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Taliban condemns ‘barbarity’ of Islamic State execution video
Jewish Journal
August 11, 2015
The Taliban condemned a video released this week showing what appeared to be a group of fighters belonging to the radical Islamic State movement killing a group of Afghan prisoners by blowing them up with explosives.
Former U.S. war prisoner Bergdahl faces desertion charges
Jewish Journal
March 25, 2015
Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan who was released last summer in a controversial prisoner exchange, was charged on Wednesday with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, his attorney said.
Rage, tears and broken childhoods as Pakistan reels from massacre
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2014
Mehran Khan, a mild-mannered 14-year-old survivor of this week\’s massacre at a Pakistani school, says he will not rest until the meaningless deaths of his classmates have been avenged.
Anger and grief as Pakistan buries students massacred at school
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2014
A shocked Pakistan on Wednesday began burying 132 students killed in a grisly attack on their school by Taliban militants that has heaped pressure on the government to do more to tackle the insurgency.
Taliban go on killing spree at Pakistan school, 132 students dead
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2014
At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years.
Wife of Alan Gross invokes Taliban-POW trade following prison visit
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2014
The wife of Alan Gross visited her husband in a Cuban prison, then likened his plight to an American prisoner of war traded for five Taliban members.
Israel backs measure to limit early release for jailed Palestinians
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2014
Israel\’s parliament gave initial approval on Wednesday to a law that would prevent the release of any Palestinian prisoners jailed for murder in connection with an attack in which children were killed.
Pakistani teenager, shot by Taliban, wins EU human rights prize
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2013
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for education for girls, won the European Union\’s annual human rights award on Thursday, beating fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.
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