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Taliban regime remains reluctant to stem terror emanating from Afghan soil despite irrefutable evidence of TTP havens

A group of youth in the southeastern province of Khost are collecting textbooks to distribute them to students. They go home to home and ask for extra textbooks.

Today is Saturday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2023. There is one day left in the year.

On Dec. 30, 1922: Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasted nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991.

KHOST, Afghanistan: Zubaida traveled from the rural outskirts of the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specializing in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women: her death or her childs.

Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin is shown in 1918 at an unknown location.

Afghanistan is among the worst countries in the world for deaths in childbirth, with one woman dying every two hours, according to the U.N.

Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specialising in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women -- her death or her child's.Terje Watterdal, country director for the non-profit Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC), said they saw 5,000 maternal deaths per 100,000 births in remote parts of Afghanistan.

Afghan women sit beside their newborns at the Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-run maternity hospital in Khost

Nurses conduct an ultrasound test for a patient at the maternity hospital in Khost