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Category Archives: KATHY GANNON
{FD} Facebook picture helps Afghan woman achieve dream of college
With three children under the age of five and a husband who could neither read nor write, 25-year-old Jahantap Ahmadi dreamed of going to college.
{FD} Militant leader, bin Laden ally roams freely in Pakistan
He is crisscrossing Pakistan championing a fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, forbidding militant violence inside the country.
{FD} A bold Afghan peace offer, but are the Taliban interested?
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has put a peace offer on the table, and analysts say the ball is now in the Taliban’s court.
{FD} Pakistan under pressure to rein in blasphemy law
One of the most frightening things about Pakistan’s blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death penalty.
{FD} Afghans submitted 1.17 million war crimes claims to court
Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, it has gotten a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims.
{FD} Court received 1.17 million war crimes claims from Afghans
Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, it has gotten a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims.
{FD} Afghan officials and Taliban talk despite wave of violence
Afghan officials are carrying out at least two tracks of talks with the Taliban, The Associated Press has learned, even after a month of brutal bombings and attacks by the militants that killed nearly 200 and despite President Donald Trump’s angry rejection of any negotiations for now.
{FD} Militant hideout found in Afghan capital shows security woes
The discovery of an Islamic State hideout filled with explosives and suicide vests in a poor Kabul neighborhood reflects the failure of Afghanistan’s corruption-wracked government to protect the capital, analysts and residents said Friday.
{FD} Afghan forces uncover IS hideout house in Kabul district
Afghan security forces have uncovered an Islamic State hideout this week in a poor western neighborhood of the capital, Kabul.