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Afghanistan: more than 500 assassinated by the Taliban in only six months

09/10/202009/10/2020

Fifteen Taliban members thought to be responsible for a spate of assassinations in Kabul and beyond were captured on Tuesday, Afghanistan’s primary intelligence organisation announced. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the men were tasked with carrying out assassinations […]

#Addiction#Afghanistan#Drugs#Features#Kabul

In Afghanistan, a Drug Sparks Hope — and Charges of Quackery

10/08/202014/08/2020

LAM GUL ALAM’S symptoms had been steadily worsening for weeks when he decided to visit an herbalist named Haji Mohammad Alkozai. The 30-year-old civil servant from Kabul had intently watched a video clip making the rounds on Afghan social media, in which […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Features#Kabul#Peace Process#Profile#Taliban#Women

Afghanistan’s Gen Z Is Fighting Back

27/07/202014/08/2020

KABUL, Afghanistan—There were few things that scared Fatima Khalil, a 24-year-old human rights activist who torpedoed her way across an increasingly volatile and patriarchal landscape of Afghanistan. One of them, Lima Ahmad, her older sister, told me in July, was […]

#Afghan Food#Afghanistan#Conflict#Coronavirus#Economy#Features#Kabul#Women

Street snacks to sanitiser: the Afghan women fighting coronavirus in Kabul – The Guardian

10/06/202002/07/2020

Freshta had spent months building up a franchise business to help to feed her family – and break a few taboos on women at the same time – when coronavirus hit Afghanistan. In November, the engineering student, (who has asked to […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Daesh#Features#India#ISIS#Kabul#Latest

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 […]

#Afghanistan#Elections#Kabul#Peace Process

Settlement without peace – The Hindu

23/05/202026/05/2020

Abdullah’s new job is to lead talks with Taliban at a time when President Ghani is going for war. After months of political discord, following an already delayed election and disputed results that saw two simultaneous presidential inaugurations, Afghan President […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Daesh#Donald Trump#ISIS#Kabul#Peace Process#Taliban

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 […]

#Afghanistan#Children#Conflict#ISIS#Kabul#Taliban

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 […]

#Afghanistan#Children#Conflict#ISIS#Kabul#Peace Process#Taliban#Women

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 […]

#Afghan Food#Afghanistan#Features#Food#Kabul#Latest#Taliban

The Ultimate Comfort Food of Afghanistan Is Served From a Teapot – Heated

07/05/202026/05/2020

There is a certain method to having the chainaki, a wholesome meat soup made in a teapot, called “chainak” in the Afghan language of Dari. First, you take the large naan that comes with every serving and break into tiny […]

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