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Afghanistan: dozens killed in blast at Kandahar mosque

15/10/202115/06/2022

At least 47 people were killed when a large explosion tore through a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers. Over 70 people are wounded, a Taliban official said. A suicide bomber detonated his vest […]

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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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Killing of female polio vaccinators puts Afghan eradication campaign at risk

23/04/202123/06/2021

Gul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots. The 22-year-old’s immediate concern was for the safety of her friend Negina and other colleagues nearby. […]

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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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