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Taliban Spokesman Accidentally Reveals His Location On Twitter
A terribly embarrassed Taliban spokesman is on the hunt for a new hiding spot after accidentally revealing his location in a series of geo-tagged tweets last week. Zabiullah Mujahid apparently forgot to disable the location identification system automatically built into Twitter before tweeting at least three times over the course of two days last week, outing his hiding spot in Sindh, Pakistan, Quartz reports.
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$500M worth of US-bought planes destroyed by Afghans, sold as scrap for 6 cents a pound
Sixteen military transport planes bought by the United States government for the Afghan Air Force (AAF) at a cost of nearly $500 million were recently destroyed by the Afghan military and sold for scrap parts at around six cents per pound, prompting a government inquiry to determine why millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted on the ill-fated program.
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Last U.S. Marines, British Combat Forces End Afghan Operations, Prepare Withdrawal
The last U.S. Marines unit and final British combat troops in Afghanistan officially ended their operations on Sunday
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U.S. and Britain officially end military operations in Afghanistan
The last U.S. Marines unit and final British combat troops in Afghanistan officially ended their operations on Sunday as they packed up to leave the country and transferred a massive military base to the Afghan military.
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Fanged deer pops up in Afghanistan, 60 years after its last appearance
It's aliiiiiiiiiive! Although the last reported sighting of the Kashmir musk deer was around 60 years ago, a Wildlife Conservation Society study confirms that these fanged beasts are still alive and kicking.
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Afghanistan: Out with NATO, in with China?
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrives in Beijing today to talk minerals and stability. China is not ready to fight the Taliban but wants a regime that doesn't foment jihadi trouble in Xinjiang.
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Groom, Paralyzed In An Accident, Surprises Bride With Wedding Dance
Sgt. Joey Johnson has used a wheelchair since August 2012 when he was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident following a 10-month tour in Afghanistan. But at his June 2014 wedding to Michelle Johnson, he surprised his beautiful bride by standing for ...
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Bomb kills at least 45 Afghans at volleyball match
A suicide bomber attacked a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, officials said.
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The Taliban's psychiatrist
In the late 1990s the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, but the fighting that brought them to power left many militants struggling with the psychological effects of war. One doctor recognised the problem and, although he disagreed with the Taliban's ideology, agreed to treat them.
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Fears build as CIA’s ‘ghost prisoners’ vanish into Afghan jails
A CIA prisoner whose treatment set the torture template in the agency’s notorious Salt Pit jail outside Kabul, and another known as a “ghost prisoner” – held in such secrecy that for years even his name was classified information – have disappeared into Afghanistan’s prison system, where they are once more at risk of torture.
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Afghan interpreter identifies colleagues in beheading footage
Afghan national in UK court challenge over family’s right to join him in UK says video shows price colleagues paid for helping British.
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Getting Out Of Afghanistan
By the time we thought about leaving Afghanistan, we'd been tossing gear into the country for more than a decade. This is the story of how we moved...
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Afghan Taliban not a terrorist organisation
The US does not consider Afghan Taliban as a terrorist outfit, but conceded the tactics adopted by them similar to terrorism. "They (the Taliban) do carry out tactics that are akin to terrorism. They do pursue terror attacks in an effort to try to advance their agenda," the White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest told reporters yesterday. The United States, he noted has designating the Taliban in such a way so as to put in place some financial sanctions against the leaders...
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What If America Had Never Invaded Afghanistan?
Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Osmani, the Taliban’s military leader for southern Afghanistan, sat stolidly, his great bulk supported in an overstuffed chair to my left. It was October 2, 2001, and events had been hurtling forward since the terrorist attacks of September 11. President George W. Bush had delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban in his State of the Union address on September 20: Hand over al-Qaeda’s leadership or share their fate.
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Ski Afghanistan
Skiing on breathtaking peaks above 4,000 metres, in a region where not a single ski lift has ever been built, one talented young Afghan is finding freedom from the restrictions and repressions of his country. Around here all you need to start skiing is a couple of planks of wood, and a bit of rope to secure your shoes.
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For The First Time, An Afghan First Lady Steps Into The Spotlight
In a country where women are seen but not often heard, Rula Ghani intends to play a prominent role. The wife of Afghanistan's new president hopes to help the country's most vulnerable people. In an interview at the Afghan Embassy in Washington, D.C., with Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, Ghani discusses the challenges facing Afghanistan, her opinion on the needs of the country's most vulnerable populations and what she would like Americans to know about Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan Avalanches, Winter Storm Leave 108 People Feared Dead
An emergency official in Afghanistan says at least 108 people are feared killed in avalanches amid a massive winter storm. Slides buried homes Wednesday across four provinces.
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The spy who came in from al-Qaeda
Aimen Dean is a founder member of al-Qaeda, who changed tack in 1998 and became a spy for Britain's security and intelligence services, MI5 and MI6. Interviewed by Peter Marshall, he describes his years working in Afghanistan and London as one of the West's most valuable assets in the fight against militant Islam.
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Anand Gopal, How to Create an Afghan Blackwater
TomDispatch fittingly reprints "The Real Afghan War: How an American Fantasy Conflict Created Disaster in Afghanistan" by Anand Gopal
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An Afghan nightmare: Forced to marry your rapist
It is an unimaginably hideous outcome. To be raped by your cousin's husband; be jailed for adultery as your attacker was married; to suffer the ignominy of global uproar about your jailing and assault, but be pardoned by presidential decree; and then to endure the shame and rejection from a conservative society that somehow held you to blame. The solution in this society? Marry your attacker.
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