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Taliban: Mosque blast at Interior Ministry in Kabul kills 4
By Associated Press — October 6, 2022
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The afternoon explosion took place as workers and visitors were praying inside a mosque of Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry.
Police: Death toll in Afghan capital mosque bombing now 21
By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi — August 19, 2022
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The mosque bombing comes just two days after the anniversary of the fall of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021.
Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric
By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi — August 17, 2022
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Italian Emergency hospital in Kabul said that at least 27 wounded civilians, including five children, were brought there from the site of the bomb blast.
Afghan Taliban hold clerics’ assembly, aiming to boost rule
By Rahim Faiez — June 30, 2022
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The international cut-off of Afghanistan’s financing has deepened the country’s economic collapse and fueled its humanitarian crises.
Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protection
By Lee Keath — November 16, 2021
The Taliban, Sunni hard-liners who for decades targeted the Hazaras as heretics, are now their only protection against a more brutal enemy: the Islamic State group.
Woman now thought to be Afghanistan’s last Jew flees country
By Ilan Ben Zion and Llazar Semini — October 29, 2021
JERUSALEM (AP) — For years, Zebulon Simentov branded himself as the “last Jew of Afghanistan,” the sole remnant of a centuries-old community. He charged reporters for interviews and held court in Kabul’s only remaining synagogue. He left the country last month for Istanbul after the Taliban seized power. Now it appears he was not the […]
What’s next for the US in Afghanistan? Four essential projects
By Thomas Reese — August 24, 2021
(RNS) — Now that we have lost the war in Afghanistan, there is still unfinished business with which America must deal.
In Afghanistan, we made the same mistakes as in Vietnam
By Thomas Reese — August 17, 2021
(RNS) — I saw this movie in 1975 at the fall of Saigon.
Afghan government collapses, Taliban seize control: 5 essential reads
By Catesby Holmes — August 16, 2021
(The Conversation) — The Taliban ‘expect a complete handover of power.’ Experts explain who the Taliban are, what life is like under their rule and how the US may bear responsibility for Afghanistan’s collapse.
Bomb disrupts funeral for 25 Sikhs killed in Afghan capital
By Tameem Akhgar — March 26, 2020
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan claimed responsibility for the attack on services for those killed in Wednesday's rampage at a Sikh house of worship in Kabul's old city.
Islamic State claims attack on Shiite center, 41 dead
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 28, 2017
(AP) Afghan president Ashraf Ghani called the attack a "crime against humanity."
Islamic State group claims attack that kills dozens at Shiite mosque in Kabul
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 21, 2016
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens on Monday in an explosion at a crowded Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital, officials said. It was the third major attack on minority Shiites in the city since July.
Kabul school of rock gains acceptance among Muslims
By Ruth Owen / USA Today — October 10, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan (RNS) When the Taliban seized control in 1996, most forms of music were banned, but now a number of young Afghans influenced by Western culture are using music to express themselves -- including at the city's first school of rock. By Ruth Owen/USA Today.
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