Pakistan, Afghanistan and Istanbul
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Some 4 years after fleeing Afghanistan, a group of refugees returns to international competition
Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country once more in an international soccer tournament.
An interactive map of Afghanistan, Project Athena is an archive to which veterans can upload photos, chronicling the war as they lived it.
The tenuous peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan appears to have ended after days of escalating conflict that came to a head as Afghanistan accused its neighbor of carrying out airstrikes on its territory on Friday.
Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have hit an impasse in Istanbul after three days of negotiations, with state media in both countries blaming each other for the failure to reach a deal while efforts by Turkey were still underway.
Shortly before a ceasefire brought an end to a week of violence along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in which dozens of troops and civilians were killed, a video of a fire at a plaza in Peshawar was shared in posts falsely claiming it was the result of an Afghan drone attack.
Some 1,300 Afghans are in limbo at an American camp in Qatar, unable to continue to the U.S. but in danger if they go back home.
Pakistani sources said that despite hopes that a mutual document will be signed with Afghanistan, a solution remains out of reach.
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