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By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan . An 18th century Pashto language book on Sufism was handed over to Afghanistan on Tuesday after being discovered in a Dublin book store by a Turkish diplomat.

The Taliban confiscated at least 50,000 books from publishing houses and bookshops in the Afghan capital this week. Publishers and bookstore owners said the extremist group has also banned the ...

For 20 years, the war pitted Taliban militants against a US-led coalition of 38 countries supporting the Afghan Republic and its forces. ... His book, initially 2,000 copies in Pashto, ...

The book, which is set to be released next week from Penguin Random House, recounts the first two years of the Biden presidency, ending with the 2022 midterm elections.

What the Taliban Told Me," by Ian Fritz is a gripping coming-of-age memoir that traces his time as a young U.S. airborne cryptologic linguist in Afghanistan.

Linda Donigan, children’s librarian at the Bennington Free Library, with an English-language book that has added text in Dari for Afghan refugee children in Bennington on Tuesday, Nov. 22.

The authorities say that Afghan Education Ministry has sent two containers of the book to be distributed in Pakistan, but Pakistani authorities have not yet allowed the book to cross the border.

Pashto is one of Afghanistan’s national languages and is used for official communications by the Taliban, which has controlled the country since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.