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    TOPSHOT - Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman (R) walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province on February 26, 2024. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

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    For Subscribers Five years after the Taliban won, Afghanistan is still losing

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  • Police officials inspect the site following a suicide bombing during a protest in Pakistan's Swat district on August 2, 2026.

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  • Former Australian Defence Force soldier Ben Roberts-Smith walks during a break outside the Federal Court of Australia, in Sydney, Australia, May 1, 2025.

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    Former Australian soldier speaks out against allegations of Afghan war crimes

  • Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney, Australia on June 9, 2021. Ben Roberts-Smith is suing three Fairfax newspapers for defamation over reports he committed war crimes while serving in the Australian Special Air Services in Afghanistan.

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  • Smoke and flames rise from an area hit by airstrikes, in Kabul on March 16, 2026.

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  • An Afghan woman walks out of a cell inside the women's section of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 23, 2021.

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    Taliban allows men to beat their wives as long as they don’t break bones or leave open wounds

  • Afghan men gather near a damaged car after an overnight Pakistani airstrike hit a residential area at the Girdi Kas village in Bihsud district, Nangarhar province, on February 22, 2026.

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    Pakistan’s defense minister says latest clashes with Taliban mean ‘open war.’ What’s happening?

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  • The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2026.

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    Supreme Court allows soldier injured in Bagram suicide bombing to sue contractor

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  • Dennis Coyle, center, waits at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, after the Taliban released him.

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    US citizen imprisoned in Afghanistan arrives back in the United States

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  • US Army soldiers walk past a burning M-ATV armored vehicle after it struck an improvised explosive device near Combat Outpost Nolen in Afghanistan's Arghandab Valley in July 2010.

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    US race to counter Iranian drones echoes response to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan

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