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Taliban govt harbours big dreams for Afghan rail
AFP via Yahoo News· 1 day 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...
Afghanistan: The Ghazni Intimidation Offensive
Strategy Page· 11 hours agoAugust 17, 2018: In the last week the Taliban lost over 300 men in Ghazni province during a futile attempt to seize the provincial capital. Ghazni is near the Pakistani border ...
Pakistan sends official to Kabul for talks with the Afghan Taliban on a deadly March suicide attack
Associated Press via AOL· 19 hours agoPakistan has sent an official to Kabul to share the findings of its investigation into a suicide bombing in March that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver with Afghanistan's ...
Russia plans to remove Taliban from banned organizations list
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn a move signaling a potential shift in policy, the Russian Foreign and Justice Ministries have...
Anti-Taliban Groups Gaining in Afghanistan
The New York Sun· 2 days agoNearly three years after President Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, resistance groups there are “gaining strength,” a new report says. The...
Real life in Afghanistan – as told by a Taliban commander
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had...
Today in History: May 31
The Herald Bulletin· 4 hours agoOn May 31, 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing...
Whistles at dawn: birdsong duels enthral Afghans
The Raw Story· 4 hours agoThe authorities have also warned against betting -- once a roaring trade on the sidelines of birdsong duels -- but the competitions remain immensely...
Russia invites Afghanistan's Taliban to major economic forum
Reuters· 4 days agoRussia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to...
Russian government proposes to remove Taliban from list of terrorist organizations
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAccording to Russian state-controlled news agency TASS, the step would pave the way for Russia to...
