Tag: Kabul
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Taliban detains professor who protested ban on women’s education
Ismail Mashal was arrested after he tore up his degree certificates on live television to protest the exclusion of women from higher education, according to...
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Explosion outside Kabul’s Afghan Foreign Ministry
There were casualties from the explosion in the Afghan capital, according to police spokesman Khalid Zadran.A senior police official confirmed that there were casualties...
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Dozens feared dead in explosion outside Kabul military airport
A spokesman for the interior ministry controlled by the Taliban says that an explosion outside the airport resulted in numerous casualties.Multiple people have been...
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Kabul blast kills teenagers sitting practice exam
A suicide attack at a tuition centre in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 19 people, most of them female students, police...
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Photos: Poverty pushes Afghan children to work at brick kilns
A recent Save the Children survey says half of Afghanistan’s families have put children to work to keep food on the table.Nabila works 10...
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Taliban break up rare protest by Afghan women in Kabul
Taliban fighters have dispersed dozens of women protesters in Kabul, almost a year after the militant group seized power.About 40 women marched through the...
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Afghanistan: Deadly explosion rocks Sikh site in Kabul
An assault on a Sikh prayer site in Afghanistan has left one worshipper and a Taliban member dead as well as the unidentified attackers.The...
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Death toll in Afghanistan wedding blast rises to 80
The death toll from a suicide bomb attack at a wedding hall in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has risen to 80.The death toll stood at...
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Kabul wedding blast: Groom has ‘lost hope’ after deadly attack
The bridegroom whose wedding was targeted by a suicide bomber in the Afghan capital Kabul says he has "lost hope" after the deadly attack.In...