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PublishedNovember 4, 2024
Afghan sisters offer traditional homeland fare at Lewiston restaurant
Nelofar and Shaqaeq Ahmadi run Royal Chicken and Kabab at 259 Lisbon Street months after their arrival in Maine.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2024
As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner
New laws mandate that men wear a fist-long beard, bar them from imitating non-Muslims in appearance or behavior, and ban haircuts that are against Islamic law.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2024
Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair
The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public, and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2024
Congress bestows its highest honor on 13 troops killed in Afghanistan withdrawal
Rather than a unifying moment, the event took place against the backdrop of a bitter, partisan back-and-forth over who is to blame for the rushed and deadly evacuation from Kabul.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2024
Trump issues statement from Gold Star families defending Arlington visit
Vice President Kamala Harris has accused Trump of staging a 'political stunt' that 'disrespected sacred ground.'
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2024
Two decades in Afghanistan, written with the intimacy of a novel
'Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation,' by Sune Engel Rasmussen, is told through the perspectives of 'ordinary' Afghans, looking outward from a broken country.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2024
Trump ties Harris to chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal on anniversary of attack
Monday marks 3 years since the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2024
Taliban place bans on women’s bare faces, sound of their voices in public
The vice and virtue laws issued Wednesday empower the ministry to be at the frontline of regulating personal conduct, administering punishments like warnings or arrest.
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PublishedJune 10, 2024
Afghanistan rescue dogs settle in to life in Maine after 7,000-mile journey
Thirteen dogs from Kabul arrived in Woolwich, where they now seek forever homes. Though the 7,000-mile journey was far from easy, volunteers deem the effort "a championing success."
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PublishedMay 19, 2024
Heavy rains set off flash floods in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 84 people
Esmatullah Moradi, spokesman for the provincial governor in Faryab said that around 1,500 houses were either completely or partially destroyed while hundreds of acres of farmlands were washed away and more than 300 animals killed.
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