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Tag: Kandahar (Afghanistan)

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Internet Shutdowns Hit Parts of Afghanistan

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025Taimoor Shah and Elian PeltierComments Off on 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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Investigating a Monster: What We Found and How We Did It

May 22, 2024May 22, 2024AZAM AHMEDComments Off on Investigating a Monster: What We Found and How We Did It

The end of the war in Afghanistan and the fall of its government allowed us to reach previously inaccessible records, places and people, documenting the bloody history of a key American ally.

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Suicide Bombing Outside Afghan Bank Kills at Least 20

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024Taimoor Shah and Christina GoldbaumComments Off on Suicide Bombing Outside Afghan Bank Kills at Least 20

The blast targeted a bank in Kandahar, where Taliban members had gathered to collect their salaries, witnesses said.

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Your Tuesday Briefing: Europe Nears an Oil Embargo

May 30, 2022May 31, 2022Amelia NierenbergComments Off on Your Tuesday Briefing: Europe Nears an Oil Embargo

The bloc is poised to block the vast majority of Russia’s oil imports.

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A Bomb Crater as Business Partner for a Pit Stop on an Afghan Highway

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yaqoob AkbaryComments Off on A Bomb Crater as Business Partner for a Pit Stop on an Afghan Highway

Along a lonely stretch of what was once the most dangerous road in Afghanistan, everyone slows down when they reach Hafiz Qadim’s mud brick shop. It’s not the food. Or the gas. It’s the big hole.

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Your Wednesday Briefing: E.U. Leaders Visit Kyiv

March 15, 2022Amelia NierenbergComments Off on Your Wednesday Briefing: E.U. Leaders Visit Kyiv

Plus the ripple effects of China’s surge of Covid cases and a once-perilous road in Afghanistan.

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Inside the Fall of Kabul: An On-the-Ground Account

December 10, 2021December 11, 2021NYT > World NewsComments Off on Inside the Fall of Kabul: An On-the-Ground Account

Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

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Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation

December 4, 2021Christina GoldbaumComments Off on Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation

An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country’s population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter. Many are already on the brink of catastrophe.

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In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Taimoor ShahComments Off on In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security

The war’s intense conclusion and a drought combined to wipe out the famous Afghan pomegranate harvest in Kandahar Province, during a devastating national economic crisis.

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The String of ISIS Attacks That Killed Three Generations of One Afghan Family

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021Christina Goldbaum, Yaqoob Akbary and Jim HuylebroekComments Off on The String of ISIS Attacks That Killed Three Generations of One Afghan Family

Over two weeks, the Rajabis suffered loss after loss as suicide attacks on Shiite mosques in two parts of the country ravaged their family.

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