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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Afghanistan

The so-called Afghan Liturgical Quire, a codex some believe is the oldest Jewish book in existence. (Museum of the Bible)
September 25, 2024, 7:44 am
Museum of the Bible unveils newly dated ‘oldest Jewish book’
Museum says 5-inch by 5-inch codex, including prayers, poems and Haggadah, is relic from Jewish minority in 8th century Afghanistan
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Afghan burqa-clad women stand in a queue as they wait to receive food being distributed as an aid by the World Food Programme (WFP) organization at Nawabad Kako Sahib area in Baraki Barak district of Logar Province on January 7, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)
January 10, 2024, 11:30 pm
Taliban official says women detained for improper dress amid crackdown in Kabul
Afghan security official claims detainees were only advised ‘to have greater respect and dignity’ and were not ‘disrespected or humiliated’
By AFP
Afghan residents sit at a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan, district of Herat province, on October 7,2023 (Mohsen KARIMI / AFP)
October 8, 2023, 9:57 am
Death toll from western Afghanistan earthquakes rises to over 2,000, Taliban says
Villages destroyed and hundreds of civilians buried under the debris; UN says number of dead expected to rise
By AP
Prof. Ido Didi Fabian performing surgery on a retinoblastoma patient. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
August 21, 2023, 2:06 am
Via modern medical ‘Silk Road,’ Israeli doctors are saving the lives of Afghan kids
Ocular oncologists from Sheba Medical Center work with colleagues in Kabul and Lahore to get children with deadly eye cancer out of Afghanistan for critical treatment in Pakistan
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)
August 15, 2023, 11:16 am
UN: Islamic State still has thousands of fighters across Syria and Iraq
Report from United Nations panel says members of group’s sleeper cells pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today
By Edith M. Lederer
In this photo provided by Rescue 1122 Head Quarters, an ambulance carries injured people after a bomb explosion in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Sunday, July 30, 2023. A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday. (Rescue 1122 Head Quarters via AP)
July 31, 2023, 6:14 am
Suicide bomber at political rally in Pakistan kills at least 44, wounds nearly 200
Attacker strikes gathering of supporters of hard-line cleric and political leader in country’s northwestern Bajur district, which borders Afghanistan
By ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN
Beauticians put makeup on customers at Ms. Sadat's Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 25, 2021. (Rahmat Gul/AP)
July 5, 2023, 12:40 pm
Taliban outlaw women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan
Virtue and Vice Ministry says move is direct order from supreme leader, gives businesses a month to close up
By RIAZAT BUTT
Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, on June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
June 1, 2023, 1:43 pm
Most decorated living Aussie soldier murdered unarmed Afghan civilians, judge finds
Federal court dismisses Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation lawsuit against reporters, ruling allegations of war crimes to be substantially true
By mark baker and Rod McGuirk
File: A Taliban fighter stands guard at the entrance gate of Afghan-Iran border crossing bridge in Zaranj, February 18, 2022. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)
May 27, 2023, 5:43 pm
Iranian and Taliban forces engage in shootout on border over water dispute
Iran says forces responded ‘decisively’ after Taliban fired at police station, doesn’t report casualties; Tehran urges Kabul to uphold 1973 water rights deal
By AFP
Illustrative: A Taliban security officer stands guard as Muslim devotees arrive to offer Eid al-Fitr prayers, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Omar mosque in Kandahar on April 21, 2023. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP)
April 28, 2023, 4:00 pm
Taliban leader says ‘pressure’ won’t work after UN blasts its treatment of women
Unanimous Security Council resolution urges countries ‘to use their influence’ to help reverse restrictive policies in Afghanistan, which the UN has called ‘gender-based apartheid’
By AFP
This image from a video released by the US Department of Defense shows US Marines around the scene at Abbey Gate outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosion. (Department of Defense via AP, File)
April 26, 2023, 8:37 am
Taliban killed mastermind of 2021 Islamic State suicide bombing at Kabul airport: US
Held responsible for suicide blast that killed 13 US troops and 170 Afghans, terrorist was himself killed in a battle early this month in southern Afghanistan
By Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee, AAMER MADHANI and Lolita C. Baldor
A banner with images of women defaced using spray paint, inside a private university after it reopened in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 6, 2023. (Wakil KOHSAR/AFP)
March 6, 2023, 1:16 pm
Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women
Students voice opposition to prohibition Taliban dubiously claims is temporary, as several ultraconservative advisers to country’s leader remain wary of education for women
By Estelle Emonet and Qubad Wali
File: A Save the Children midwife provides Zarmina, 25, who is five months pregnant, with a pre-natal check-up in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, October 2, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)
January 13, 2023, 8:48 pm
Taliban urged to reverse ban on female aid workers, end restrictions on Afghan women
Most of UN Security Council backs statement demanding country’s rulers ensure ‘unhindered access for humanitarian actors regardless of gender’
By Edith M. Lederer
Taliban security forces block a road after a suicide blast near Afghanistan's foreign ministry at the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on January 11, 2023. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
January 11, 2023, 8:55 pm
Five killed, dozens wounded by suicide blast near Afghan foreign ministry
Taliban claims to have improved security since storming back to power in 2021, but there have been scores of attacks, many claimed by local Islamic State chapter
By Estelle Emonet and Aysha Safi
In this file photo from December 12, 2012, Britain's Prince Harry wears his monocle gun sight as he sits in the front seat of his cockpit at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, File)
January 7, 2023, 3:19 am
Taliban rages at Prince Harry for claiming in book to have killed 25 in Afghanistan
British royal also takes flack in UK over revelations in new memoir ‘Spare’ about his military service: ‘Flashman braggadocio’
By AFP
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