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Afghan Economy Nears Collapse as Pressure Builds to Ease U.S. Sanctions
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Racing down the cratered highways at dawn, Mohammad Rasool knew his 9-year-old daughter was running out of…
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Where Afghanistan’s New Taliban Leaders Went to School
AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan — The Taliban have seized Afghanistan, and this school couldn’t be prouder. Darul Uloom Haqqania madrasa, one…
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Arts
1,200 Miles From Kabul, a Celebrated Music School Reunites
The plane from Kabul touched down in Qatar around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Two 13-year-old musicians — Zohra and Farida,…
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A Veteran Diplomat, a ‘Tragic Figure,’ Battles Critics in the U.S. and Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — The failure to rescue Afghanistan from the Taliban weighs on many American generals and diplomats. But few had…
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The String of ISIS Attacks That Killed Three Generations of One Afghan Family
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — When Masooma Rajabi saw her relatives flooding into the family’s courtyard, she broke down in sobs. Her…
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Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills and Injures More Than a Dozen
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A blast in a mosque in southern Afghanistan killed and wounded more than a dozen people during…
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E.U. Plans $1.15 Billion in Aid to Stabilize Afghanistan Region
As the Group of 20 held a virtual summit on Afghanistan, the European Union announced Tuesday that it would provide…
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‘I Never Believed That Would Happen’: After 20 Years of War, an Abrupt End
KABUL, Afghanistan — By the time Ghulam Maroof Rashid’s 50th birthday passed, he had spent more than one-third of his…
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Arts
Musicians Flee Afghanistan, Fearing Taliban Rule
More than 100 young artists, teachers and their relatives affiliated with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, a celebrated school…
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Politics
Biden Campaigned as the Anti-Trump. But a Clean Break Is Never Easy.
WASHINGTON — President Biden has been so eager to move past the Trump era that he prefers to call his…
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