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The Taliban are sending workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD -- The Taliban are exporting Afghan workers to fill jobs in the Gulf nation of Qatar to ease unemployment in ...
The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
The Taliban say a new labor export program to Qatar will ease unemployment at home. Registration opened on Tuesday for 2,000 ...
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Taliban Ends Chinese Oil Field Contract in Afghanistan
The move to develop the Amu Darya field aligns with the Taliban’s goal of self-sufficiency, but can the cash-strapped regime ...
The Taliban criticize neighboring countries for their mass expulsion of Afghans
A Taliban deputy minister is criticizing other countries for a mass expulsion of Afghans. Iran and Pakistan are expelling ...
The Taliban’s top environment official wants the UN to include Afghanistan in climate talks
The Taliban’s top environment official on Monday called for Afghanistan’s inclusion in U.N. climate talks, saying extreme ...
Female tour guides in Afghanistan lead women-only groups as some travelers return
Afghanistan is seeing the emergence of local female tour guides, in a country whose Taliban government imposes the world’s harshest restrictions on women and girls ...
The Taliban are remaking Afghanistan in their image. It should have us all worried
As the Taliban turn drug rehabilitation centres into makeshift madrasas, Wajed Rohani cautions against the increasing ...
Russia becomes first country to recognise Taliban government of Afghanistan
Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to recognise the Taliban government of the country.
From ‘Sapiens’ to ‘The Book of Mormon’: The banned books the Taliban deems ‘deviant’ and ‘un-Islamic’
Noor Mohammad Saqib, the Taliban’s Minister for Religious Affairs, referencing what he called a “special decree” from ...
Afghanistan’s pioneering female tour guides are opening up the country for tourists
One of those visitors is Australian Suzanne Sandral. She originally wanted to see Afghanistan in the 1960s but the pressures ...
With no access to education beyond the 6th grade, girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools
The country’s Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago — the only country in the ...
UN agency calls for global pause on deportations back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Exclusive: Afghans who worked for the previous Nato-backed administration face beatings, torture and mock executions in ...