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[Link] Maya Assad's family has been stateless for generations, but that could soon change
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
For more than a year the engineer and her businessman husband had been jobless, as the economy in the country in which she was born and raised, Lebanon, imploded.
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[Link] National Geographic green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ evacuated to Italy
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the west’s evacuation of Afghans after the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said on Thursday.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.
Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours gather in Tehran to discuss its future
Read: 4/11/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Iran says the main goal of the event is to emphasise the call for the formation of an ‘inclusive’ government in Afghanistan.
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[Link] Afghan refugee stabbed to death in London in front of schoolchildren
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A teenage Afghan refugee was stabbed to death on a sports field in south-west London in front of schoolchildren playing rugby.The victim, named by the Evening Standard as 18-year-old Hazrat Wali, was attacked at about 4.
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[Link] With just two ways to flee Afghanistan, this is what it's like at one exit
Read: 16/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
As Rohulla Sediqi and his wife and son emerged from a tunnel and squinted into the sun, they felt the tension slightly lift from their shoulders for the first time in a month.
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[Link] Does the fall of Kabul increase the terror threat to the west?
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
In three days in earlier this month Islamist militants killed more than 120 civilians in a series of attacks in the Sahel, a belt of increasingly anarchic and violent territory across Africa, where such groups have gone from strength to strength in recent years.
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[Link] Women can continue working in Afghan government, say Taliban
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Women can continue to work in government in Afghanistan but are not guaranteed cabinet or other senior positions, a Taliban spokesman has said.
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[Link] Mexico Embraces Afghan Refugees As Its Soldiers Beat Asylum Seekers Traveling by Caravan
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — In southern Mexico, a Central American migrant crumpled to the ground as a senior official with the national immigration agency stomped on the man’s face wearing a military-style boot.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours offered millions in aid to harbour refugees
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Countries neighbouring Afghanistan have been offered millions in aid if they are prepared to temporarily harbour tens of thousands of refugees, prior to security checks clearing them for transit to Europe and the US, but Pakistan and other bordering states have warned they will not take more refugee
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[Link] ‘Unprecedented’ numbers crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
An “unprecedented” number of people are travelling from Afghanistan to Pakistan through the official border crossing, according to local officials, as the carnage in Kabul after the airport suicide attack has driven more to try to flee the country.
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[Link] Who is ISIS-K, the Islamic State offshoot in Afghanistan that has the Taliban worried?
Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deadly explosions have rocked the edge Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport overnight killing and injuring locals wanting to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover, as well as US military personnel trying to help the evacuation effort.
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[Link] Nosedive in UK-US relations is another casualty of Afghanistan’s fall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
So much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relations.
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[Link] Monsters, Inc: The Taliban as Empire’s bogeyman
Read: 22/8/2021 www.aljazeera.com
The dominant narrative on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan erases the decades of imperial violence Afghans suffered.
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[Link] Australian military rescue mission to Afghanistan launched
Read: 18/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An urgent and dangerous Defence Force mission to evacuate Australians and Afghans from Kabul’s besieged international airport has begun, with an RAAF transport aircraft flying out of the capital this morning.
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[Link] U.S. Government Politely Asks for Volunteers To Help Process Afghan Refugees
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
As shocking images of Afghans desperately clinging to airplanes destined for the U.S. and other allied countries played out on cable news, the Biden administration was scrambling to figure out what to do with the thousands of refugees expecting to come stateside.
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[Link] Expected Afghan influx reopens divisions over refugees in Europe
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The fall of Kabul has reopened divisions over immigration in European countries as government leaders brace themselves for an inevitable surge in refugees.
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[Link] Coalition accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has been accused of waiting far too long to organise a military evacuation mission to Afghanistan, as it sends 250 defence force personnel to the region in a last-ditch bid to help people flee the Taliban.
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[Link] This Taliban directive is a stark warning of what lies ahead for Afghan women and girls
Read: 16/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Since the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in July, the Taliban have swiftly taken control of large parts of the country. The president has fled and the government has fallen.
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[Link] Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apermanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade – has been threatened with having his visa cancelled, and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.
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[Link] Afghan Interpreters Escaping the Taliban Are Being Flown to Canada
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Flights carrying Afghani interpreters and support staff who helped the U.S. and Canadian militaries during the Afghanistan War touched down in North America over the past week, as a new Taliban offensive surges across the country.
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[Link] Home affairs minister ordered into mediation with Afghan refugee detained in Australia
Read: 4/8/2021 theguardian.com
The Australian home affairs minister has been ordered into mediation with an Afghan refugee who assisted coalition forces during the Afghanistan conflict and remains in detention in Australia after eight years.
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