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A photo of the meeting between the Taliban's Abdul Ghani Baradar and South Ossetian security official Aleksey Maksimov posted by the Taliban on Twitter.

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South Ossetian security official meets with the Taliban

by OC Media

•2 min read

A South Ossetian official has met with one of the founders of the Taliban, Abdul Ghani Baradar, according to the Taliban. In a tweet on Thursday evening, Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Naeem said that Baradar, the Taliban’s First Deputy Prime Minister, met with Aleksey Maksimov, a South Ossetian security official, presumably in the Taliban’s political office in Doha. According to Naeem, the two discussed ‘issues related to both countries’ as well as regional security and the situation in Afg

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Afghan war veterans in Daghestan go on hunger strike

by OC Media

•4 min read

Forty-five Afghan war veterans are on a hunger strike in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian Republic of Daghestan, demanding improved housing conditions. According to the federal law on veterans, veterans of the 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War have the right to free housing from the state or cash to go towards purchasing a home. But for three decades, a group of veterans in Daghestan have been given neither housing nor any money. The veterans began their hunger strike on 17 September

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Daghestani minister questioned over unspent money for Afghan-war veterans

by OC Media

•2 min read

Daghestan’s minister of labour and social affairs has come under fire for failing to spend money meant to provide housing for veterans of the war in Afghanistan. At a meeting on Tuesday, Daghestan’s acting Prime Minister, Artyom Zdunov, questioned where the funds had gone. Veterans protested in August over the lack of promised housing. According to the federal law on veterans, veterans of military operations in Afghanistan have the right to free housing from the state or cash to go towar

Seyid with his daughters (Seymur Kazimov /OC Media)

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The Afghan veterans building a life in Azerbaijan

by Seymur Kazimov

•6 min read

A number of Afghans came to Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. Twenty-three years on, many have stayed, making a new life for themselves, in a foreign country. [Read in Azerbaijani — Azərbaycan dilində oxuyun] Fifty-one-year-old Seyid Magsud Hashimi lives in the village of Khindiristan, in Azerbaijan’s, Aghdam District, but he was born in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. He was 13 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and despite having earned good grades in middle school, he couldn’t comple

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Georgian soldier killed in Afghanistan suicide attack

by OC Media

•1 min read

A Georgian soldier serving in Afghanistan has died after a suicide bomber attacked a military base in Afghanistan. Junior Sergeant Mdinari Bebiashvili was killed on 3 August in an attack on the Bagram Airbase, the largest US military base in the country. ‘The Junior Sergeant and his platoon were on patrol with American and local military forces’ when the attack took place according to the Georgian Defence Ministry. Three other Georgian servicemen were wounded, with one in stable but