He Was Once a Covert Taliban Operative. Now He’s the Friendly Taxman.
Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, has the hard job of raising money in an ...
UN tells Afghan rulers: no prosperity until they reverse bans on women and girls
The U.N. Security Council is telling Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers that peace and prosperity are “unattainable” until they ...
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Taliban frees an American man who was abducted while traveling in Afghanistan more than 2 years ago
WASHINGTON — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration ...
Taliban insist Afghan women’s rights are protected as UN says their bans cannot be ignored
The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the U.N. condemned ongoing employment and education bans.
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American man held by the Taliban for more than 2 years has been released, State Department says
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal brokered by U.S. and Qatari ...
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Suicide bombing at Pakistan Islamic seminary kills six, including Taliban-linked cleric
The head of the religious school was among those ... considered the father of the Taliban. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The attacker, wearing an explosive-laden ...
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Taliban insist Afghan women’s rights are protected despite ban on education
Also on Saturday, the UN renewed its call for the Taliban to lift the bans. “The erasure of women and girls from public life cannot be ignored,” said Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the UN missio ...