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Sixty Afghan girls hospitalized after school poisoning, police say
FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter is seen at the Taliban flag-raising ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 31, 2022.REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
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Qatar prime minister, Taliban chief hold secret Afghan talks, source says
FILE PHOTO: Qatar's then deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Washington, U.S. February 10, 2023. Kevin Wolf/Pool via REUTERS
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Canadian Afghan advisers take government to court over alleged discrimination
Storm clouds pass by the Peace Tower and Parliament Hill Tuesday August 18, 2020 in Ottawa.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Iran and Taliban exchange gunfire at Afghan border, escalating tensions over water rights
This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)
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Rights groups slam severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as ‘crime against humanity’
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Two top international rights groups on Friday, May 26, slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying they amount to the “crime against humanity of gender persecution.” (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
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The Taliban is preventing Afghanistan’s men from standing up for its women
Ruchi Kumar
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Terrified of the Taliban, families of Canada’s Afghan advisers plead for help
Canadian soldiers stand beside a canal near the village of Charbagh on the outskirts of Kandahar in this Oct. 3, 2009 photo. Canadians who served in Afghanistan say many of their Afghan family members don't qualify to come to Canada, even though their lives are at risk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland
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UN urges Afghanistan’s Taliban to reverse bans on women
A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport
FILE - A carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, on Aug. 29, 2021, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Hoover died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other U.S. service members. The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 service members and about 170 Afghans. That is according to the father of a Marine killed in the attack who was briefed on April 25, 2023, by military officials. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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UN asks Afghan staff to stay home until May after Taliban bars women from working
FILE - The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. The U.N. said Wednesday, April 5, 2023, that it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan female staffers from working at the agency, calling it an “unparalleled” violation of women's rights. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Biden’s Afghanistan report mostly blames Trump for chaotic U.S. withdrawal
Families begin to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Samuel Ruiz/Handout via REUTERS.
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Gunmen kill two police in northwest Pakistan
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
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Three British men being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan
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UN says Afghan girls’ education activist arrested in Kabul
In this photograph taken on May 17, 2022, Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath and advocate for girls' education in Afghanistan, speaks to children during a class next to his mobile library in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province. - The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said on March 28, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP) (Photo by SANAULLAH SEIAM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Suicide bomber kills six people near foreign ministry in Kabul
An ambulance carries victims from near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on March 27, 2023. - A suicide attack on March 27 not far from Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Morning Update: Federal budget will prioritize clean electricity in face of U.S. competition
Manitoba Hydro power lines just outside Winnipeg, Monday, May 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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‘Nobody’s perfect,’ Foreign Minister Melanie Joly says as MPs chide Afghan evacuation
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly appears before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration in Ottawa on Wednesday March 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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The Taliban, Afghanistan’s governing terrorists, face a terror problem of their own
Ruchi Kumar
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Ottawa is set to finally allow Canadian aid to reach Afghanistan. What took so long?
Allan Rock and Warda Shazadi Meighen
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Islamic State claims responsibility for killing Taliban governor in Afghanistan
Taliban fighters stand guard outside the hospital after a bomb blast in Mazar-e Sharif, the capital city of Balkh province, in northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Mar. 9, 2023. A bomb killed a Taliban-appointed provincial governor and two others in Afghanistan's Mazar-e- Sharif Thursday, a Taliban police spokesman said. (AP Photo/Abdul Saboor Sirat)
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Afghan broadcaster airs rare all-female panel to discuss rights on International Women’s Day
FILE PHOTO: A female presenter for Tolo News, Khatereh Ahmadi, while covering her face, works in a newsroom at Tolo TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
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Under the Taliban, Afghanistan’s women health care workers may work but under supervision
Afghan people stand with food aid being distributed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) at a gymnasium in Kabul on January 17, 2023. - At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan, after assurances from the Taliban authorities that Afghan women can continue to work in the health sector. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canadian NGO bridges education gap for Afghan girls affected by Taliban ban
An Afghan girl reads the Koran in a madrasa or religious school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
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Afghanistan envoy defies Taliban to keep embassy running, seeks Canadian aid fix
Hassan Soroosh, the pre-Taliban ambassador of Afghanistan is seen in a portrait at the Embassy of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Ottawa, on Monday, March 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Afghan Nobel Peace Prize nominee Mahbouba Seraj calls for Taliban talks
Human rights' activist Mahbouba Seraj talks during an interview at her home in Kabul, Afghanistan September 28, 2021. Photo/Asmaa Waguih
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House Republicans open another investigation of Afghanistan withdrawal
House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., opens a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the border, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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Media watchdog urges release of journalist detained in Kabul
FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter is seen at the Taliban flag-raising ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 31, 2022.REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
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Pakistani troops kill two militants in raid near Afghan border
Cricket fans hold Pakistan flag as they wait to enter the National Cricket Stadium before start the first Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and England in Karachi on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) (Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghan women can no longer support their families after Taliban ban
Photos provided by Sweeta Naimi (main subject in story) They are from classes she was visiting in Herat. She said they were taken in October 2022.
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Once aligned, Pakistan and Afghan Taliban being torn apart by violence, mistrust
Rescue workers gather to remove the rubble to look for survivors, after a suicide blast in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
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Afghan female students not allowed to sit university entrance exam, says Taliban ministry
FILE - Afghan women students stand outside the Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 21, 2022. The United Nations' human rights chief on Tuesday Dec. 27, 2022 decried increasing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, urging the country's Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. He pointed to “terrible consequences” of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organizations. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
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UN aid chief asks Taliban authorities for more exemptions to female NGO worker ban
Martin Griffiths, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara
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UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights
File - A Save the Children nutrition counsellor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)
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Ottawa, and the lessons unlearned in Afghanistan
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Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul home, police say
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen last night at her house in Kabul on January 15, 2023. - Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the previous Western-backed regime who had turned down the opportunity to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power in August 2021. "Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on January 15. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)