A suicide blast rocked Afghanistan’s capital city on Saturday during a gun battle with security forces, officials said, killing at least two people a day after hopes for all-encompassing peace talks collapsed. At least six people were wounded. (April 20)
Welcome to the Mobile Mini Circus for Children in Afghanistan! It’s an oasis of joy and creativity amid poverty and never-ending war. Here, Afghan children have the opportunity not just to learn acrobatics or juggling, but to develop trust and communication skills. Discover another Afghanistan with RTD, as we follow the troupe and hear from kids about their unusual hobby and hopes for the future.
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Fawzia Koofi was hesitant to face the Taliban militants who jailed her husband, threatened to stone her for wearing nail polish, and — when she became a high-profile MP and women’s rights champion — tried to assassinate her. But the politician and mother of two daughters could not refuse a rare invitation to travel to Moscow earlier this month and stand before her oppressors to declare that Taliban misogyny and prejudice would never again take root in Afghanistan.
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A new UN report says that 2018 was the deadliest year in a decade for civilians in Afghanistan. Some 4,000 were killed. The report says increased terrorist activity, as well as Afghan and US military operations, are to blame for the spike in civilian fatalities. Meanwhile, a fifth round of peace talks between the Taliban and the US is being held in Qatar on Monday. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9p0s
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Patients from a packed Kabul hospital recall how they got injured as according to a UN report, more civilians are killed in the Afghan war in 2018 than during any other year on record after nearly two decades of fighting.
Thirty years on, former mujahideen fighters recount the days of battling the Red Army in Afghanistan after the Soviet Union invaded the country in December 1979. The Soviets left the country for good on February 15, 1989 having suffered 15,000 losses — many in the unforgiving mountain passes of Panjshir.
Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with US commanders and Afghan leaders amid a push for peace with the Taliban. (Feb. 11)
