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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
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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
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Twitter Beats Out Threads for Coveted Taliban Leader Endorsement
The fundamentalist group thinks Meta’s content policy, which includes a ban on support or praise for terrorist or hate groups, is “intolerant”
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Senators Demand Answers on ‘American Taliban’ Meeting With ISIS Supporter
Sens. Maggie Hassan and Katie Britt are asking the Justice Department how two convicted terrorists managed to meet up while out on parole and under FBI surveillance
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Prince Harry Tells Colbert He Wrote About Killing 25 People to ‘Reduce’ Suicides
The Duke of Sussex opened up on The Late Show about why he shared details of killing 25 Afghan insurgents in his memoir ‘Spare’
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Florida Candidate Compares Democrats to Taliban, Al Qaeda In Campaign Ad
Cory Mills, the guy who threatened to tear gas the media, is back with a new ad comparing mid-pandemic mask requirements to living in an oppressive theocracy
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America Can't Stop Screwing Over the Afghan People
The Biden administration said on Friday that it's giving half of the frozen $7 billion in funds belonging to the Afghan people to families of 9/11 victims
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