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July 19, 2020 at 5:18 pm

India Offers Safety to Afghan Hindu and Sikh Minorities Facing Attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Indian government said it will expedite visas and the possibility of long-term residency for Afghanistan’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minorities, shrunken...

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July 19, 2020 at 1:09 pm

India Offers Safety to Afghan Hindu and Sikh Minorities Facing Attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Indian government said it will expedite visas and the possibility of long-term residency for Afghanistan’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minorities, shrunken...

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May 12, 2020 at 4:20 pm

From maternity ward to cemetery, a morning of murder in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — The morning was not yet over, but already it felt as if the very cycle of life in Afghanistan was under assault,...

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December 1, 2019 at 10:02 am

U.S. Drone Killed Afghan Civilians, Officials Say

KHOST, Afghanistan — A U.S. drone strike on a car carrying a woman who had just given birth in southeastern Afghanistan left five people dead,...

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June 30, 2019 at 12:20 pm

Dozens killed as Taliban bombs in 4 Humvees rip through Afghan district

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — When the Taliban overran the district center of Maruf in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar this year, the government resorted to...

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FILE — Afghan women praying at the Shah do Shamshera Shrine, known as the Shrine of the King of Two Swords, where female islamic scholar Farkhunda was beaten to death, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 15, 2015. A U.S. troop withdrawal worries Afghan women, who see Westerners as their only protectors not just from the Taliban -— but often from their own men. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times) — NO SALES. — XNYT41 XNYT41

January 27, 2019 at 3:49 pm

Afghan women fear peace with Taliban may mean war on them

Horror stories at the hands of Taliban enforcers are a staple for any educated Afghan woman older than 25 or so. Now those women have...

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October 7, 2018 at 12:17 pm

17 years to the day the U.S. invaded, 54 are killed across Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 54 people have been killed across Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, according to a tally based on interviews with...

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Kam Air employees with the coffins of seven Ukrainian colleagues who were among the victims of a recent Taliban siege of a hotel, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 24, 2018. After the attack, more than 30 of the airline’s foreign employees left the country because they no longer felt safe. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)

January 26, 2018 at 6:46 pm

Bloody Taliban attack grounds much of Afghan airline

With insurgents threatening road travel, Kam Air has kept Afghanistan moving. But its future looks grim, with foreign crew members dead or fleeing.

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