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ZARANJ, Afghanistan — The smuggler barreled down the narrow dirt road, bouncing into craters and over rocks that jutted out from the scrubland. His headlights were off and as the car picked up speed, he tightened his grip on the steering wheel trying to wrestle it under his control.It ...

“Let’s first get the response,” Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, said this week when asked about Russia’s stance. “Then the position will be formulated based on the conceptual guidelines provided by the head of state.”Updated Jan. 27, 2022, 10:13 a.m. ETBehind the scenes, in the Kremlin’s telling, Mr. Putin ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — It was 20 years ago when the jihadi, a defense ministry official in the Taliban’s first government, fled Afghanistan as U.S. troops swept into the country. He settled in southwestern Pakistan with other Afghans, bought a house and became a baker.Then, after Kabul fell to the ...

With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, life in 2021 returned to something resembling normal, with stadiums again full, lockdowns eased and kids back in class. But there were also plenty of events to remind us that true normal still remains a way off.JANUARY Jan. 1: At last, 2020 is ...

It would be impossible for anyone to listen to each of the hundreds of thousands of podcasts that published new episodes in 2021, let alone rank them. But even within that distressingly bountiful landscape, these shows — personal and ambitious, argumentative and entertaining — were worth a detour.‘9/12’It’s not ...

With India eliminated from the T20 World Cup following New Zealand’s win over Afghanistan on Sunday, India’s clash with Namibia on Monday becomes a dead rubber, of academic interest at most with players trying to improve their personal records. England will meet New Zealand in the semi-finals on Wednesday in ...

One of the first things the New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks witnessed after arriving in Afghanistan in late 2001, soon after U.S. airstrikes on Oct. 7 opened the invasion, was the execution of a wounded Taliban fighter. The scene shocked him, upending everything he thought he knew about ...

The annual General Assembly, the diplomatic mega-event that was held almost entirely virtually last year because of the pandemic, will be far more physical when it convenes for two weeks beginning on Tuesday.Although strict pandemic rules will be enforced — including mandatory mask-wearing for all participants, required vaccinations for ...

OXFORD, England — Five days after the Taliban captured Kabul, Summia Tora began to fear that her father would never get out of Afghanistan. She had been up almost round-the-clock, working every angle to get him on an evacuation flight. But without a special immigrant visa, he did not ...

New Delhi: Six years after its expansion into Khorasan, the historic name for the area encompassing Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India, the Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Afghanistan has proved it continues to have the ability to carry out devastating terrorist assaults with the suicide attack at Kabul ...