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The folly of a war with Iran

THE neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into yet another military fiasco with Iran...

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Afghanistan welcomes upgraded ties with Pakistan

Afghanistan has welcomed the decision to upgrade diplomatic relations with Pakistan, where the Taliban government’s foreign minister is due to travel in the coming days, his office said on Saturday...

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Pak FM visits Kabul amid rising Afghan deportations

Pakistan’s foreign minister arrived Saturday in Afghanistan to meet Taliban officials after his country expelled more than 85,000 Afghans, mostly children, in just over two weeks...

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Four publicly executed in a day in Afghanistan

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban’s return to power.

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Taliban release 2,463 prisoners ahead of Eid

Afghanistan’s Taliban government released nearly 2,500 prisoners ahead of celebrations marking the end of Ramadan, the supreme court said on Saturday, in a country where the UN has warned of a growing prison population.

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New generation of Afghan women shift from burqa

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban’s oppression of women...

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Afghanistan can ignore boycott calls: Shahidi

Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi on Thursday said calls from other nations for a boycott of their matches because of the treatment of women by the ruling Taliban did not effect his team.

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Iran, Afghanistan call for more ties in Kabul talks

Iran and Afghanistan called for increased cooperation during a trip to Kabul by Tehran’s foreign minister on Sunday, the highest-level Iranian official to visit the Afghan capital since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021....

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Hundreds of Afghans detained in Pakistan

Afghanistan’s embassy in Pakistan said around 800 Afghans living in the capital have been detained by authorities, including some who are registered with the UN’s refugee agency.

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Rashid spins Afghanistan to brink of victory

Leg-spinner Rashid Khan took six wickets in a row to put Afghanistan on the verge of victory in the series-deciding second Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on Sunday.

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46 killed in Pakistan air attack on Eastern Afghanistan

Pakistan air strikes in an eastern border region of Afghanistan killed 46 civilians, the Taliban government said on Wednesday, whilst a Pakistan security official said the bombardment had targeted ‘terrorist hideouts’.