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Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost

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By Elian Peltier Verified
| The New York Times Verified
Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule. Women at a street market in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2023.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times July 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m. ET Province by province, the Taliban government’s leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, has tightened his grip over Afghanistan.
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Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost

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By Elian Peltier Verified
| Breaking One
HERAT, Afghanistan -- Province by province, the Taliban government's leader, Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada, has tightened his grip over Afghanistan. With a recent show of force in the western city of Herat, he has asserted control over one of the last havens where people had still been able to quietly ignore some of the Taliban's restrictions. Since retaking power in 2021, the Taliban have enforced a rigid set of rules about religious practice, dress and daily life.
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Pakistan Launches Search After Cargo Plane Vanishes at Sea

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By Elian Peltier Verified
| Flipboard
Pakistan Army 1 hour ago A Boeing 737 plane has disappeared off the coast of Pakistan Business Insider - Aditi Bharade, Pete Syme • 1h A cargo plane with five people on board went missing while flying over the Arabian Sea on Tuesday. The K2 Airways Boeing 737 disappeared from radar about 80 minutes into its two-hour flight from Sharjah, UAE, to Karachi, Pakistan.
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