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Former Taliban commander pleads guilty to kidnapping of journalist, killings of US soldiers
Taliban commander accused directing attacks on American and NATO troops has pleaded guilty to charges against him, ...
Rare earth, hard choices: America’s Haqqani gambit in Afghanistan
A realignment inside the Taliban, an unspoken preference for U.S. partnership and a recognition that isolation is a dead end ...
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Russia’s top court lifts terror group designation on Afghanistan’s Taliban
Russia’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two ...
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Russia’s Supreme Court suspends ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban
The group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 is removed from Russia’s list of banned ‘terror’ organisations.
Ex-Taliban commander pleads guilty in killings of US soldiers and kidnapping of journalists
A former Taliban commander has pleaded guilty to providing support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key roles in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a reporter for The New York Times and ...