A Taliban fires at a UN compound in Kabul and is later found dead
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says a Taliban fighter opened fire at the U.N. compound in Kabul, slightly injuring a ...
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Gunmen kill a police officer working on Pakistan's first polio drive of the year
Pakistani police say unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive ...
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Art Beat Q&A: Rick Steves shares how life ‘On the Hippie Trail’ led him into the travel business
Book on Sale Feb. 4, preorder here In 2020, in the thick of the pandemic, travel writer and Edmonds local Rick Steves found ...
A Taliban highway could lead to the future. But it’s stuck in the past.
Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...
18 Pakistani soldiers killed in fighting with separatist rebels in Balochistan
Pakistani troops fought separatist insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region of Balochistan, ...
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How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents ...
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18 Pakistani soldiers killed in fighting with separatist rebels in Baluchistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops fought insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region, leaving ...
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The Taliban take over Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel, more than a decade after attacking it
The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel in Kabul, more than a decade after they ...
They escaped from Afghanistan to Wisconsin. Now they've resettled across the nation
As President Donald Trump works to limit the number of immigrants in the country, Afghans who fled Taliban rule are adjusting to life in the U.S.
The forgotten treasure that brought a Silk Road city back to map: ‘Changing notions of a warzone’
In the aftermath of the Kargil War, Muzzamil Hussain's family unearthed a treasure of Silk Road artefacts in their ancestral property near Kargil's bazaar.