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Tunics & Turbans: Afghan Students Don Taliban-Imposed Uniforms
4/30/2025
Bombing in a Former Stronghold of Pakistani Taliban Kills Seven People and Wounds 16
4/28/2025
About 12,000 Afghan Families Deported From Pakistan in One Month
4/28/2025
50% Surge in Return of Afghan Migrants From Iran
4/28/2025
Pakistan Troops Kill 54 Militants Attempting To Cross Border From Afghanistan: Army
4/27/2025
Over 103,000 Afghan Migrants Repatriated in Less Than a Month
4/24/2025
Russia Allows Taliban To Have Moscow Ambassador
4/23/2025
Czech Soldiers Charged in Death of Afghan Prisoner Following Interrogation
4/22/2025
Taliban Change Tune Towards Afghan Heritage Sites
4/22/2025
After a Year of Hostility, Pakistan and Afghanistan Seek Diplomatic Reboot
4/22/2025
Afghan PM Condemns Pakistan's 'Unilateral' Deportations
4/19/2025
Pakistan Confirms Its Expulsion of More Than 80,000 Afghans Since April 1
4/18/2025
Russia Removes Taliban From Terror List
4/17/2025
Russia's Supreme Court Suspends Ban on Afghanistan's Taliban
4/17/2025
Despite Crackdown, Afghan Refugees Remain Rooted in Pakistan's Northwest
4/16/2025
Taliban Denies Smuggling of US-Origin Weapons to Pakistan
4/15/2025
Afghanistan and the Scourge of Landmines: A Call for Global Support
4/15/2025
Pakistan Accelerates Deportation of Afghans: UN
4/15/2025
US Weapons From Afghan War Give Pakistani Militants a Deadly Advantage
4/14/2025
Pakistan Deports 40,000 Afghans in Just 11 Days
4/13/2025
Pakistan Repeats Terrorism Claims Amid Strained Ties With Afghanistan
4/13/2025
Taliban Leader Justifies Public Executions as 'Part of Islam'
4/13/2025
Trump Officials End 'Temporary Protected Status' for Afghans, Cameroonians
4/13/2025
Pakistan Warns It May Expel Thousands of Afghans Hoping for Resettlement in the West
4/10/2025
Taliban Morality Enforcers Arrest Men for Having the Wrong Hairstyle or Skipping Mosque, UN Says
4/10/2025
Pakistan Says Host Countries Must Resettle Afghan Nationals by April 30
4/10/2025
US Restores Urgent Food Aid, Except in Afghanistan and Yemen
4/9/2025
Pressure Builds on Afghans Fearing Arrest in Pakistan
4/9/2025
Taliban Deny Reports of American Airbase Handover
4/8/2025
Kabul Slams Pakistan's 'Violence' Against Afghans Pressured To Leave
4/8/2025
Pakistani Security Forces Kill Nine Militants in a Raid Near the Afghan Border, the Military Says
4/7/2025
Thousands of Afghans Depart Pakistan Under Repatriation Pressure
4/7/2025
1000s of Afghan Migrants Forcibly Returned From Pakistan
4/6/2025
British Couple Held in Afghanistan: Families Seek Trump's Help
4/3/2025
Eid Appeal: Let Girls Return to School, Say Afghan Students
4/1/2025

Viewpoints

America, Afghanistan and the Price of Self-Delusion
1/3/2025
The Real Tragedy of Afghanistan
8/30/2024
The US Backed Kidnapping, Torture and Murder in Afghanistan
5/23/2024
The Heroism of David McBride
5/16/2024
The US Invasion of Afghanistan Was Never Necessary
9/18/2023
Peace Be With Afghanistan
8/10/2023
Where Did We Go Wrong in Afghanistan?
6/19/2023
Afghanistan All Over Again
2/27/2023
What Ukraine Needs to Learn From Afghanistan
2/21/2023
We Must Not Forget the US War on Afghanistan
12/8/2022
Six Reasons the Afghan Government Utterly Collapsed During US Withdrawal
11/23/2022
Biden's Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs and Stenography
9/22/2022
Npr Devotes Almost No Coverage to the Afghans Starved By the US
9/6/2022
Amazing: US 'Credibility' Still Intact a Year After Afghanistan Withdrawal
9/2/2022
The Real Problem With Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal: It Came 10 Years Too Late
8/30/2022
Was the Fall of Afghanistan Inevitable?
8/22/2022
Was the Fall of Afghanistan Inevitable?
8/22/2022
Punishment Won't Cut It for Policy in Afghanistan
8/19/2022
Americans Must Face the Hard Truth on Afghanistan
8/18/2022
A Year After the US Withdrawal, Getting Out of Afghanistan Was Still the Right Call
8/17/2022
Joe Biden's Senseless Economic Strangulation of Afghanistan
8/16/2022
NPR Distorts History of US Invasion of Afghanistan
8/9/2022
DoD Contractors in Afghanistan Operate With Minimal Oversight
8/9/2022
Why the Afghan Government Collapsed After the US Withdrawal
5/20/2022
Deadly Pakistan Strikes in Afghanistan Reflect Growing Cross-Border Tensions
4/18/2022
Biden's Sanctions Threaten to Kill More Afghans Than Two Decades of War
3/10/2022
Seizing Afghanistan's Bank Reserves Will Further Damage American Interests
2/19/2022
Biden's Multi-Billion Afghan Theft Gets Scant Mention on TV News
2/16/2022
Biden Hammers a $7 Billion Nail Into Afghanistan's Coffin
2/14/2022
Biden Commits a Grave Injustice Against the Afghan People
2/11/2022
Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine
2/8/2022
US Sanctions on Afghanistan Could Be Deadlier Than 20 Years of War
2/7/2022
The Tragic US Exit From Afghanistan Was Rooted in Decades of Failure
2/5/2022
Biden Covertly Continues the US Forever War Against the Afghan People
1/26/2022
Released Video Footage Shows Disastrous US Drone Strike That Killed Kabul Family
1/20/2022

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