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Violence and Afghan peace talks
Zahid Hussain | Updated at 12:00am on January 21, 2021
THE two women judges shot dead in Kabul last Sunday were the latest victims of the targeted killings that have swept Afghanistan amid the virtually...
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Two female judges of Afghanistan supreme court shot to death
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 12:00pm on January 17, 2021
Gunmen killed two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, as a wave...
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Taliban kill 12 pro-govt militiamen in Afghanistan
Agence France-Presse . Herat | Updated at 10:21pm on January 16, 2021
Two Taliban fighters who had infiltrated a base of pro-government Afghan militiamen killed 12 of them, officials and the insurgent group said Saturday. The night-time...
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Afghanistan traffic authorities retire licence plates with ‘39’
Agence France-Presse . Kabul, Afghanistan | Updated at 04:32pm on January 14, 2021
Afghan traffic authorities are retiring licence plates containing the number "39" because the figure has long been associated with pimping and prostitution...
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Will they ever be over?
Nick Turse | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2021
‘THIS is a different kind of war, which we will wage aggressively and methodically to disrupt and destroy terrorist activity,’ president George W Bush announced...
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Bangladesh slip to 10th place in Test ranking behind Afghanistan
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:10pm on January 06, 2021
Bangladesh slipped to 10th place in Test ranking behind Afghanistan following the latest update by International Cricket Council on Wednesday.New Zealand climbed to the top...
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Gunmen kill Afghan radio journalist in car ambush
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:11pm on January 01, 2021
An Afghan radio journalist was shot dead on Friday in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, officials said, the fifth media worker...
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Two Afghan cops killed in Kabul explosions
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 03:09pm on December 26, 2020
Two Afghan policemen were killed as three ‘sticky bombs’ exploded in Kabul on Saturday, the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital...
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Afghan women’s rights activist shot dead
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:37am on December 25, 2020
Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a women’s rights activist and her brother north of Afghanistan’s capital on Thursday, officials said, as a wave of...
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Afghan reporter shot dead
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:51pm on December 22, 2020
Gunmen murdered an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni on Monday, the third reporter to be killed in the last two months in...