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Taliban govt harbours big dreams for Afghan rail
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoOn the edge of the Afghan border with Uzbekistan, where the railway abruptly stops, throngs of young men transfer sacks of wheat or flour from freight...
Real life in Afghanistan – as told by a Taliban commander
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had...
Afghan mine-clearer killed by Taliban after it sees him in Emmy-winning film
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAn Afghan contractor who worked for the US military was killed by the Taliban after appearing in an...
Russia plans to remove Taliban from banned organizations list
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn a move signaling a potential shift in policy, the Russian Foreign and Justice Ministries have...
Russian government proposes to remove Taliban from list of terrorist organizations
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAccording to Russian state-controlled news agency TASS, the step would pave the way for Russia to...
Mines, unexploded ordnance a daily menace for Afghanistan's children
AFP via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge...
Russia invites Afghanistan's Taliban to major economic forum
Reuters· 3 days agoRussia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to...
7 Pakistani soldiers, 23 militant killed in separate shootouts during raids along the Afghan border
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPakistan's security forces were conducting several raids in the country's volatile northwest, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, when shootouts ensued leaving seven ...
What it's like backpacking in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as an American
Newsweek· 5 days agoThe Taliban are a militant group that ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s and early 2000s and...
A group of armed men burns a girls' school in northwest Pakistan, in third such attack this month
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday ...