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From teacher to shoe-shiner: Afghan economic crisis spares few

Hadia Ahmadi, a 43-year-old teacher who lost her job after Taliban seized Kabul, now polishes shoes to earn her livelihood. In the biting cold of a Kabul autumn, Hadia Ahmadi, a 43-year-old teacher who lost her job after the Taliban seized Afghanistan’s capital in August, sits by the roadside trying to earn the equivalent of a few cents polishing shoes. …

Afghan journalists lament ‘bleak’ future for media under Taliban

New regime forces exodus of journalists from Afghanistan where a free press was one of the few real gains of Western occupation. Butler fears that, like Myanmar, the future of Afghanistan’s media is “bleak”, but he understands why so many journalists left both the countries, operating in exile. We have so many examples that the Taliban didn’t and still don’t …

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U.S. pledges to pay relatives of Afghan civilians killed in drone strike

Emal Ahmadi surveys the damage to his family home after a U.S. military drone strike targeting a vehicle in the compound killed 10 of his family members on Aug. 29. The U.S. Defense Department said Friday it was working to provide condolence payments to relatives of 10 Afghan civilians — seven of them children — mistakenly killed in a drone …

Afghan survivors of errant US drone strike seek probe

KABUL, Afghanistan — A survivor of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of his family demanded Saturday that those responsible be punished and said Washington’s apology was not enough. The family On that day, a U.S. hellfire missile struck the car that Ahmadi’s brother Zemerai had just pulled into the driveway of the Ahmadi family compound as …

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Afghanistan survivors of US drone strike: Sorry 'is not enough'

Sorry is not enough for the Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of their family, including seven children. Emal Ahmadi, whose 3-year-old daughter Malika was killed on Aug. 29, when the U.S. hellfire missile struck his elder brother's car, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the family demands Washington investigate who fired the …

US defends strike that Afghan family says killed innocents

KABUL, Afghanistan — It felt like hell itself had opened up, said Ramal Ahmadi, who was watching cartoons with his nephew when a U.S. drone slammed into his family’s courtyard where just moments before there had been a noisy celebration to greet the family’s oldest brother. Sunday’s U.S. drone strike killed 10 members of his family, six of them children, …

KABUL, Afghanistan — For the past four years, since she was 14, the notebook was always within her reach. Everything she loved is in here.” The attack on the Syed Al-Shahada School was gut-wrenching for Afghanistan’s Hazaras, even after so many attacks against them over the years. “I want to help my family and I want to help poor people, …