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On January 21, the United States struck a prisoners’ swap deal with the Taliban in which two Americans were exchanged for a Taliban member convicted on terrorism and drug trafficking charges in 2008. American citizens Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were swapped for Khan Mohammad, who had been serving a life sentence in a federal […]
Taliban announce death of Australian ex-hostage who returned to Afghanistan Taliban authorities announced the death of Australian Jibra’il Omar, who returned to Afghanistan after being kidnapped and held hostage by the group for more than three years, AFP reports. Omar, originally named Timothy Weeks, was taken hostage in 2016 alongside an American academic as they […]
Mohammed Naeem knew the Kabul street where he and his brothers built matching apartment buildings was too narrow, but he was still in disbelief as their homes were reduced to rubble to widen the road. He had received notice 10 days earlier that he would have to destroy three-quarters of his building immediately, one of […]
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed Afghanistan’s minister for refugees at his office in Kabul, jihadist monitor SITE said. Taliban authorities had already blamed Isis for the “cowardly attack”, which a government official said had killed minister Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani and a number of his colleagues on Wednesday. The explosion – […]
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