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The Taliban were able to turn many ethnic minorities against the U.S.-backed government, showing an adaptation by the militants. Part 2 of two.

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, they faced stiff resistance across the country’s north from ethnic-based paramilitaries that resented the southern Pashtun militants. That resistance would prove decisive in 2001 when the

Country singer Adam Mac has dropped out of a Kentucky festival after organisers expressed concerns about him “promoting homosexuality”, he claims. The Logan County Tobacco and Heritage Festival announced earlier this week that Mac, 33, would headline its Grand Finale Concert on 14 October. However, on 21 September, the festival wrote on its official Facebook page that the concert had been

The first several hundred refugees from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh have crossed into Armenian territory, as a historic evacuation begins that could lead to a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians while Azerbaijan appears on the brink of taking control of the breakaway region.

They are the first civilians to have crossed from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia in nearly a year, reuniting families

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is expanding to eight days in 2024.The festival will now begin on Thursday, April 25, creating two equal four-day weekends.The festival will be from Thursday, April 25, to Sunday, April 28, and from Thursday, May 2, to Sunday, May 5. Jazz Fest is held at Fair Grounds Race Course each year and features over 5,000 musicians across 14 stages. Festival