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Sune Engel Rasmussen
@SuneEngel
Security correspondent for @WSJ, author of "Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation". Eyes on organized crime, terror and war. He/him
London, England
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Aug 6, 2024
    PUBLICATION DAY! My book on the Afghanistan war was 8 years in the works and it's surreal to finally share it with you. TWENTY YEARS tells the story of the war through the people it affected the most: young Afghans with very different lives and fates bookshop.org/p/books/twenty…
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Oct 8, 2022
    ما در وال استریت ژورنال هر روز، از زمان شروع #اعتراضات_ایران گزارش نوشته‌ایم. اما می‌دانم که بسیاری از مردم ایران به مقالات ما دسترسی ندارند. در آخرین مورد، من روی حادثه ی خون بار در #زاهدان تمرکز کردم ، حادثه ای که در آن بیش از 80 نفر در کشته شدند.
    Unrest Among Iran’s Ethnic Minorities Tests Government
    Unrest Among Iran’s Ethnic Minorities Tests Government
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Nov 15, 2022
    Extraordinary lack of basic fact checking. Iran has not sentenced 15,000 protesters to death, as a number of celebrities and political leaders are saying. Here are the facts as we know them: #IranProtests
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
    @SuneEngel
    Sep 18, 2021
    Saturday morning in Kabul: from today, Afghan boys from grade 7 are allowed to return to school. Girls are not. By not permitting girls to return to school, the Taliban have de facto banned girls’ secondary education for the 1st time since their regime in the 90s #Afghanistan
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Aug 9, 2020
    Someone in Beirut made a bird out of broken glass because Lebanon. #BeirutBlast
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Aug 26, 2021
    The Afghan death toll from today's attack in Kabul increased to 90, with 150 injured, a senior health official told us. #KabulAirportBlast
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Mar 30, 2022
    Hello Afghanistan, always beautiful in the spring.
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Apr 20, 2020
    I have lived in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Lebanon. I have never seen protesters carry guns.
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    Miguel Marquez
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    Apr 20, 2020
    Contingent of heavily armed individuals in back of an old military vehicle just showed up. They said they’re all independent. No affiliation.
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    May 14, 2022
    Finland was always clear-eyed about Russia. For decades, it has stockpiled essentials, put 1000s of civil society leaders thru defense courses to boost “psychological resilience” and built underground shelters that can house 4 million ppl. My latest:
    How Putin Drove Finland Into NATO’s Arms
    How Putin Drove Finland Into NATO’s Arms
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    May 1, 2017
    Great for him. Those are opium poppies, though.
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Aug 27, 2021
    One hospital in Kabul, the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital, said it alone had received 145 dead bodies. The official death toll still stands at 90. #KabulAiport #Afghanistan
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Oct 23, 2024
    See you soon, Beirut! ✈️🇱🇧
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Aug 14, 2021
    Let’s recap how astonishing the collapse of Afghanistan has been: before last week, the Taliban had only captured one major city since 2001 - Kunduz in 2015 - and only for a few days. Now, in the span of 8 days, they have seized everything but Kabul.
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    Sune Engel Rasmussen
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    Aug 4, 2020
    So many explosives/war experts on Twitter today. If you wonder why the actual journalists in #Beirut haven’t yet said what caused the blast, it’s because they’re busy trying to find out before tweeting about it. In other words, doing their job.