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Taliban Free 2 Westerners Working for U.N., Days After Quiet Detention

Taliban Free 2 Westerners Working for U.N., Days After Quiet Detention

ISTANBUL — The Taliban on Friday released two Western citizens and two Afghan colleagues who had been working for the…

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Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress

Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress

KABUL, Afghanistan — Amena, 7 months old, lay silently in her hospital crib amid the mewling of desperately ill infants…

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Afghan Refugees Face Two-Tier System in Europe

Afghan Refugees Face Two-Tier System in Europe

Some of the Afghan women around the table in the neoclassical building in central Athens were making notes in leatherbound…

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More Than a Million Afghans Flee as Economy Collapses

More Than a Million Afghans Flee as Economy Collapses

ZARANJ, Afghanistan — From their hide-out in the desert ravine, the migrants could just make out the white lights of…

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On Patrol: 12 Days With a Taliban Police Unit in Kabul

On Patrol: 12 Days With a Taliban Police Unit in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan — A young Taliban fighter with a pair of handcuffs dangling from his finger warily watched the stream…

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Threatened and Beaten, Afghan Women Defy Taliban With Protests

Threatened and Beaten, Afghan Women Defy Taliban With Protests

KABUL, Afghanistan — On a raw January morning, Khujasta Elham trudged through a snowstorm to sign her name on a…

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