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KABUL: The Afghan Taliban are stepping up coal exports to Pakistan and have raised duties on sales, officials said, as the group aims to generate more revenue from its mining sector in the absence of direct foreign funding. The move comes with global coal prices near record highs after top exporter Indonesia imposed a shock ban on exports earlier in 2022 and then Russia invaded Ukraine, pushing prices up further.No country has officially recognised the Taliban government, which has meant interna

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — The Taliban attack on a police outpost at the edge of the city began at dusk, with the muted chatter of machine-gun fire and the thud of explosions.... Mohammed Fawad Saleh at his headquarters, several miles away, desperate for help. The police captain replied that he would send more men, along with one can of machine-gun ammunition — 200 rounds, not enough for even a minute of intensive fire.“ One can?... The Biden administration insists that the Afghan military

But there was no reserve about continuing to attack the Afghan Security Forces.“ Our fight started before America — against corruption.... The corrupt begged America to come because they couldn’t fight, ” a young commander of the Taliban elite “ Red Unit ” in Alingar said.... “ But at the top, they gained legitimacy from a single source, a single leader.” Over the years, the group’s top leadership has mostly remained in Pakistan, where the insurgency’s reconstitution was supported by Inter-Ser

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Racing down the cratered highways at dawn, Mohammad Rasool knew his 9-year-old daughter was running out of time. She had been battling pneumonia for two weeks and he had run out of cash to buy her medicine after the bank in his rural town closed.... Across other major cities, public hospitals do not have the money to buy badly needed medical supplies or to pay doctors and nurses, some of who have left their posts.... In recent weeks, the United States and the Euro