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MPs to investigate former defence minister Harjit Sajjan’s use of special forces to rescue Afghan Sikhs
Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, Harjit Sajjan, listens during a funding announcement at Science World, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. As the former defence minister faces questions over his intervention for a group seeking to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021, federal Liberals won't say whether he extended a helping hand to any others. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least six people and injuring 13
Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
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At least 7 civilians killed and 20 others wounded after a minibus exploded in the Afghan capital
Afghan policemen inspect a damaged minibus after a blast in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 19, 2018.REUTERS/Parwiz
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Two years into Taliban rule, Afghan women ask Canada for education and accountability
Afghan girls attend a class in an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Ahead of the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghan women are asking Canadians to join them in protecting gains in girls' education and resisting legitimacy for the terrorist group. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Ebrahim Noroozi
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Three British men being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan
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Suicide bomber kills six people near foreign ministry in Kabul
An ambulance carries victims from near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on March 27, 2023. - A suicide attack on March 27 not far from Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Media watchdog urges release of journalist detained in Kabul
FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter is seen at the Taliban flag-raising ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 31, 2022.REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
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Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul home, police say
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen last night at her house in Kabul on January 15, 2023. - Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the previous Western-backed regime who had turned down the opportunity to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power in August 2021. "Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on January 15. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kabul checkpoint bomb blast kills, wounds several
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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My family escaped hell in Afghanistan. Now, we’re in purgatory
Jawed Haqmal
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Assailants attack hotel in Kabul, Taliban official says
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Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Pakistani embassy in Kabul
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Gun attack targets Pakistan’s envoy in Kabul amid tensions
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Suicide bomber strikes Kabul education centre, killing 19
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Death toll from overnight bombing in Pakistan rises to eight
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Two Russian embassy staff dead, four others killed in suicide bomb blast in Kabul
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U.S. commits to talks on releasing Afghanistan assets despite frustration with Taliban
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Death toll from bombing at Kabul mosque rises to at least 21, police say
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Bombing at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people, including prominent cleric