-old Mariam is also one of the city’s up and […]

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Afghan deminers to ‘continue to save lives’ despite deadly attack

16/06/202123/06/2021

Baghlan, Afghanistan – Aqa Mohammad has not spoken much since he found out that his father, Ghulam Mohammad, a mine clearance professional in the Baghlan province of Afghanistan, was murdered by armed gunmen last week. “My father was a brave man and accomplished […]

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Their Names Showed Up on WhatsApp ‘Taliban Kill Lists.’ Now, Some Are in Hiding.

07/06/202107/10/2021

Zainullah Stanekzai hasn’t seen his family since he was forced to leave his home in southern Afghanistan last year in November, after his name appeared on a “kill list” of alleged Taliban targets that was being widely circulated on WhatsApp […]

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‘Didn’t want to be one of the bodies’: Rising violence is forcing Afghan women to quit media

23/03/202123/06/2021

Last year, at only 21 years, Sofiea Sakhi Karimi was forced to retire from her brief but celebrated career in the Afghan media owing to growing threats and violence against media workers in her country. “Working in Afghanistan as a […]

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Here’s Why Sikh and Hindu Minorities are Leaving Afghanistan

02/09/202009/10/2020

Since he was a child, 60-year-old Nidan Singh Sachdeva has never missed a single Saavan mela, an annual religious gathering celebrated by the Sikh community in Afghanistan’s Paktya province to mark the monsoon season. The dry mountainous terrains of Afghanistan […]

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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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Afghan woman nurses babies of mothers murdered in Kabul hospital attack – The National

18/05/202026/05/2020

Firoza Omar was nursing her four-month-old son at her home in Kabul when she heard of reports of an attack on a maternity hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan capital. In one of the most brutal incidents […]

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Massacre in the maternity ward – The Hindu

16/05/202026/05/2020

The terrorist attack on a Kabul hospital that killed 24 is likely to delay the intra-Afghan peace talks The journey from the cradle to the grave lasted only a few hours for some Afghan babies at the 100-bed Maternity Hospital in the […]

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