Istanbul, Pakistan and Afghanistan
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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.
The latest round of peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan, held in Istanbul, collapsed without any breakthrough despite weeks of mediation by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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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.