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Deaths from Islamic State bombing at Islamist rally in Pakistan rise to 63 after more wounded people die
Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim killed in Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. Pakistan held funerals on Monday for victims of a massive suicide bombing that targeted a rally of a pro-Taliban cleric the previous day. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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The Taliban’s ban on hair and beauty salons won’t just hurt Afghanistan’s women
Ruchi Kumar
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Islamic State claims responsibility for bombing that killed 54 at a pro-Taliban election rally
Relatives and mourners attend the funeral prayer of victims who were killed in Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. Pakistan held funerals on Monday for victims of a massive suicide bombing that targeted a rally of a pro-Taliban cleric the previous day. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Suicide bomber at political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 44 people, wounds nearly 200
Haji Ghulam Ali (2nd R), governor of KP province greets an injured man in a hospital in Peshawar on July 30, 2023, after at least 44 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan. The blast targeted the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party -- a government coalition partner led by an influential firebrand cleric -- as hundreds of supporters congregated under a canopy in the town of Khar, near the Afghan border. (Photo by Abdul Majeed AFP photographer / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED AFP PHOTOGRAPHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taliban bans beauty salons in Afghanistan despite UN concern and rare public protest
FILE- Beauticians put makeup on customers at Ms. Sadat's Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2021. The one-month dateline given to women beauty salons ban in Afghanistan ended Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Taliban say that beauty salons must stop their activities otherwise their licenses will be cancelled. Sadiq Akif Mahjer, the spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry says Tuesday that if they do not obey the orders of the ministry, their licenses will be cancelled by the municipality. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
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After escaping the Taliban, hundreds of Afghans are still in Albania
Afghan men walk at a tourist resort where they are accommodated, in Shengjin, 70 kilometer (44 mile) northwest of the capital, Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Hundreds of Afghans are languishing in Albania, waiting for the U.S. visas they were promised, almost two years after fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country. For many, it's an emotional roller coaster. (AP Photo/Llazar Semini)
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Sixty Afghan girls hospitalized after school poisoning, police say
FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter is seen at the Taliban flag-raising ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 31, 2022.REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
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Qatar prime minister, Taliban chief hold secret Afghan talks, source says
FILE PHOTO: Qatar's then deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Washington, U.S. February 10, 2023. Kevin Wolf/Pool via REUTERS
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Canadian Afghan advisers take government to court over alleged discrimination
Storm clouds pass by the Peace Tower and Parliament Hill Tuesday August 18, 2020 in Ottawa.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Iran and Taliban exchange gunfire at Afghan border, escalating tensions over water rights
This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)
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Rights groups slam severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as ‘crime against humanity’
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Two top international rights groups on Friday, May 26, slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying they amount to the “crime against humanity of gender persecution.” (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
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The Taliban is preventing Afghanistan’s men from standing up for its women
Ruchi Kumar
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Terrified of the Taliban, families of Canada’s Afghan advisers plead for help
Canadian soldiers stand beside a canal near the village of Charbagh on the outskirts of Kandahar in this Oct. 3, 2009 photo. Canadians who served in Afghanistan say many of their Afghan family members don't qualify to come to Canada, even though their lives are at risk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland
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UN urges Afghanistan’s Taliban to reverse bans on women
A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport
FILE - A carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, on Aug. 29, 2021, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Hoover died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other U.S. service members. The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 service members and about 170 Afghans. That is according to the father of a Marine killed in the attack who was briefed on April 25, 2023, by military officials. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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UN asks Afghan staff to stay home until May after Taliban bars women from working
FILE - The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. The U.N. said Wednesday, April 5, 2023, that it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan female staffers from working at the agency, calling it an “unparalleled” violation of women's rights. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Biden’s Afghanistan report mostly blames Trump for chaotic U.S. withdrawal
Families begin to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Samuel Ruiz/Handout via REUTERS.
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Gunmen kill two police in northwest Pakistan
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
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Three British men being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan
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