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I identified my precious brother after he fell from a plane fleeing the Taliban
Zaki Anwari was just l7 and a striker with the national youth football team when he attempted to flee Taliban rule by clambering on to the fuselage of a US cargo plane in Kabul. Ironically, the images of his falling body in August 2021 echo those made famous by the so- called “falling man” following al Qaeda’s terror strikes almost…
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Prince Harry arrives to open Invictus Games in Germany as royal fans gather – while other protesters dub him a ‘murderer’ after he described killing 25 Taliban in Afghanistan
Prince Harry was all smiles as he arrived for the opening ceremony of his Invictus Games in Germany – and a mix of royal fans and protestors gathered. An excited crowed of royal fans eagerly awaited the arrival of Prince Harry at the ceremony being held in Dusseldorf Town Hall. Over 100 people stood in the blazing sunshine as they…
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4 soldiers killed in Taliban attack in northwest Pakistan
Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din – At least four Pakistani soldiers were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday when the Taliban militants attacked two border check-posts in the restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province’s Chitral district, the army said. The Inter Services Public Relations – the media wing of the army – said that a “large group of terrorists equipped with latest…
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Two Years After Afghanistan Exit, Biden Resists Calls for More Taliban Contact
When the last American soldier flew out of Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, leaving the country to Taliban rule, the world braced for a human rights nightmare. In that sense, the Taliban have met expectations. The country’s extremist rulers, who seized power from an American-backed government of 20 years, have carried out revenge killings, torture and abductions, according to international…
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Venezuelan narco named ‘Taliban’ is dumped alive in the Caribbean Sea after cocaine takedown
Venezuelan narco named ‘Taliban’ is dumped alive in the Caribbean Sea after cocaine takedown Reinaldo Fuentes was thrown off a raft in the Caribbean Sea near Martinique in July Fuentes was a Venezuelan drug trafficker who acted as a middle man for the Venezuelan-based Cartel del Golfo in the Caribbean region He was kidnapped July 17 and dumped in the…
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Taliban Members Are Accused of Targeting Afghan Ex-Officials
Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, hundreds of members of the U.S.-backed former government have been detained, tortured or killed under the new government, despite Taliban leaders’ declaration of amnesty for actions during the long civil war, the United Nations reported on Tuesday. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a new report that it…
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Taliban branded ‘judge, jury and executioner’ as brutal regime ‘silences’ Afghan women
Afghan women have been silenced by the increasingly brutal Taliban regime, which is now operating as “judge, jury and executioner”, an exiled opposition figure has warned. Khalid Noor also believes any recognition of the Taliban in the absence of a categorical commitment to change would be “the height of diplomatic folly” by the West. Mr Noor, who is currently living…
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Taliban Official Says Women Lose Value if Their Faces Are Visible to Men in Public
KABUL, Afghanistan — Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home. The Taliban, who took over the country in August of 2021, have cited…
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A Talisman Against the Taliban
Our Lady of the Manifest, who has travelled across continents from one volunteer for refugees to another, started with an atheist. When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Sara Gilliam, an Ontario-based working mother, volunteered to help at-risk Afghans navigate the global refugee system. When most people think of the Afghan evacuation, their minds turn to those critical days in August…
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Taliban assassination survivor to lead Army
A former Special Forces chief and Afghanistan veteran is to lead the Army, say Whitehall sources. Lt Gen Roland “Roly” Walker is a 53-year-old married dad of three daughters who has also served in Iraq and Northern Ireland. The soldier avoided death in Helmand Province in 2010 when a mine threw his Ridgeback armoured vehicle six feet into the air.…
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