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Relatives inspect after an overnight suicide attack at a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan. August 2, 2017.

OIC Chief Condemns Terror Attack against Afghan Mosque

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 2, 2017 | Middle East

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Wednesday strongly condemned the suicide bombing attack carried against mosque in the Afghan city of Herat which killed some 30 people, reported the Saudi state-owned news agency SPA. More than 1,700 civilians have been...

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Afghan immigrants working at a brick kiln in Pakdasht, Iran. Millions of undocumented Afghans live in Iran. Credit Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images

How Iran Recruited Afghan Refugees to Fight in Syria

by Ali M Latifi | Jul 2, 2017 | Opinion

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — War and poverty have scattered Afghans across the globe like pieces of shrapnel. Millions of Afghans came of age in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran or as workers in the Persian Gulf nations. The migration continues. The past few years have...

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A Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) weapon © DOD / AFP

Some in Afghanistan Question US Choice to Use 22,000-pound Bomb against ISIS

by Erin Cunningham | Apr 17, 2017 | Features

KABUL — US forces in Afghanistan have not yet assessed the impact of a massive strike on ISIS militants in the eastern part of the country, a military spokesman said Friday, raising questions about the already controversial decision to deploy a 22,000-pound bomb on...

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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb is pictured in this undated handout photo. Elgin Air Force Base / Reuters

‘Mother of all Bombs’ and Mr. President

by Ghassan Charbel | Apr 17, 2017 | Opinion

“Mother of all bombs” is really scary, it weighs ten tons and has unprecedented explosive capabilities, if we exclude the nuclear bomb. The bomb is designed to penetrate barricades and invade dungeons and tunnels. There is no hope for anyone in the targeted place. It...

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FILE PHOTO – A man mourns the death of a relative who was killed in a suicide blast at the tomb of Sufi saint Syed Usman Marwandi, also known as the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine, on Thursday evening in Sehwan Sharif, Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, February 17, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo

ISIS Seeks to Grow along Afghan-Pakistan Border

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 4, 2017 | World

An ISIS offshoot based near the Afghan-Pakistan border is expanding to new areas, recruiting militants and widening the reach of attacks in the region, members of the movement and Afghan officials said. Some members of the so-called “Khorasan Province” of...