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The UAE has far more resilience in Washington than Qatar does, due to relationships formed by a long-serving ambassador, policies such as contributing combat troops to the Afghanistan fight and signing the Abraham Accords normalization with Israel, and lobbyists with a keen understanding of Capitol Hill. So the risk in Qatar's case is greater.

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Published: August 16, 2021 4:08am EDT. In the 19th century, the phrase " The Great Game " was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan, and neighbouring central and

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He notes Pakistan was only one of three countries to recognize the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan in the mid-'90s and gave them life support after the U.S. invasion of 2001 ousted them from

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Taliban and Pakistani soldiers guard Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. For some Western powers hoping to influence the new Taliban government, there are hopes that Pakistan could play a role as

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Canada on Tuesday reiterated a call for its citizens to leave Lebanon while they can, saying the security situation in the country was becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable due to the

https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/13/what-will-happen-to-afghanistan-and-pakistan-s-uneasy-border-pub-85152
This allowed Pakistan not only to extract billions of dollars in U.S. security assistance but also to get away with aiding Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan's proximity to land-locked Afghanistan gives Pakistani leaders continued leverage over the United States.

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On November 8, in an unprecedented press conference, Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul-Haq Kakar offered a blistering critique of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He announced that the Taliban leadership was supporting the anti-Pakistan insurgency of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and that had contributed to a major increase in violence in Pakistan — leading to 2,867

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As Afghanistan's neighbour, Pakistan has seen people travel across the border for safety for four decades, from the 1979 Soviet invasion through to the more recent return of the Taliban in 2021

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-27/war-in-lebanon-would-leave-millions-hungry-united-nations/104024878
Violence has broken out between Israel and armed groups in Lebanon several times since the 1970s. The most recent was a 34-day war with Hezbollah in 2006 that killed or injured about 5,000

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Violence surges in Pakistan's tribal belt as Taliban, IS-K go on attack. 13 October 2021. By Abid Hussain, BBC Urdu, Orakzai District. AFP. A Pakistani Taliban militant lays down his gun and

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/29/asia/arzo-afghan-girl-suicide-attempt-pakistan-taliban-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
Pakistan, a place of refuge for millions of Afghans, is carrying out a mass deportation program that has already seen more than 600,000 people cross the border since September 15 - with the

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Now 74 and retired, Crocker was a survivor of the 1983 terrorist bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon, which killed 64 people. He has watched up close as the Palestinian cause evolved from a

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Pakistan is set to start the second phase of a controversial plan to send undocumented Afghan refugees back to their country. Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000

https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/01/afghanistan-pakistan-border-dispute-heats
There are reports that Pakistan has spent nearly $532 million on the project. Pakistan appears to have had two major political goals with the fencing effort: to control cross-border movement of goods and people across what has long been a porous border, as well as to offer a demarcation fait accompli on a border which has been rejected by prior

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036416213/pakistan-afghanistan-border-taliban-torkham
Razziq Mehmon, 40, is an Afghan who is driving a truck loaded with cement bound for Jalalabad, the first major Afghan city across the border. His country has been at war his entire life. After the

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/23/nx-s1-5016175/lebanon-is-home-to-the-most-number-of-refugees-now-it-wants-to-send-some-of-them-back
ARRAF: The U.N.'s refugee agency says Lebanon sent back 10,000 Syrian refugees last year. While some volunteered to go, many others did not. The U.N. says returning refugees to a conflict zone

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The country hosts more than 1 million Syrian refugees. Lebanon adopted an emergency plan for a war scenario in late October. It projected the forcible displacement of 1 million Lebanese for 45 days. More than 95,000 Lebanese are displaced from the border area now, according to the International Organization for Migration. The government has

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Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation.

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AP Month in Pictures: Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. The new Afghan educational year started in Afghanistan, while high school remained closed for girls for the second year after Taliban returned to power in 2021.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/20/afghanistan-worlds-unhappiest-country-even-before-taliban
The annual report ranked Afghanistan as last among 149 countries surveyed, with a happiness rate of just 2.5. Lebanon was the world's second saddest country, with Botswana, Rwanda and Zimbabwe

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2021/8/11/no-more-refugees-not-the-answer-to-afghanistans-displacement-crisis
Displaced families take shelter in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan on 10 August, 2021. The families left their homes in northern provinces because of fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces. BOSTON. No more refugees - this is the dangerous rhetoric emerging in Pakistan as instability escalates across the border in Afghanistan.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/31/thousands-of-afghan-refugees-fleeing-pakistan-as-deportation-deadline-looms
More recently, after the Taliban regained power in 2021, Pakistani officials say between 600,000 to 800,000 Afghans migrated to Pakistan. The Pakistani government claims nearly 1.7 million of

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58187983
Normally, about 6,000-7,000 people would travel between the two countries daily - but today there are hardly 50 people standing on the Afghanistan side to enter Pakistan. It's taking longer than

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/2023/11/04/afghans-face-chaos-at-pakistans-zero-point-as-they-are-forced-to-leave/
As a result, many of the arrivals need financial assistance, Arafat Muhajir, an official from the local office of information and culture on the Afghan side of Torkham, told The National. "The Afghan Ministry of Transportation," Mr Muhajir said, "gives small amounts - up to 4,000 afghanis ($53) per family - to help them travel onwards to other cities."

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"It underscores the need for Pakistan to more effectively lobby Congress," she added. Khan, founder of PTI and Pakistan's prime minister from August 2018 to April 2022,

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/8/16850116/trump-pakistan-suspend-aid
"The alternative routes for US supplies into Afghanistan cost seven to eight times more," Mosharraf Zaidi, a former adviser to Pakistan's foreign minister from 2011 to 2013, told me.

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No media source currently available 0:00 0:00:51 0:00 Ten Ukrainian civilians arrived in Kyiv early on June 29 after years of imprisonment -- five had been held in Russia and five others in Belarus.

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