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The Taliban are sending workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD -- The Taliban are exporting Afghan workers to fill jobs in the Gulf nation of Qatar to ease unemployment in ...
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 ...
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, ...
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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 ...
The Taliban’s top environment official wants the UN to include Afghanistan in climate talks
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s top environment official on Monday called for Afghanistan’s inclusion in U.N. climate talks, ...
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 ...
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Biden called families of 3 Americans held by Taliban to tell them he ...
An NSC spokesman declined to respond to a CBS inquiry about that specific claim. Mahmood Habibi disappeared in Afghanistan in 2022, and the Taliban denied abducting him.
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Russia Becomes First Major Power To Back Taliban, Challenging U.S. Influence in the Region and Staking Claim to Afghanistan’s Rare Earth Minerals
In a dramatic shift with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first major world power to formally ...
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Tourists are trickling into Afghanistan. The Taliban are eager to welcome them
Tourism is a vital, multibillion-dollar industry for many countries. Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has left much ...
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 ...
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Russia becomes the first country to recognize Taliban's rule in Afghanistan
MOSCOW — Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow removed the group from its list of ...