After a harrowing escape from the Taliban, Afghanistan’s female politicians are regrouping in Greece to fight for their country. Amie Ferris-Rotman reports on the work of the Afghan women’s parliament in exile
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Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and later building a life in Ukraine, Ruhullah Haji has been displaced by war twice in 34 anni. So when the heart surgeon made it to Britain after fleeing Russia’s invasion, he was despera...
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Two decades ago, photographs of blue burqas became perhaps the totemic image of life under the Taliban, as Afghan women’s rights were invoked and exploited to justify the country’s invasion. Di sabato, the Taliban o...
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It’s an overcast Sunday afternoon at Ron Barassi Snr Reserve, a small community ground tucked away in Melbourne’s Docklands. On its lone pitch, two teams of women are approaching the 20th minute of their Victorian Wom...
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A former SAS patrol commander has told the federal court that no people were found hiding inside a tunnel during a 2009 SAS raid on an Afghan compound called Whiskey 108, contrary to evidence previously given by sever...
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I read your feature with great interest (Welcome to Britain … now what? Afghan families on their lives in limbo, 26 marzo). My family met, and have subsequently become friends with, an Afghan family airlifted to Brita...
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A family in hiding in Afghanistan who are eligible for sanctuary in the UK but are unable to escape because they can’t get biometrics done in their home country have taken their case to the high court. The case highli...
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A former Australian soldier has objected on the grounds of self-incrimination to answer questions about whether he shot a prisoner on the orders of his patrol commander, Ben Roberts-Smith, in Afghanistan in 2012. Fede...
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Women and girls staged a protest near the Taliban’s Ministry of Education in Kabul on Saturday, calling on the group to reopen girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan. The protesters chanted, “Education is our right –...
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