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                                <title><![CDATA[ No current talks with Taliban, Afghanistan's Massoud says, promising guerrilla warfare ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Ahmad Massoud, who operates from overseas, said his NRF had been forced to change tactics because it could not fight the well-equipped Taliban conventionally. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UN food agency cuts rations to 2 million Afghans as funds dry up ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 08:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ WFP funding for food and cash assistance is expected to run out by the end of October and the agency has had to steadily cut assistance through the year to 10 million Afghans. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UN says over 200 former Afghan military, officials killed since Taliban takeover ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ UN says about half of the killings it recorded occurred in the four months after the Taliban took over, as US-backed foreign forces were withdrawing, in August 2021, and 70 were recorded in 2022. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US-Taliban talks focus on economy, human rights, anti-drug trafficking ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Most Taliban leaders require UN permission to travel abroad, and Afghanistan's banking sector has been crippled by sanctions since the takeover by the Taliban administration. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UN in talks with Taliban about possibly handing over Afghan teaching projects to local organisations ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Aid officials say that the Taliban had signalled international organisations could no longer be involved in education projects, in a move criticised by the UN but not yet confirmed by Afghan authorities. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China, Pakistan urge Afghan aid be delinked from 'political considerations' ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Aid to Afghanistan will drop sharply as donor countries seek to challenge curbs on female aid workers imposed by the Taliban administration and try to cope with an increase in crises around the world, reports say. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US denies role in Taliban killing of IS plotter ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ US officials reported the killing late Tuesday, saying the plotter was from Islamic State-Khorasan, the Afghan arm of the jihadist group. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China 'concerned' about impact of Afghan policies on women's rights ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 05:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The comments at a regional summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan come after a decision by the conservative Taliban authorities to bar women from working for the United Nations sparked international outrage. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ White House blames bad intel, Trump for traumatic Afghan exit ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Ultimately, the White House report suggested, the long-term failure of the war, including the Taliban's surprising resilience and the weakness of government forces, meant the ending was never going to go well. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Taliban officials have closed girls' highschools, barred their access to universities and stopped most women from working at non-governmental organisations. ]]></description>
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