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Volker Waldmann, right, and Jim Fitton, center, are handcuffed as they walk to a courtroom in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Waldmann and Fitton, accused of smuggling ancient shards out of Iraq, appeared in a Baghdad court Sunday, telling judges they had not acted with criminal intent and had no idea they might have broken local laws. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Iraqi court postpones smuggling case against Briton, German
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Sun,05/22/22-6:10AM , 509 Reads
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court Sunday postponed the trial of two European tourists charged with antiquities smuggling after their lawyers argued more information was needed about the ancient shards found in their possession.
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In this photograph made on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Mes Aynak valley, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Buddha statues are seen inside an ancient temple. The valley is the world's second-largest unexploited copper estimated to be worth nearly $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

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With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Sun,03/27/22-1:06AM , 425 Reads
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan (AP) — The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper.
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Afghan musician Nazir Amir Mohammed is hugged by a relative during an emotional farewell from relatives and neighbors as he prepares to leave the country for Iran, at Kucha Kharabat street, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 20, 2022. The songs are silent in the traditional musicians' quarter of Kabul's Old City, ever since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan six months ago. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Silence replaces old folk tunes in historic quarter of Kabul
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Wed,03/23/22-1:40AM , 574 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nabih Bakhsh’s family has been part of Afghanistan’s musical tradition for generations. His great-grandfather was a musician in the court of the Afghan emperor 150 years ago. His father was a famous maestro and singer. Bakhsh too carried on the family art, performing and running an instrument repair shop.
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Milhem Daher, 35, drinks tea as he sits with his family outside his house in the village of Kasrat Srour, in the southeastern countryside of the Raqqa province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate and home to about 300,000, is now free, but many of its residents try to leave. Those with capital are selling their property to save up for the journey to Turkey. Those without money struggle to get by. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

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Poverty, fear drive exodus from Syria's one-time IS capital
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Tue,02/22/22-12:07AM , 410 Reads
RAQQA, Syria (AP) — In a square that a few years ago was a grim stage for the Islamic State group’s brutal rule in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Mahmoud Dander sat deep in thought.
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