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People waiting outside of a gate at the Kabul airport.

From Kabul to Virginia: An Afghan family is starting over in America

1:08pm January 25, 2022

by H.J. Mai

In only a matter of days, the lives of an Afghan family changed forever. After the Taliban took control of Kabul, they were forced to start over in a foreign country.

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Special Representative for Afghanistan Nigel Casey, right, shakes hands with Taliban representative Amir Khan Muttaqi, center, ahead of a meeting in Oslo, Norway, Monday.

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Afghanistan's Taliban have started their first talks in Europe since takeover

6:07am January 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

Taliban representatives will be certain to press their demand that nearly $10 billion frozen by the United States be released as Afghanistan faces a precarious humanitarian situation.

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An Afghan girls soccer team rebelled to play the game they love. Now they're refugees

5:07pm January 05, 2022

by Joanna Kakissis

The teenagers on the Afghan girls national soccer team lean on each other as they adjust to a new life in Portugal, where they fled after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

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Dr. Elaha Ibrahimi uses her phone as a flashlight during a power cut inside the hospital in Mirbacha Kot, Afghanistan, in October. Health care workers have continued to work without salaries, without medicine for patients and with frequent power cuts.

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No pay for staff. No patient supplies. No heat. This is health care in Afghanistan

11:29am December 21, 2021

by Susan Brink

When the Taliban took over, predictions were made that the country's health care system would collapse. That's no longer just a forecast, says Dr. Paul Spiegel after his five-week mission there.

Afghan music students, teachers and their families disembark from their flight to Lisbon on Dec. 13. The group of more than 270 evacuees had been staying in Doha, awaiting resettlement in Portugal.

Afghan music students escaped the Taliban and are beginning their new lives abroad

11:21am December 20, 2021

Students and faculty with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music flew last week from Doha to Lisbon, where they will start their new lives and reconstitute their celebrated academy in exile.

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Pakistan is trying to rally Muslim countries to help Afghanistan

4:53am December 18, 2021

by The Associated Press

Pakistan's foreign minister said his message to Sunday meeting is "Please do not abandon Afghanistan. Please engage. We are speaking for the people of Afghanistan."

Taliban political office spokesman Muhammad Naeem Wardak spoke with NPR in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 11.

What the Taliban really want from the world, in their own words

6:28pm December 15, 2021

"We want to prove to everyone forever that we respect humanity," Taliban spokesman Muhammad Naeem Wardak told NPR in Doha, Qatar. He also said women "must have the right to education and to work."

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Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign minister in Afghanistan's new Taliban-run Cabinet, speaks at a September 2021 news conference in Kabul.

Taliban seek ties with U.S. and other ex-foes, Afghan foreign minister says

5:13am December 13, 2021

by The Associated Press

Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the Taliban have changed since they last ruled. He says they have no issue with the United States.

A nurse in the burn unit of the hospital in Afghanistan's Herat province prepares a topical ointment used to treat and prevent infections in burn patients.

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A surgeon who helps burned Afghan women is now in hiding, afraid for her life

7:56am November 13, 2021

by Ruchi Kumar

The doctor specializes in treating women attacked by a spouse or who self-immolate in desperation. Now she faces threats from Taliban commanders and the husbands of those she's helped.

A Wakhi man looks out at the mountains in the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan. Uyghurs leaving China have trekked through the region. Now many Uyghurs in Afghanistan fear the Taliban could deport them to China.

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Afghan Uyghurs whose families fled China now fear the Taliban could deport them

2:35pm October 15, 2021

by Emily Feng

Many Uyghurs living in Afghanistan want to leave now that the Taliban are back in control. They fear that the Chinese government could push the Taliban to deport them to China.