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One Person Killed in Attack Claimed by IS in Kabul

par This Is Beirut, 21/04 13:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An explosive device killed one person and wounded three others in Kabul on Saturday evening, police in the Afghan capital announced. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Khorasan (EI-K) group. "An adhesive bomb exploded under a minibus in the Kot-e-Sangi district of Kabul. The driver was killed and three other civilians wounded," ...

Six Killed in Afghanistan Mosque Attack

par This Is Beirut, 30/04 11:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said that on Monday around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) "an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque" in Herat province's Guzara district. The state-run Bakhtar News Agency gave the ...

Three Spanish Tourists Killed in Afghanistan Terror Attack

par This Is Beirut, 18/05 14:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Three Spanish tourists and three Afghans were killed Friday in a shooting in the popular tourism destination of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, local and Spanish authorities said. The bodies were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group were fired on while walking through a market in ...

UN: No Afghan 'Reintegration' Without Progress on Rights

par This Is Beirut, 21/06 22:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Restrictions on women's rights continue to prevent Afghanistan's "reintegration" into the international community, a senior UN official said Friday, noting the Taliban's participation in upcoming talks in Doha is not legitimization of the isolated government. Since their 2021 return to power, Taliban authorities have not been formally recognized ...

Taliban Representatives Meet UN Envoys in Doha

par This Is Beirut, 30/06 19:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban government began meetings on Sunday with United Nations officials, as they attended talks in Doha with special envoys to the Central Asian country for the first time, a UN spokesperson said. The two-day, UN-hosted meeting in Qatar is the third of its kind in the gas-rich emirate in just over a year, but ...

Taliban Told to 'Include Women' in Public Life at UN Talks

par This Is Beirut, 01/07 23:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha. Rights organizations have strongly criticized the controversial UN move to exclude the groups, including women's rights activists, ...

Taliban Mark Three Years Since Takeover

par This Is Beirut, 14/08 11:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Taliban authorities kicked off celebrations of the third anniversary of their rule over Afghanistan on Wednesday at the former US Bagram air base. Hundreds of people, including Chinese and Iranian diplomats, gathered at the base, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) outside Kabul, for speeches and a military parade. Helicopters had carried senior ...

In a Rare Move, UAE Accepts Taliban Government Ambassador

par This Is Beirut, 23/08 20:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United Arab Emirates has accepted the credentials of an ambassador from Afghanistan's Taliban government, officials said, becoming just the second country after China to do so. The oil-rich Gulf state said it was committed to "building bridges" to help the Afghan people, after the Kabul foreign ministry announced on social media that new ...

Kabul Suicide Bombing Leaves Multiple Dead and Wounded

par This Is Beirut, 02/09 19:53 - Reading : less than a minute

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A suicide bomber detonated explosives in the Afghan capital on Monday, police said, killing six people and wounding 13 more. "This afternoon, a person wearing explosives on his body detonated them," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran posted on social media platform X. "Unfortunately six civilians, including a woman, were killed and 13 others ...

ECJ Finds Nationality And Gender Are "Sufficient" For EU Asylum

par This Is Beirut, 04/10 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Friday that nationality and gender are "sufficient" for an EU country to grant asylum to Afghan women, who have seen their rights stifled under Taliban rule. Since Taliban authorities seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, they have imposed an austere interpretation of Islam and progressively driven women ...

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