Afghanistan
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Fellow Unit Member Says Alleged D.C. Shooter Felt Abandoned by CIA
The Afghan who served in a U.S.-backed Zero Unit struggled with apparent mental health issues after migrating to America in 2021
- ‘Stress and Fear’
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The Taliban Drove This Afghan Trumpeter Into Exile. He Still Dreams of Home
Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power in 2021. He’s part of a generation of refugees the world has largely forgotten
- Kabul Memories
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Inside the CIA’s Secret Afghan Army
The Zero Units served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate. Now, they face uncertainty as they begin their new lives in the United States
- Starting Over
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Here’s What Trump’s Mexico Invasion Plan Could Look Like
As Trump and his incoming administration threaten Mexican drug cartels, experts warn their plan could create more violence and put Americans in danger
- ‘Iraq All Over Again’
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Pete Hegseth Is the Pentagon’s Reckoning
After 20 years of failure in the War on Terror, why would anyone be surprised that an anti-establishment extremist is set to seize the reins of the military?
- Commentary
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Inside Afghan Women’s Fight to Compete at the Olympics
Afghan athlete and IOC member Samira Asghari explains how female competitors skirted Taliban restrictions to make it to Paris — and why women’s sports must be restored in Afghanistan
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‘Fremont’ Is the Best Kind of Indie-Movie Throwback
A deadpan look at diaspora life in America, this tale of an Afghan immigrant feels like it could have been plucked out of the early Nineties
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A Rare, Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Taliban — and Their U.S. Weapons
Hollywoodgate, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is a curious doc with unusual access to the Taliban after America’s Afghanistan withdrawal
- VENICE MOVIE REVIEW
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The Afghanistan Girls Soccer Team’s Daring Escape From the Taliban
Marie Margolius writes about her doc Ayenda, about how the Under-18 Afghan National Women’s Football Team fled Kabul after it fell to the Taliban
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Rebel, Kingmaker, and Accused War Criminal: The Last Confessions of an Afghan Warlord
Abdul Rashid Dostum has dodged assassin's bullets and survived poisoning. Now from exile, he plots his revenge against the Taliban, rages about the failures of the war and for the first time addresses the charge that he ordered brutal crimes
- The Godfather
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