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For his fellow exiles, Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, an 88-year-old star from a golden era, evokes the Afghanistan they left behind, and one that could have been. Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas in the Netherlands in ...

(RNS) — Over the past year, two of the world’s most brutal regimes, Iran and the Afghan Taliban, have illustrated how denying religious freedom and women’s rights go hand-in-insidious-hand. The ...

Millions of Afghan female students have been unable to attend secondary schools and universities for over a year following a ban by the ruling Taliban. The United Nations on Wednesday said Afghanistan ...

To meet an increased demand for food service distribution from their new site at Chullora, PFD Foods recently took delivery of several brand new 14-pallet refrigerated trucks from Scully RSV. The ...

Amanah Nashenas, an Afghan teacher, collects books in a school in Kabul on Thursday. The Taliban has banned women from attending universities. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP) With a single decision, ...

Two days ago the Taliban government in Afghanistan issued an edict banning female students from attending university, expanding on an earlier ban on secondary school for girls. With that, the highest ...

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The Taliban militants and the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces suffered casualties during an attack by the Taliban insurgents on an army base in... Khaama Press was established in 2010. It is one of ...

The Taliban militants and the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces suffered casualties during an attack by the Taliban insurgents on an army base in... Khaama Press was established in 2010. It is one of ...

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