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- In this photograph made on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Mes Aynak valley, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Buddha statues are seen inside an ancient temple. The valley is the world's second-largest unexploited copper estimated to be worth nearly $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)
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With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Sun,03/27/22-1:06AM , 201 Reads
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan (AP) — The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper.
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- Afghan musician Nazir Amir Mohammed is hugged by a relative during an emotional farewell from relatives and neighbors as he prepares to leave the country for Iran, at Kucha Kharabat street, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 20, 2022. The songs are silent in the traditional musicians' quarter of Kabul's Old City, ever since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan six months ago. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Silence replaces old folk tunes in historic quarter of Kabul
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Wed,03/23/22-1:40AM , 429 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nabih Bakhsh’s family has been part of Afghanistan’s musical tradition for generations. His great-grandfather was a musician in the court of the Afghan emperor 150 years ago. His father was a famous maestro and singer. Bakhsh too carried on the family art, performing and running an instrument repair shop.
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- Milhem Daher, 35, drinks tea as he sits with his family outside his house in the village of Kasrat Srour, in the southeastern countryside of the Raqqa province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate and home to about 300,000, is now free, but many of its residents try to leave. Those with capital are selling their property to save up for the journey to Turkey. Those without money struggle to get by. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
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Poverty, fear drive exodus from Syria's one-time IS capital
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Tue,02/22/22-12:07AM , 232 Reads
RAQQA, Syria (AP) — In a square that a few years ago was a grim stage for the Islamic State group’s brutal rule in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Mahmoud Dander sat deep in thought.
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- Women walk in Roj detention camp in northeast Syria Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Syrian Kurdish authorities are struggling to supervise tens of thousands of IS-affiliated foreign nationals they are holding in camps and prisons across northeast Syria, with no one to take them. A deadly prison attack last month has sharpened the focus on the detainees' uncertain future. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
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Crisis looms in Syria camps, jails holding foreign nationals
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-1:21AM , 223 Reads
ROJ CAMP, Syria (AP) — It was night when Zakia Kachar heard the sounds of footsteps approach her tent in a detention camp for foreigners affiliated with Islamic State group extremists. With rocks in their hands, the wives of IS fighters had come for her.
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