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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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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Taliban Rebuffs Trump’s Effort to Regain Air Base in Afghanistan

An Afghan official rejected the idea of a renewed presence for the U.S. military in the country, but left the door open for “political and economic relations.”

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Internet Shutdowns Hit Parts of Afghanistan

Some provincial officials said the country’s leader instructed them to switch off Wi-Fi in their area to limit the “misuse of the internet” and diffusion of “immoral acts.”

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After Afghanistan Earthquake, Women Tell of Being Shunned by Male Rescuers

A prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped under rubble after a deadly earthquake, witnesses said.

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After Deadly Earthquake in Afghanistan, Emergency Aid Trickles In

Villages remain cut off in the remote, mountainous areas in the east that have been hardest hit by the disaster, which has killed at least 1,400 people.

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