Fired Prosecutor Assails Justice Dept.’s Pursuit of Trump’s Enemies

The dismissal showed the extent of the fallout from the charges against James B. Comey, damaging a crucial unit to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.

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Internet Blackout in Afghanistan Enters 3rd Day

Banking services have stopped, planes are grounded and aid distribution has been halted. The scope of the blackout is rare, even for a government that has increasingly rolled back freedoms.

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U.S. Officials See Hostage Release as Promising Sign for Deal With Taliban

The path to any agreement is complex for several reasons, including the Taliban’s demand that a man accused of being a Qaeda operative be released from Guantánamo Bay.

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Trump Pardon Ended Probe Into Green Beret’s Killing of Suspected Taliban Bombmaker. Was Justice Served?

The president’s pardon of Mathew Golsteyn cut short an investigation into his killing of a man he believed to be a Taliban bombmaker. Was justice served?

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Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?

In 2012, after a team member was nearly killed, a Special Forces unit went on a rampage that might have been one of the worst war crimes in recent U.S. history.

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Inside the U.S. Special Forces: 5 Takeaways on a Culture of Lawlessness in Afghanistan

Until now, many of the troubling events that took place during the war in Afghanistan have been shrouded in secrecy.

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Afghanistan Has Nationwide Internet Blackout, Monitors Say

The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.”

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Afghanistan Frees a U.S. Citizen Held in Prison

The move comes as the country seeks to break the international isolation it has faced since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

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Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities

More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles.

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Taliban Releases British Couple, Peter and Barbie Reynolds, Detained for Months in Afghanistan

Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 80 and 76, ran a training program in Afghanistan. They chose to remain after the Taliban takeover in 2021.

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