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September 19, 2025

Taliban’s release was holding an elderly British couple

The couple got married in Kabul in 1970 and have spent almost two decades living in Afghanistan. – Qatar’s government An elderly British couple held in Afghanistan for almost eight months was released on Friday, Taliban authorities said, after pressure built to release the couple for fears of their health. Taliban officials refused to describe in detail why Peter Reynolds, 80, and his 76 -year -old wife Barbara, were arrested in February as they returned home. “We have been treated very well, we look forward to seeing our children,” said Barbara, who stands next to her husband on the asphalt

August 29, 2025

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International

Taliban -bound Talibans are looking at the airspace for unexpected

A view from inside a commercial plane flying over the city of Kabul in November 2021, after the Taliban acquisition in August of that year. – AFP Farly above Kabul, the Taliban government, which has been committed to cash, has identified a potentially lucrative revenue flow: the Afghan airspace. As the Israeli and Iranian missile exchange threw the flight trails this year, the skies over Afghanistan offered carriers a less hectic and faster route to Ply – for a flat overclight fee, according to industry involved. The US Air Authority facilitated restrictions on the country’s airspace and paved the way

August 29, 2024

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International

Afghan women post videos of themselves singing to protest the Taliban’s restrictive laws

Listen to the article Afghan women have launched an online protest by uploading videos of themselves singing in defiance of the Taliban’s latest draconian laws. The new restrictions, imposed on August 27, 2024, require women to remain silent in public and hide their faces and bodies, further removing their basic freedoms. Women from both Afghanistan and abroad challenge these norms by singing about their struggle for freedom. In one video, a woman sings with her face and body fully covered, lamenting the restrictions imposed by the Taliban, who have silenced women and confined them to their homes. The lyrics of

April 29, 2024

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International

Taliban’s treatment of women under scrutiny at UN rights meeting

GENEVA: Afghanistan’s Taliban are facing criticism over their human rights record at a UN meeting on Monday, with Washington accusing them of systematically denying women and girls their human rights. However, in a difficult first for the UN Human Rights Council, the current rulers of the country concerned will not be present because they are not recognized by the world body. Instead, Afghanistan will be represented by an ambassador appointed by the previous US-backed government, which the Taliban overthrew in 2021. In a series of questions drawn up in a UN document ahead of the review, the United States asked

December 20, 2023

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International

The Taliban’s bid for the UN seat has been rejected for the third time

Islamabad: A powerful United Nations committee that approves the accreditation of diplomats into its system has refused to grant the Afghan Taliban a seat at the world body. This was the third time a nine-member UN credentials committee has rejected a request by the interim Afghan Taliban to give a seat to their UN representative. After taking power in August 2021, the Taliban interim government moved the UN asking it to assign its representative a seat in New York. The Taliban government has appointed Suhail Shaheen, a former representative of the Taliban political office in Doha, as the UN’s permanent

Taliban’s release was holding an elderly British couple

Taliban -bound Talibans are looking at the airspace for unexpected

Afghan women post videos of themselves singing to protest the Taliban’s restrictive laws

Taliban’s treatment of women under scrutiny at UN rights meeting

The Taliban’s bid for the UN seat has been rejected for the third time

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