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...“Ramallah has always been very popular for its coffee shops, restaurants, fast food, fine dining, lounges, drinks, music,” said Mohammad Khalaf, operations director at the Royal Court Hotel....
...Some senior figures such as supreme court chief Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai supported the ban, while others including defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob and interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani opposed it, according...
...Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar deputy prime minister The most familiar international face of the Taliban and one of the movement’s four co-founders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar held a senior military role in...
...Political chief Abdul Ghani Baradar, who led the group’s negotiations with the US, has been made deputy. Mohammad Yaqoob, Taliban founder Omar’s son, has been appointed acting defence minister....
...Some spent time in jail, including Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy leader and co-founder, or were detained in Guantánamo Bay....
...Sitting in his predecessor’s office in front of a picture of foreigners lounging by the pool in the 1970s, Mullah Mohammad Abdul Samad Tayeb says the 200-room state-owned establishment, which has long lost...
..., the leader of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front and the son of Soviet-era resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, Amrullah Saleh, the former vice-president and self-declared acting president, and Abdul...
...Markus Potzel, Germany’s ambassador to Afghanistan, tweeted on Friday that he had held a “constructive meeting” with Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, deputy director of the Taliban political office....
...The group on Monday named Haji Mohammad Idris, a longstanding member of the Taliban about whom little is known, to serve as acting head of the central bank....
...The Taliban is now reportedly targeting other northern cities, including Mazar-i-Sharif, the biggest in the region and base of Atta Mohammad Noor, a former governor and another northern commander....
...Instead, he was appointed deputy to Mohammad Hassan Akhund, an adviser to the late Taliban founder Mohammed Omar....
...The two Taliban leaders with the greatest level of international exposure and best known to foreign governments, Abdul Ghani Baradar and Sher Mohammad Stanikzai, have also been effectively sidelined....
...Mohammad, 30, worked as a Taliban spy while at university in Kabul, transporting weapons and alerting his unit to the movement of military convoys....
...Others such as Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammad Noor are reportedly in exile. Any Afghan resistance would also struggle to attract international support....
...Political figures in the region fled, including anti-Taliban leaders Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ata Mohammad Noor, who sought refuge in neighbouring Uzbekistan, according to local news reports....
...In September, India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar hosted Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek who has served as a former pro-Soviet fighter, anti-Taliban commander and Afghanistan vice-president....
...A veteran warlord surrenders Near the Iranian border, veteran warlord Mohammad Ismail Khan had for weeks resumed the fight against the old enemy....
...Zalmay Khalilzad, US special representative to Afghanistan, sat down with Taliban delegation leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a red-carpeted hall in Qatar to sign the deal that included American forces...
...His cry for help was not heeded, though the director of the National Museum of Afghanistan, Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, issued a statement later indicating that he and his staff had received support from the...
...Mohammad Omari, it turns out, is not a fighter, but a softly spoken assistant to the shadow governor of Ghazni....
...Mohammad Tawfiq Allawi, who has previously served as communications minister, was appointed by the president Barham Salih after weeks of squabbling between Iraq’s political parties to replace Adel Abdul...
...The 1953 coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh marked the beginning of public hostility toward the US, although Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi maintained warm diplomatic relations...
...Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, also said on Sunday that Tehran could reverse steps towards developing a nuclear weapon if the US ended punitive sanctions that have crippled its economy....
...Some protesters were pictured holding placards that read, “We are all Abdul Wahab al-Saadi”....
...Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, also said Tehran could reverse steps towards increasing its nuclear activity if the US ended punitive sanctions that have crippled its economy....
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