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Taliban school ban leaves Afghan girls in the dark

BBC correspondent Yogita Limaye in Kabul asks the Taliban when girls can go back to school.

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Extremely distressing

Afghan baby girl sold for $500 by starving family

The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan's welfare and public healthcare system depended on foreign aid. This has now been frozen while donor governments argue about whether to recognise the Taliban as the legitimate government.

The US should, to my mind, be taking the lead in trying to help the people who were depending on their protection.

 

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‘Countdown to catastrophe’: half of Afghans face hunger this winter – UN

An economic crisis aggravated by conflict and drought have caused a collapse in food security since the Taliban takeover

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Almost 23 million Afghans will be hungry due to conflict, drought and an economic downturn that is severely affecting livelihoods and people’s access to food as a harsh winter looms, the UN has warned; an increase of nearly 35% compared with last year.

“Afghanistan is now among the world’s worst humanitarian crises – if not the worst – and food security has all but collapsed. This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation,” the World Food Programme’s executive director David Beasley said, adding that “we are on a countdown to catastrophe”.

 

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‘The most difficult journey of my life’: an Afghan family’s escape to the UK

One of just six female judges who have so far managed to reach Britain speaks of fleeing Kabul and finding refuge in Manchester

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ISIS-K, who consider the Taliban too moderate and liberal:


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Can't we just combine ISIS-K with QAnon, like an ISIS-Q?

 

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Can't we just combine ISIS-K with QAnon, like an ISIS-Q?

They'd fight over whether or not it should be ISIS-Q or Q-ISIS.

 

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They'd fight over whether or not it should be ISIS-Q or Q-ISIS.

Then we'd have a real qrisis on our hands...

 

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‘Gunmen killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour’

Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says she won’t stop fighting for dignified care for Afghanistan’s women and girls

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On Tuesday, a senior Pentagon official warned that US intelligence officials believed that Isis-K would have the “capability” to conduct external strikes, including on American soil, within “six or 12 months”. The official added that it would take al-Qaeda between one or two years to reach a similar culpability to do the same.

Attack us with what? ICBMs? Sailing over and shooting? Also, culpability?

 

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Greece lets boat packed with Afghan refugees dock after four days at sea

Vessel allowed to disembark almost 400 people in Aegean port of Kos in ‘unusual and special case’

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First group of LGBT+ Afghans fleeing Taliban arrive in the UK

Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be ‘the first of many’ in coming months

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We either deal with the Taliban or watch Afghans starve to death

In Kabul last month families were selling belongings such as kettles, plates and mattresses on the pavements outside the country’s Olympic headquarters to put f

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‘It’s our lifeline’: the Taliban are back but Afghans say opium is here to stay

Despite talk of a Taliban ban, in Helmand’s poppy fields farmers and traders say they are not the only ones who depend on the drug to survive

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Taliban take control in the last outpost of female freedom

Located in a mountainous corner of northeast Afghanistan, the far-flung district of Wakhan was until this summer one of the few places to avoid ever coming un

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Afghan judges in UK fear for those left behind

The BBC has spoken to female judges who have just arrived in the UK as part of a rescue mission.

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‘A modern-day Schindler’s List’: Afghan junior women footballers land in UK

International rescue effort brings 130 young footballers and their families to London after Taliban takeover

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Afghanistan is on the brink of humanitarian disaster – and the West is culpable

It is not the Taliban but the millions of Afghans facing starvation who will be most hurt by sanctions and the lack of international aid.

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Aid agencies urge West and UN to save Afghanistan amid refugee crisis

Aid agencies are demanding emergency intervention by the United Nations in the crisis in Afghanistan amid fears a new flood of refugees will try to cross into I

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