Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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A man walks past a United Russia party campaign poster in Moscow. The Kremlin’s Don’t-Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign
Russia isn’t cracking heads ahead of this weekend’s parliamentary vote—just boring people away from the polls.
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Supporters wave German flags. Germany Braces for Election Disinformation
A growing conspiracy movement is likely to spread false narratives about the results, with echoes of Trump.
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The flag of the Islamic Emirate is painted on the wall outside the former U.S. Embassy in Kabul Life Under the Taliban
A few weeks after militants took over Kabul and the country, Afghanistan has gone back to a past it didn’t miss.
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The aftermath of a fire in Antalya, Turkey Erdogan’s AKP: We Didn’t Start the Fire
Why Turkey’s ruling party views environmentalism as a threat.
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Gravediggers carry the coffin of a coronavirus victim in Indonesia. Indonesia Can’t Keep Up With Its COVID-19 Cases
As the massive wave driven by the delta variant spreads to outlying regions, official data may not reflect the scale of the tragedy.
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A tear-gassed protester in Thailand Thailand’s Protests Are Turning Dangerously Violent
Brutal police responses have prompted a shift in once-peaceful movements.
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Forest fire in Greece Conspiracy Theories Rise From the Ashes of Greece’s Fires
The government can claim real successes amid the disaster, but rumors are running wild.
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A man stands in a doorway Taliban Takeover Seen as a Boon for Human Smugglers
Along one part of the Turkish border, hundreds of new Afghan migrants show up every day.
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Iran's then-Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C) of the Taliban in Tehran on Jan. 31. Why Iran Will Welcome the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan
Tehran’s Shiite regime has strategic, economic, ideological, and ecological reasons for backing Sunni extremists.
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Displaced Afghans at a makeshift camp in the Shahr-e-Naw park in northwestern Kabul on Aug. 12. Many Afghans Fear for Their Lives as Taliban Fighters Take Kabul
In a new chapter for Afghanistan, women are particularly vulnerable.
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Newly graduated Afghan National Army cadets march during their graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul on Dec. 30, 2014. What Went Wrong With Afghanistan’s Defense Forces?
Ten provincial capitals have fallen in a week, and Kabul is teetering.
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Men walk in Zaranj, Afghanistan. More Provinces, Atrocities for Rampaging Taliban
Six more Afghan provinces fell over the weekend, and Kabul fears the “country will fall apart.”
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A militia member rests in Afghanistan. With Militias in Herat, ‘We Are Caught Between Bad and Worse’
Killings by militiamen in Herat underscore the risks of relying on armed civilians to fight off the Taliban.
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Storay Karimi gives directions. Taliban Rampage Puts Afghan Journalists in Crosshairs
The last 20 years saw a renaissance in the Afghan media landscape. Now, it’s crumbling.
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A protester on the anniversary of the Beirut blast. Lebanese Mark One-Year Anniversary of Blast With Protests, Rage, and Remembrance
No one has been held accountable for the explosion, even as Lebanon spirals further into economic catastrophe.
