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US actions root cause of all of Afghanistan’s woes: FM
Aug 31, 2021 00:45Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian puts all of Afghanistan’s woes down to the United States’ misdeeds concerning the Central Asian country.
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Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’ attack hours before Kabul blast: Classified notes
Aug 30, 2021 10:10The Pentagon instructed senior US military leaders to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty event” just 24 hours before a bombing killed 13 US servicemen and scores of Afghan civilians at Kabul’s international airport on Thursday, according to classified detailed notes of the gathering obtained by Politico.
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China urges US to avoid playing 'double standards' in Afghanistan
Aug 30, 2021 10:04China has advised the United States to “positively guide” the Taliban instead of practicing “double standards” on fighting terrorism in Afghanistan.
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Former UK commander in Afghanistan warns of ‘greatest danger’ from Daesh
Aug 30, 2021 10:00A former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan has warned that the UK faces the “greatest danger from terrorism” since the Daesh militant group is “at its height”.
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Iran rules out foreign decision-making on Afghanistan
Aug 30, 2021 09:09The Afghans are the only side allowed to decide the fate of their own country, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, stressing that outsiders have no right to determine the future of Afghanistan.
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Rockets fired at Kabul airport after US drone strike against potential Daesh threat
Aug 30, 2021 03:45As many as five rockets have been fired at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul after the United States conducted a drone strike allegedly targeting a potential planner with the Daesh terrorist group.
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Nine members of Afghan family, including 6 kids, killed in ‘preemptive’ US attack on Kabul
Aug 30, 2021 02:34An initial fatality figure emerges from, what was earlier described as, a preemptive US drone strike in the vicinity of the Kabul International Airport, showing that the attack killed nine members of an Afghan family, including six children.
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Women allowed to attend university under Taliban rule: Acting higher education minister
Aug 30, 2021 01:17The Taliban's acting higher education minister says Afghan women would be allowed to study at university under the group's rule, but there would be a ban on mixed classes.
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Boris Johnson regrets manner of UK withdrawal from Afghanistan
Aug 30, 2021 00:30UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed his regret of the way his government withdrew from Afghanistan, saying Britain “would not have wished to leave in this way.”
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Rocket attack hits near Kabul airport, no report of casualties
Aug 29, 2021 12:20A loud blast has been heard in the Afghan capital Kabul hours after US officials warned of the possibility of a terror attack in the war-torn country’s capital.