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Afghan Taliban announce death of Haqqani network founder

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Sep 2018

Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA asset and received a personal visit from US congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped secure arms for the mujahideen

‘We are in danger’: French Army translators live in fear of the Taliban

Article bogdan TagDiv - 29 Nov 2017

The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already

South Africans in the crossfire: Why I won’t leave Kabul

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Dec 2014

South African Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban, but the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.

South African pastor killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 Nov 2014

A South African pastor and his two teenage children are the latest casualties of a spate of attacks by the Taliban across Afghanistan.

South Africans killed in attack on Kabul compound

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 Nov 2014

The South African head of an organisation, his son and daughter, and one Afghan were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound for foreigners in Kabul.

Kabul prison filled with women accused of ‘moral crimes’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 Apr 2013

More than two-thirds of the inmates at the Badam Bagh prison are serving sentences for leaving their husbands or refusing arranged marriages.

Afghanistan claims control of Kabul after Taliban attacks

Article bogdan TagDiv - 16 Apr 2012

Afghanistan says its regained control of Kabul, killing all the Taliban militants who launched one of the biggest attacks on the city in a decade.

Embassy in Greece for Afghan asylum seekers

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jan 2012

Afghanistan will open an embassy in Greece to help thousands of Afghan asylum seekers stranded while seeking a better life in Europe.

Government report exposes Bagram Prison torture

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Jan 2012

Inmates in Afghanistan's US-run Bagram Prison have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, according to a government report.

Kabul suicide bomb kills 13 US troops

Article bogdan TagDiv - 29 Oct 2011

A car bomber killed 13 American troops in Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack against the Nato-led force in 10 years of war.

British teachers caught up in Kabul attack

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Aug 2011

The UK's PM says a "cowardly" attack on a British cultural centre in Kabul on Friday will not stop the country's "vital work" in Afghanistan.

Doubts begin to cloud Afghan transition

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 Jun 2011

Worrying questions hang over a plan to start switching from Nato to local control in Afghanistan, just weeks before the process is due to start.

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