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Afghan schools restart, with girls barred for third year running

Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls lamenting being banned from joining secondary-level classes for a third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 and imposing an austere vision of Islam with curbs the United

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Afghan school year begins without 1 million girls barred from education

The school year in Afghanistan began without girls, as the Taliban prohibited them from attending classes beyond the sixth grade. More than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, according to the U.N. children’s agency. Afghanistan is the sole country with such restrictions on education. The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without

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Afghan authorities capture rare snow leopard after livestock killed

In a similar incident last year, some 40 livestock animals were reportedly killed by a snow leopard in Badakhshan. Afghan authorities captured a rare snow leopard in the country’s mountainous northeast and were preparing to release it back into the wild after it reportedly killed dozens of livestock animals, a conservation group said Sunday. The

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Pakistani forces kill 7 militants near Afghan border

Pakistan security forces killed seven militants in a shootout in the country’s volatile southwest near the border with Afghanistan, the military said Monday. PAKISTAN SEEKS TO DE-ESCALATE CRISIS WITH IRAN AFTER DEADLY AIRSTRIKES THAT SPIKED TENSIONS The military said the intelligence-based operation was conducted in Zhob district in southwestern Baluchistan province. In a brief statement,

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US Sanctions 2 Former Afghan Republic Officials For Transnational Corruption – The Diplomat

On Monday, December 11, the United States announced the sanctioning of two former Afghan government officials for “their extensive roles in transnational corruption,” which allegedly misappropriated millions of dollars from government contracts intended to support Afghan security forces.  The two former officials, Mir Rahman Rahmani and his son, Ajmal Rahmani, were nominated for sanctions by

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IRC fears for survival of Afghan refugees from Pakistan

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Pakistan expels 165,000 Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan

Aid agencies have warned that Afghans forcibly deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan are in dire need of assisance. ADVERTISEMENT Pakistan’s security forces are detaining and deporting undocumented or unregistered foreigners after a deadline for Afghan migrants without papers to voluntarily leave passed on 1 November. The crackdown on illegal migration mostly affects Afghans because they

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