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2 Chinese Citizens Arrested in Afghanistan on Suspicion of Smuggling Lithium

January 25, 2023
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The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has arrested five men, including two Chinese citizens. They are suspected of smuggling about 1,000 tons of lithium-containing stones out of the country. The regime’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on Jan. 21 that it had seized about 300 tons of these stones in Nangarhar province, and about 700…

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Afghanistan: Our Strategy Must Be Harder and Smarter

August 17, 2021
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Commentary Kabul has fallen. Twenty years after Sept. 11, 2001, when Osama Bin Laden orchestrated the deaths of almost 3,000 people in the United States, and George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan to enforce the law against unrepentant terrorism by the Taliban and al-Qaeda, America’s mission in the country is coming to a humiliating end. For…

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