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While not topping any lists for great presidents, Carter has long championed causes that have never been more relevant, from peace in the Middle East to climate change.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023.
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The Taliban have enacted laws that violate human rights since they returned to power. But a new edict goes further.
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The Taliban says the suspension is temporary and the result of security fears.
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Afghan women are turning to social media, singing in protest against new Taliban laws banning their voices in public. They sing to prove they still exist.
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Three years ago the Taliban promised it had changed. It is now clear that it hasn’t.
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The Taliban’s 2.0 government has proven to be as dreadfully extremist and discriminatory as its previous reign of terror.
Evacuees from Afghanistan wait to fly to the U.S. at a German air base on Sept. 1, 2021.
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Attempts to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act have faltered, leaving tens of thousands of Afghans who fled chaos during the fall of Kabul in limbo.
Afghan women demand the right to education during a protest in Mazar-i-Sharif in 2023.
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Codifying apartheid could offer significant relief to many victims and survivors who otherwise would not be entitled to adequate recourse from the international community.
Afghan girl, Herat, Afghanistan, October 2023.
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The Afghans is powerful account of the rise of the Taliban, told through the lives of three very different people.
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It’s a fairytale ride for Afghanistan’s talented cricketers. But women remain excluded.
The national flags of some NATO countries fly during an Air Force exercise in Germany on June 11, 2024.
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NATO’s treaty has loopholes that give member countries, including the US, power over whether or not they want to intervene in a particular conflict.
The Mausoleum of Ali, which is located in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, is a site of cultural significance for Khorasan.
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Khorasan is globally associated with terrorism, but people from Afghanistan are out to challenge that assumption.
Fighting between the army and paramilitaries has seen Sudan descend into civil war.
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With both sides in Sudan’s civil war accused of recruiting Islamist militiamen, terrorist groups look set to capitalize on a power vacuum.
The men’s dormitory at a new center for asylum-seekers in Portland, Maine.
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People who enter the US as refugees or with asylum generally adapt quickly and become productive members of society. But cities need help getting them settled and employed.
The Taliban are in talks with Russia over improved co-operation.
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The Taliban is likely to be hoping for economic and political benefits from an improved relationship with Russia.
Education for girls in Afghanistan is banned after the sixth grade.
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If the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan persists, consequences could include higher rates of abuse, the spread of extremism and billions of dollars in economic loss.
More than 140 people died in the Crocus City Hall assualt in Moscow on March 22, 2023.
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A spate of terror operations carried out by the Islamic State group affiliate has raised concerns over a potential attack on US soil.
The praying hall in Bukhara Synagogue, in the Uzbek capital.
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A hidden history of connection and commerce between Britain, Afghanistan, and central Asia serves as a reminder of the possibility of inter-religious co-existence in even the most fraught of times.
The aftermath of the concert hall attack in Moscow on March 23, 2024.
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At least 137 people were killed in the Moscow attack – the latest in a a series of ISIS-K operations outside its traditional stronghold.
Donald Trump hugs and kisses the American flag as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., in February 2024.
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A second Donald Trump presidency would not necessarily implement a foreign policy any more destructive than what is normal for the United States.