Thomas Gibbons-Neff
@Tmgneff
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Correspondent for @nytimes [email protected]
Joined December 2011
RT @lapatina_: Some people fail to realize that we are not a PR agency, and our only job is to uncover the truth. It's especially ridicul….
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RT @KateClark66: Brilliant new report from @AANAfgh @assemmayar1 on the Iranian-Afghan dispute over the Helmand River. It covers the histor….
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Afghanistan and Iran have been at loggerheads for much of this year over the Helmand River and its water. As the region grappled with a punishing drought for the third year running, the two neighbo...
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Cricket Gives a Nation Bowed by Violence a Reason to Stand Tall. from @MujMash
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Afghanistan’s cricket team has won big games and many fans in an international competition, in a stark contrast to the pariah status of its government.
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RT @KateClark66: I may not be interested in cricket, but the Afghan game persuaded me to write a history of #Afghan cricket in 2017. Repost….
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RT @alibomaye: For decades, this park was dirty and unkempt, with the smell of hashish often wafting in the air (in the back, addicts would….
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RT @a_a_jackson: There has been growing attention to aid diversion in Afghanistan in recent months. This is my attempt to make sense of exa….
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RT @dguttenfelder: Four Seconds to Impact: .On the Front Line With Ukraine’s Snipers. @Tmgneff @dguttenfelder .
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In a war built around artillery, tanks, drones and cruise missiles, the role of the sniper, unseen and lethal, occupies an often overlooked but essential part of the battlefield.
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RT @LynzyBilling: How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment . My latest for @newlinesmag and @insideclimate and republished by….
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Those who lived near vast bases say the US military’s lack of protections poisoned the land and sickened their children, perhaps for generations
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RT @mjluxmoore: Members of Russia's electoral commission in occupied Donetsk region were wounded in an artillery attack this week. Russia i….
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Russia is staging elections in occupied Ukrainian territory that have been widely condemned by Kyiv and its Western allies as a sham.
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RT @BBCYaldaHakim: The @WFP says it has cut rations to another two million Afghans this month, due to a further sharp drop in funding. "A w….
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RT @alexhiniker: Hiniker said she and others who track the impacts of cluster munitions are “baffled by the fact that the US is sending tot….
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RT @tggrove: Kamianka, Ukraine, a small village in eastern Ukraine, plays an outsized role in a century of violence by @Tmgneff with came….
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The legacy of World War II lingers in the Ukrainian town of Kamianka, where tractors spit out shell casings, old and new. Now it has been destroyed by a new conflict.
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RT @CassVinograd: “For Ms. Huk, and the hundred or so residents who have returned to Kamianka since Ukraine reclaimed it, the current war i….
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The legacy of World War II lingers in the Ukrainian town of Kamianka, where tractors spit out shell casings, old and new. Now it has been destroyed by a new conflict.
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RT @AP: Walking home from school, two Syrian sisters picked up what they thought was scrap metal they could sell. Rawaa lost an eye and Doa….
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More than 300 people were killed by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022, surpassing Syria as the country with the highest number of deaths from the controversial weapons for the first time in a...
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RT @VeraMBergen: "But for Ms. Huk, and the hundred or so residents who have returned to Kamianka since Ukraine reclaimed it, the current wa….
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The legacy of World War II lingers in the Ukrainian town of Kamianka, where tractors spit out shell casings, old and new. Now it has been destroyed by a new conflict.
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