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Top UN female envoys meet Taliban in Kabul to discuss ban on women aid workers | CNN
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Some of the United Nations’ most senior female officials have been meeting Taliban leaders in Kabul to discuss the ban on female aid workers, as Afghanistan battles…
3 dead and foreign nationals injured after gunmen attack Kabul hotel | CNN
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Three people were killed and many others injured after gunmen attacked a hotel in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on Monday.
The attack started around 2:30 p.m.…
Canadian Afghanistan war veteran finds music helps soothe battle with PTSD | Globalnews.ca
Despite dabbling in music since he was a teenager, it was only recently that Afghanistan war veteran Dennis MacKenzie came to appreciate its power to ease the mental turmoil he has struggled with since returning to Canada.…
Afghanistan minister won’t commit to girls’ schooling despite international demand – National…
Afghanistan’s foreign minister appealed to the world for good relations on Monday but avoided making firm commitments on girls’ education despite international demands to allow all Afghan children to go back to school.
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Afghanistan’s Taliban nightmare — and how women are resisting – National | Globalnews.ca
These are the voices of women the Taliban doesn’t want the world to hear.“My life has become just to eat, sleep and repeat,” says 20-year-old Aisha. “The world has left us in disaster under the Taliban regime.”…
Video: ‘Imminent Threat’ or Aid Worker: Did a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kill the Wrong…
In one of the final acts of its 20-year war in Afghanistan, the United States fired a missile from a drone at a car in Kabul. It was parked in the courtyard of a home, and the explosion killed 10 people, including 43-year-old Zemari Ahmadi…
‘Holding them hostage’: Taliban not letting planes of evacuees take off, U.S. official says –…
At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging…
Afghan refugee who survived horrific spousal attack pleads for girls still in country |…
A woman who fled to Canada as a refugee, after her husband shot her in the face in Afghanistan, says she’s getting heartbreaking pleas for help from women still trapped in the country.
Shakila Zareen, when she was only 17 years…