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Taliban leaders call for international aid as refugee exodus looms
Dec 19, 2021 06:02Taliban leaders have once more appealed to the international community to extend aid to Afghanistan amid a worsening economic crisis that could spark a refugee exodus.
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Iranian FM in Pakistan for OIC meeting on Afghanistan
Dec 19, 2021 03:52Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has traveled to Islamabad for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) about Afghanistan.
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President Raeisi: Murder, crime, bloodshed sole outcomes of US, NATO presence in Afghanistan
Dec 16, 2021 13:36President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says two decades of the military presence of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan had no other result for the Afghan people but bloodshed and backwardness.
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Advocates call for accountability in Kabul drone attack, decry US 'impunity, secrecy'
Dec 15, 2021 06:09Several human rights advocates have denounced the United States' latest decision not to hold any of its military personnel accountable for a deadly drone strike in Afghanistan that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in August, calling on Washington to punish those involved in the botched attack.
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Afghans facing avalanche of hunger, destitution: WFP
Dec 14, 2021 14:10The UN's food agency has warned that a failing economy could plunge Afghanistan into catastrophe next year.
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No punishment for military personnel involved in deadly August 29 drone strike in Afghanistan: Pentagon
Dec 14, 2021 04:34The US military has announced that it will not hold any of its personnel accountable for a deadly August drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Afghanistan.
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India signals commitment to Chahabar despite Taliban shadow
Dec 13, 2021 09:07India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar says Iran’s Chabahar Port has emerged as a commercial transit hub for the region.
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ICRC, Iran’s Red Crescent announce joint effort to vaccinate Afghan migrants
Dec 13, 2021 06:00The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) have announced joint measures to vaccinate Afghan migrants living in Iran against the new coronavirus infection as the country boosts efforts made to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pakistani Taliban ends ceasefire
Dec 12, 2021 06:49Pakistan-based Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, has unilaterally announced an end to a ceasefire with the government.
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Agreement within reach in Vienna if major powers respect others’ interests: Iran Parliament speaker
Dec 10, 2021 14:34Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says an agreement is within reach between Tehran and the remaining parties to the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal during the ongoing sanctions-removal talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna if the opposite parties respect others’ interests.