Tag: Taliban
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Taliban confirms release of U.S. citizen in prisoner swap
Afghan authorities on Monday confirmed the swap of a prisoner, U.S civil engineer, in exchange for an Afghan drug lord who was sentenced to a life term in prison by a U.S. court. The U.S. national, Mark Frerichs, disappeared in Afghanistan in 2020.
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Taliban deny their deputy prime minister, Mullah Baradar, is dead
The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul. Sulail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of the Taliban political…
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Taliban clears air on social media ban in Afghanistan
Taliban Spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Tuesday said the Taliban movement had no plans to introduce any restrictions on social media in Afghanistan.
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Taliban calls for peaceful solution of Panjshir standoff
Taliban calls for peaceful solution of Panjshir standoff
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Echoes of Vietnam in the second coming of the Taliban, Dennis Onakinor
In the words of the Spanish-born American scholar, George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And by any stretch of imagination, no group of people in recent memory has failed to remember its past more than the United States of America. Within a span of about five decades, the…
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Several dead in massive explosion outside Kabul Airport
An explosion went off Thursday outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Western nations had warned of a possible attack there in the waning days of a massive airlift. The Pentagon confirmed the blast, with the Taliban saying at least 13 people have…
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Deadly attack on Kabul airport as Taliban reject extended evacuation
An Afghan security officer was killed when members of the Afghan security forces and soldiers from Germany and the U.S. clashed with attackers at the north gate of Kabul airport. Three Afghan personnel were injured in the incident at 6:43 am (0213 GMT) on Monday, the German army tweeted. They were treated by Norwegian paramedics…
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Taliban: Lessons the big countries cannot learn – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa AFGHANISTAN is in chaos. There are videos of Afghans clinging to aircraft taking off and dropping to earth. The dominant media blames the Taliban takeover for the chaos. Not the true story. The chaos has more to do with the Western forces of occupation suddenly fleeing and abandoning the country after a…
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Keeping Afghanistan at bay – Francis Ewherido
BY Francis Ewherido I am not sure which word I became conscious of first, but I suspect “Afghanistan” as a country. In my secondary school days, I studied geography at a point and also followed international affairs. I probably became conscious of “Afghanistanism” (“the practice, as by a journalist, of concentrating on problems in distant…
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Buhari’s handling of security not different from Taliban in Afghanistan – Ortom
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has likened President Muhammadu Buhari’s method of tackling insecurity in Nigeria to that of the Taliban, the terrorist group which recently took over Afghanistan. Governor Ortom made the remark on Friday in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase. The statement was titled, “Presidency turning Nigeria…