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Taliban government hopes its Wakhan Corridor road will open new trade routes and reduce reliance on Pakistan.
He is the most powerful ruler ever – and his first biographer was crucified. What drew Edmund Richardson, winner of the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize, to his short tumultuous life?
KABUL, Oct 30: Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan more than quadrupled in 2026 despite a Taliban government ban, the United Nations said Thursday, urging that impoverished farmers needed altern...
When Basir Arian was summoned to the Taliban headquarters, he knew he had to go. To defy them meant death. The torture left him devastated and sure he had to leave the country
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Meanwhile in Asia explains why Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting across their rugged border. The Pakistani government has accused the Afghan Taliban of harboring the Pakistani Taliban, which has carried out terror attacks in the country.