Taliban in power may find themselves fighting Islamist insurgents
Show caption Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, holds a press conference. Photograph: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles…
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New Zealand stabbings: nation rallies behind Muslim community
New Zealand has responded to its first terror attack by an Islamic state-inspired extremist with…
Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad
It was Nov. 13 , 2001. The sun had just begun to rise over the…
Rafia Zakaria: ‘A lot of white female professors told me to quit’
Show caption Rafia Zakaria: ‘I am going to ask questions.’ Photograph: AJ Mast/The Guardian Society…
Putin hopes the Taliban will be ‘civilised’, open to dialogue
The Russian president is treading carefully with the hardline group, which Moscow officially considers a…
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Angelina Jolie: ‘I just want my family to heal’
Angelina Jolie sits at a desk, back straight as a rule and rather regal. Her…
Jihadist attack in Burkina Faso kills 80 people
Show caption Burkinabe soldiers patrol a road near the town of Gorgadji, in the Sahel…
Afghanistan: 10 members of one family ‘killed in US airstrike’ targeting Isis-K near Kabul airport
A US drone strike in Kabul, which the Pentagon said destroyed a vehicle carrying suicide…
New Zealand stabbings: man shot dead by police after ‘terrorist attack’ in Auckland
An attack at a New Zealand supermarket was “a terrorist attack” by a “violent extremist”…