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Afghan Women Banned From Medical Training Amid Worsening Health Crisis
Teenage girls have been unable to access education since 2021 despite the Taliban promising they would restart their education once the curriculum has been ensured as "Islamic".
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Four Teenage Migrants Critical After Being Shot In Brawl In France
Four teenaged migrants were in critical condition Thursday after being shot during a huge brawl in the French port of Calais involving a hundred Afghans and Eritreans armed with sticks and stones, local authorities said.
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Doubt Cast On German Train Attacker's Nationality
German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying he might have been from Pakistan.
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Afghan Teenager Braves Threats, Family Pressure To Lead Women's Orchestra
Like many teenagers, 19-year-old Negin Khpalwak from Kunar in eastern Afghanistan loves music, but few people of her age have battled as fiercely to pursue their passion in the face of family hostility and threats.
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'Instant Paradise': An Afghan Child Bomber's Journey
At first glance Mohibullah looks an ordinary Afghan teenager, wide-eyed with a tender smile, a little peach fuzz and a boyish dream of becoming a kick boxer. But this 15-year-old is languishing in prison -- jailed after the Taliban preyed on him to become a suicide bomber.
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Afghanistan Leans on 'Abusive' Local Police as Taliban Advance
A peach-fuzzed teenager clad in camouflage fatigues, Mohammad Jawad could be mistaken for a boy scout - but he commands one of hundreds of Afghanistan's local anti-Taliban police units, accused of stoking insecurity.
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Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier
Senior US military officials say an Afghan teenager has killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck.
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Afghan teenage girl flogged for 'affair': Officials
A 16-year-old Afghan girl has been flogged for allegedly having an affair and her purported boyfriend fined $1,600 in a rural district under government control, local officials said Saturday.
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Afghan sisters shot dead for running away from home
An Afghan man shot his two teenaged daughters dead when they returned home four days after running away with a young man, Daily Mail reported on Monday. The father has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in Helmand province, a hotbed of Taliban insurgency, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said.
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Teenage Taliban bomber kills 24 in Pakistan
A teenage suicide bomber targeted police in a bustling Pakistan town square on Friday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens in the tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.
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Teenage girl from Afghanistan to box at Olympics
Besides going after a medal in the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be taking a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women.
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New video shows Taliban flogging men in Pakistan
Taliban militants flog two men and a teenage boy in a video that has emerged from Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border.
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Afghan Women Banned From Medical Training Amid Worsening Health Crisis
Teenage girls have been unable to access education since 2021 despite the Taliban promising they would restart their education once the curriculum has been ensured as "Islamic".
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Four Teenage Migrants Critical After Being Shot In Brawl In France
Four teenaged migrants were in critical condition Thursday after being shot during a huge brawl in the French port of Calais involving a hundred Afghans and Eritreans armed with sticks and stones, local authorities said.
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Doubt Cast On German Train Attacker's Nationality
German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying he might have been from Pakistan.
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Afghan Teenager Braves Threats, Family Pressure To Lead Women's Orchestra
Like many teenagers, 19-year-old Negin Khpalwak from Kunar in eastern Afghanistan loves music, but few people of her age have battled as fiercely to pursue their passion in the face of family hostility and threats.
-
'Instant Paradise': An Afghan Child Bomber's Journey
At first glance Mohibullah looks an ordinary Afghan teenager, wide-eyed with a tender smile, a little peach fuzz and a boyish dream of becoming a kick boxer. But this 15-year-old is languishing in prison -- jailed after the Taliban preyed on him to become a suicide bomber.
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Afghanistan Leans on 'Abusive' Local Police as Taliban Advance
A peach-fuzzed teenager clad in camouflage fatigues, Mohammad Jawad could be mistaken for a boy scout - but he commands one of hundreds of Afghanistan's local anti-Taliban police units, accused of stoking insecurity.
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Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier
Senior US military officials say an Afghan teenager has killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck.
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Afghan teenage girl flogged for 'affair': Officials
A 16-year-old Afghan girl has been flogged for allegedly having an affair and her purported boyfriend fined $1,600 in a rural district under government control, local officials said Saturday.
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Afghan sisters shot dead for running away from home
An Afghan man shot his two teenaged daughters dead when they returned home four days after running away with a young man, Daily Mail reported on Monday. The father has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in Helmand province, a hotbed of Taliban insurgency, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said.
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Teenage Taliban bomber kills 24 in Pakistan
A teenage suicide bomber targeted police in a bustling Pakistan town square on Friday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens in the tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.
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Teenage girl from Afghanistan to box at Olympics
Besides going after a medal in the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be taking a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women.
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New video shows Taliban flogging men in Pakistan
Taliban militants flog two men and a teenage boy in a video that has emerged from Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border.
