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Inside Afghanistan's cryptocurrency underground as the country plunges into turmoil
Farhan Hotak isn’t your typical 22 year-old Afghan. In the last week, he helped his family of ten flee the province of Zabul in southern Afghanistan and travel 97 miles to a city on the Pakistani border. But unlike others choosing to leave the country, once his relatives were in safe hands, Hotak then turned around and came back so that he could protect his family home – and vlog to his thousands of Instagram followers about the evolving situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
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QAnon Thinks the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan Is a Hoax
Some QAnon believers went even further, claiming President Biden coordinated with the Taliban to distract from the election audit in Arizona.
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Afghanistan has 22 tons of gold in a New York vault. The Taliban can’t touch it.
The Biden administration has frozen the Afghanistan government's holdings in US banks, preventing the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars—including $1.25 in gold bullion in a New York bank vault.
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U.S. Halted Dollar Shipments to Afghanistan to Keep Cash Out of Taliban’s Hands
The Biden administration last week canceled bulk shipments of dollars headed for Afghanistan as Taliban fighters were poised to take control of the capital city of Kabul, part of a continuing scramble to keep hundreds of millions of dollars out of the hands of the terrorist group, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Face ID could help protect Afghan allies against US face recognition kit now in Taliban hands
One of the many worrying developments in the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan is that US face recognition and fingerprint devices and databases have been seized by the Taliban. They were apparently left behind during the hurried withdrawal of US forces, leaving coalition collaborators at risk from reprisals.
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Taliban’s Abdul Ghani Baradar is undisputed victor of a 20-year war
Return to power of movement’s co-founder embodies Afghanistan’s inability to escape history of conflict
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Taliban takeover: Uganda to take in 2,000 Afghan refugees
Uganda is to take in 2,000 refugees who have fled Afghanistan after Taliban militants took power on Sunday. The first group of 500 Afghans are expected to arrive at Entebbe Airport later on Tuesday. The deal was agreed following a request from the US government, Refugee Minister Esther Anyakun told the BBC.
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Facebook says it won't lift ban on posts that promote Taliban after the fall of Afghanistan
Facebook and TikTok said Tuesday they won’t lift bans on content that promotes the Taliban after the group took control of Afghanistan. The social media giants told CNBC they consider the Afghan group, which has used social media platforms to project its messages for years, to be a terrorist organization.
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Lay off Joe Biden: He didn’t “lose” Afghanistan — we are finally leaving it alone
We spent 20 messed-up years in Afghanistan flexing our muscles and money, and now we are making a messy exit
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Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
Every photo and every data point is a link to the old way of life in Afghanistan – and a reason for Taliban retribution
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Chinese state media says Afghanistan a lesson for Taiwan on how U.S. abandons allies
"Some historians also point out that abandoning allies to protect U.S. interests is an inherent flaw that has been deeply rooted in the U.S. since the founding of the country," the editorial said.
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Taliban's Afghanistan takeover presents fresh challenge for social media companies
The Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan poses a new challenge for big U.S. tech companies on handling content created by a group considered to be terrorists by some world governments.
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Photos of Women Are Being Erased in Kabul
As Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan’s capital and seized power, photos showed workers covering up images of women outside beauty salons. Photos of women on the facades of businesses in Kabul have been removed, as the Afghan capital falls under Taliban control.
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Resurgent Taliban take provincial capital, kill Afghan gov't spokesman
Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government's senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as U.S. and other foreign troops withdraw. A police spokesman in southern Nimroz province said the capital Zaranj had fallen to the hardline Islamists because of a lack of reinforcements from the Western-backed government.
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Britain Accelerates Relocation of Afghan Interpreters to U.K.
Britain will expedite the relocation of Afghan staff, largely interpreters, who worked for the country’s armed forces and are at increasing risk ahead of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops.
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30 Taliban militants killed in explosion during bomb-making class
Afghan National Army say the 30 fighters included six foreign nationals.
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Highway to Hell: A Trip Down Afghanistan's Deadliest Road
It’s past 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Zarifa Ghafari is running late for work. Six days a week, she commutes from her home in Kabul to Maidan Shar, the embattled capital of Wardak province, where she serves as the youngest female mayor in the country. Her office is just 30 miles southwest of the Afghan capital. But getting there requires a drive down National Highway 1, a massive U.S.-built showpiece once hailed as “the most visible sign” of America’s commitment to...
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Apologise, Afghanistan tells China after busting its espionage cell in Kabul
Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security has detained 10 Chinese citizens accused of operating a terror cell in Kabul
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Gunmen shoot dead Afghan TV journalist and her driver
Malalai Maiwand is latest victim of targeted attacks that have created climate of fear in Afghanistan
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Her Study Center Was Bombed. She Still Topped Afghanistan’s National University Exam.
Shamsea Alizada’s story of persistence is a reminder of advances in girls’ education in Afghanistan — and their vulnerability as the government negotiates with the Taliban.
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