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EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based Red Bull Studios has sold Afghanistan documentary Riders On The Storm to Canal+ for France and unveiled the official trailer (click above), ahead of the film's screening in DOC NYC this weekend. The film by Jason Motlagh and Mark Oltmanns – which originally world premiered at…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal a first clip for Taliban documentary Hollywoodgate ahead of its world premiere in Venice on Thursday, which will be followed by a screening in Telluride. The ascent to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2021 sent shock waves…

The Cannes Film Festival has a long tradition of showing films about world events and this year is no exception. Afghan director Sahra Mani's documentary Bread and Roses, capturing the experiences of her country women living under the Taliban since they took control of Kabul in 2021, was announced…

Editor’s note: Hollie McKay's latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author back in Afghanistan more than a year after the U.S. withdrawal, and negotiating how to be a journalist in the country…

President Joe Biden made the official announcement that a U.S. drone strike killed top al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul over the weekend. “Now, justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said from the White House. “People around the world no longer need to…

Editor’s Note: As the Taliban tightens its grip on Afghanistan, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay, who has remained in the country almost continuously since the U.S. withdrawal at the end of August, spotlights both the necessity…

Editors’ Note: The fallout from the abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August has been perhaps most harshly felt by the women and girls of the South Asian nation, as veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay has discovered in he…

Editors’ note: Hollie McKay's latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author negotiating the sometimes contradictory new realities for female journalists in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s return to power…

Joe Biden declared a “new era of relentless diplomacy” in his first speech as president to the UN General Assembly, as he tried to show that the U.S. was turning the page on what he called an “era of relentless war” and focusing on international crises like climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. The major cable and…

Editor’s Note: Hollie McKay's latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writing from Kabul about the disinformation campaigns across the Taliban-ruled South Asian nation. A month into the Taliban…

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline, the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writes from Kabul about the silencing of Afghanistan’s music and musicians as the Taliban consolidates its return to power amidst the…

Editor's note: In another special report for Deadline, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay is back in Kabul to cover the nation’s return to Taliban rule, almost 20 years after American forces ejected the fundamentalist group from…