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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 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[ Taliban administration officials attend peace forum in Norway ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The visit took place amidst a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following 20 years of war and as many countries have pulled back on aid after the Taliban stopped Afghan female humanitarian staff from working. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UN meeting seeks ways to press Taliban on women's rights ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 08:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Since ousting a foreign-backed government in August 2021, the Taliban authorities have imposed an austere sharia law that the UN has labelled 'gender-based apartheid'. ]]></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[ Taliban governor of Afghan province killed in suicide attack ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The killing of Mohammad Dawood Muzammil marks one of the highest-level attacks since the Taliban stormed back to power in 2021. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Afghan universities reopen, but women still barred ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, and has sparked global outrage. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Taliban plans to turn former foreign bases into special economic zones ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Afghanistan's economy has struggled and aid agencies are warning of a severe humanitarian crisis since the Taliban took over in 2021 as foreign troops withdrew after 20 years of war. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Four killed in Karachi police attack claimed by Pakistan Taliban ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ A gun battle had raged for hours as security forces went floor-to-floor through an office building in pursuit of the assailants. ]]></description>
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