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Peace still missing link in Afghanistan despite peace deal
Mar 01, 2021 10:55One year has passed from a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, where the US and Taliban representatives inked a deal to put an end to decades-long misery of the Afghan nation by reaching an agreement to bring peace to the war-ravaged country.
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Afghanistan launches COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Feb 24, 2021 06:06Afghanistan has started its first COVID-19 vaccinations, administering doses first to security forces, health workers and journalists. The campaign comes amid a sharp rise in violence in the war-torn country.
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UN concerned at surge in civilian casualties as Taliban, govt. resume peace talks in Doha
Feb 23, 2021 12:25The United Nations (UN) says civilian casualties in Afghanistan have seen a sharp rise since US-brokered intra-Afghan peace talks began last year.
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Pentagon says no decision made yet regarding US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan
Feb 20, 2021 04:19The US says it has made no decision yet regarding the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, claiming that ‘violence’ must be reduced in the war-ravaged country, where American forces are present for the past 20 years.
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No decision on any NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan: Stoltenberg
Feb 19, 2021 02:53NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says defense ministers from the Western military alliance made no decision at a recent meeting in Brussels on whether or when to pull out of war-torn Afghanistan.
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Afghan professor killed in Kabul bomb blast amid surge in violence
Feb 18, 2021 14:17A Kabul University professor has been killed when a bomb hit his car in Afghanistan's capital as several parts of the conflict-ridden country continue to suffer from a wave of assassinations.
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NATO says will not pull forces out of Afghanistan ‘before time is right’
Feb 16, 2021 04:19NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance will not pull its forces out of Afghanistan “before the time is right,” two decades after it invaded the country on the pretext of fighting terror.
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Iran’s customs post untouched by massive blaze on Afghan border: Official
Feb 14, 2021 02:56Iranian customs officials say a key crossing on the eastern border with Afghanistan has not been affected by a massive blaze that engulfed facilities on the other side of the border on Saturday.
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Iran ready to render assistance to Afghanistan after gas tanker explosion on common border
Feb 13, 2021 12:46The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the country has adopted measures to help people injured in a gas tanker explosion at a customs post in Afghanistan, adding that talks are underway between the two countries’ officials in this regard.
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Multiple bomb blasts hit Afghanistan; security forces members killed
Feb 13, 2021 12:07At least four Afghan security forces have been killed in separate bomb blasts in eastern and southern provinces, amid a surge in clashes between the government forces and the Taliban militant group.