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Past articles by Kathy:

Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. → Read More

Taliban divisions deepen as Afghan women defy veil edict

A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many Afghans angry or fearful → Read More

Powerful explosion at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding as many as 30, a Taliban spokesman said. → Read More

Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school → Read More

Death toll in Afghan mosque, school bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted news of the devastating bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, saying it also wounded another 43 people, many of them students. → Read More

Death toll in Afghan mosque, school bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted news of the devastating bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, saying it also wounded another 43 people, many of them students. → Read More

Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

Friday's bombing is the latest in a series of deadly attacks across Afghanistan. Nobody has claimed responsibility for this bombing. → Read More

Pakistani lawmakers elect Shahbaz Sharif as new premier

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s parliament elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister on Monday, after a walkout by lawmakers from ousted Premier Imran Khan’s party.Sharif was the only contender. → Read More

Pakistan's embattled PM ousted in no-confidence vote

Pakistan’s political opposition has toppled Prime Minister Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote in Parliament after several political allies and a key party in his ruling coalition deserted him → Read More

Pakistan's embattled PM ousted in no-confidence vote

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s political opposition toppled Prime Minister Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote in Parliament early Sunday after several political allies and a key party in his ruling coalition deserted him. → Read More

Afghanistan's Taliban announce ban on poppy production

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on poppy production, even as farmers across the country began harvesting the bright red flower that produces the opium used to make heroin → Read More

UN seeks record $4.4B for Afghans struggling under Taliban

GENEVA (AP) — The U. N. ’s aid coordination agency is launching its biggest-ever appeal for funds for a single country in hopes of collecting $4. 4 billion to help Afghanistan. The decidedly ambitious call to assist the impoverished country again run by Taliban militants comes as much of the world is focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Afghanistan is buckling under a debilitating humanitarian… → Read More

Many baffled by Taliban reneging pledge on girls' education

The move may have been designed to appease the Taliban’s hard-line base but it came at the expense of further alienating the international community. → Read More

Taliban reverses pledge, delays girls' education above 6th grade

The decision is likely to disrupt Taliban efforts to win recognition from potential international donors amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. → Read More

UN refugee chief in Kabul to say Afghans are not forgotten

The head of the U.N. refugee agency is in Kabul to tell Afghans they have not been forgotten — even as the international community scrambles to deal with the devastation of the war in Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis unseen in Europe since World War II → Read More

Six months of Taliban: Afghans safer, poorer, less hopeful

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule → Read More

Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's former president on Sunday called a White House order to unfreeze $3. 5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U. S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people. Former President Hamid Karzai at a packed news conference sought the help of Americans, particularly the families of the thousands killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to… → Read More

Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity

Afghanistan’s former president has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people → Read More

Afghans protest US order to give $3.5B to 9/11 victims

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital have condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims → Read More

Biden frees frozen Afghan billions for relief, 9/11 victims

President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the U.S. banking system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. → Read More