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US official backs Marines' request to classify photos of forces urinating on...
A still from a 2011 video posted online that showed Marines urinating on dead bodies. [Reuters]"In an apparent expansion of the government’s secrecy powers, the top official in charge of the...
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Taliban 25 miles from Kabul
Two days ago, U.S. intelligence sources let it be known that that Afghanistan's government might fall in as soon as 90 days. Today the Taliban are already reportedly nearing the outskirts of Kabul,...
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CNN's Clarissa Ward interviews Taliban in streets of Kabul
The Taliban are in charge of Kabul (Pop. 6 million) and CNN's Clarissa Ward went to the streets to interview them. At one point she was told to step aside because she's a woman. Shortly after that,...
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EA sort of removes 'Taliban' from game, after complaints
At Gamasutra, Ian Bogost takes us through a recent flap over Electronic Arts' forthcoming Medal of Honor game, set in modern Afghanistan. Though similar titles tend to avoid geopolitical specifics,...
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The Taliban bans the video game PUBG for being "too violent"
When someone is oblivious, it can manifest as either a cute character defect or an annoying one. We're all capable of missing the forest for the trees now and then, but if the end result is harmless,...
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In Kabul, store mannequins are hooded, masked, or beheaded
In the countless clothing shops of Kabul, Afghanistan, mannequins are hooded, masked, or entirely beheaded. Shortly after the Taliban swept into power in August 2021, one of the many mandates of the...
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Watch the Oscan-winning short documentary "Learning To Skate In A War Zone...
In 2020, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl), about skateboarding in Afghanistan and produced by Elena Andreicheva and Carol Dysinger, won the Oscar and British Academy of Film and...
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"Danger tourist" who said Brooklyn was more dangerous than Afghanistan...
"Lord" Miles Routledge is a self-proclaimed "danger tourist" — a 20-something Brit who chronicles his travels on YouTube and achieved some viral notoriety for his journey to Afghanistan in 2021. Back...
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Taliban announces it will start stoning women to death in public
The Taliban announced that they are returning to the "good ol' days" when raped women were flogged and stoned to death in public. The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, justified this...
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UK Special Forces veto immigration applications for Afghan troops they fought...
Back in February 2024, the BBC reported that the United Kingdom had rejected resettlement applications for Afghan commandos who fought alongside British soldiers in the fight against the Taliban. From...
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Taliban fires 281 officers because they can't or won't grow beards
Afghanistan's Taliban overlords fired 281 members of the country's security forces because they failed to meet the group's beard mandate. During a press conference in Kabul, Mohibullah Mokhlis, the...
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Taliban bans the sound of womens' voices singing or reading
They fired all the officers who wouldn't grow beards, and now they're banning the sound of women's voices singing or reading, among many other new controls on public life. The Taliban is sinking in....
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Taliban bans all images of living things in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) announced it was forbidding images of any living thing, as reported in The Telegraph. Saiful Islam Khyber of the PVPV...
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