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The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
The Taliban say a new labor export program to Qatar will ease unemployment at home. Registration opened on Tuesday for 2,000 ...
The Taliban criticize neighboring countries for their mass expulsion of Afghans
A Taliban deputy minister is criticizing other countries for a mass expulsion of Afghans. Iran and Pakistan are expelling ...
The Taliban are remaking Afghanistan in their image. It should have us all worried
This article first appeared on our partner site, Independent PersianSince returning to power, the Taliban has made spreading ...
Female tour guides in Afghanistan lead women-only groups as some travelers return
Afghanistan is seeing the emergence of local female tour guides, in a country whose Taliban government imposes the world’s ...
Taliban fighters 'have been brought to the UK on secret airlift flights' after Afghanistan data breach
Taliban fighters 'have been brought to the UK on secret airlift flights' after Afghanistan data breach - Earlier this month, ...
Afghanistan’s pioneering female tour guides are opening up the country for tourists
One of those visitors is Australian Suzanne Sandral. She originally wanted to see Afghanistan in the 1960s but the pressures ...
The Taliban’s top environment official wants the UN to include Afghanistan in climate talks
The Taliban want to be included in U.N. climate talks. A Taliban delegation attended last year’s COP29 climate talks in ...
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Taliban Boosts Economy with Skilled Worker Export Initiative to Qatar
The Taliban have launched a program to send 2,000 skilled Afghan workers to Qatar, aiming to reduce unemployment in ...
From ‘Sapiens’ to ‘The Book of Mormon’: The banned books the Taliban deems ‘deviant’ and ‘un-Islamic’
Noor Mohammad Saqib, the Taliban’s Minister for Religious Affairs, referencing what he called a “special decree” from ...
UN agency calls for global pause on deportations back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Exclusive: Afghans who worked for the previous Nato-backed administration face beatings, torture and mock executions in ...
Their country has been riven by war, corruption, and extremism. How do the people of Afghanistan keep going?
Burrowing into both Afghan family life and the country’s convoluted politics, Åsne Seierstad's "The Afghans" follows three people over several decades, culminating in the dramatic first year of the ...
The Trump administration claims no one has died due to US aid cuts. Our trip to Afghanistan suggests otherwise
The wail of a woman in a floral dress reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital ...