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Soviet-era president Gorbachev: US must learn from Afghan failure
Aug 18, 2021 08:04Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia’s last Soviet-era leader, who led the withdrawal of Russian occupation forces from Afghanistan in 1989, has slammed the US military invasion of the war-torn country as doomed from the outset, saying “lessons” should be learned from the conflict.
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US still ignorant, repeating same mistakes in region: Nasrallah
Aug 18, 2021 04:52The leader of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the US failure in Afghanistan shows that Washington’s foreign policies are miscalculated and ignorant.
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US occupation over, Afghanistan no longer a battlefield: Taliban in 1st presser
Aug 18, 2021 02:27The Taliban militant group says the 20-year-long occupation of Afghanistan by the US-led forces has come to an end, and that no one is after the continuation of war in the country.
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Germany: Merkel calls for a ‘controlled’ Afghan refugee response from EU
Aug 18, 2021 01:40German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for coordinated European Union (EU) action to take in the most vulnerable people from Afghanistan amid the takeover of the country by the Taliban militant group.
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Iraq’s Nujaba leader urges US to ‘take lessons’ from defeat in Afghanistan
Aug 18, 2021 00:47A senior leader of Iraq’s al-Nujaba resistance movement has urged the American forces stationed in the West Asian country to “take lessons” from their humiliating defeat in and ouster from Afghanistan.
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China: US has left an ‘awful mess’ in Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 12:03China says the United States has left an “awful mess” in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country 20 years after the militants were removed from power following a US-led invasion.
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Taliban promise peaceful transition as world reacts to chaos in Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 07:28As world leaders continue to react to the abrupt US military pullout from Afghanistan, which was followed by the Taliban’s lightning takeover of the country, the militant group tries to assure the civilians and the international community of a peaceful transition.
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Congressman rips Biden's policy towards Afghanistan, calls for investigations
Aug 17, 2021 03:55US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has called for an investigation into President Joe Biden's policy towards Afghanistan, where the state - weakened by 20 years of occupation - collapsed before a resurgent Taliban, days after the withdrawal of most American troops from the country.
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Merkel party chief calls Afghanistan pullout 'biggest NATO debacle' since its founding
Aug 17, 2021 03:28The head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party has called the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan the "biggest NATO debacle" since the founding of the US-led military alliance.
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China says ready to establish ‘friendly, cooperative ties’ with Afghanistan under Taliban
Aug 17, 2021 03:20China says it is ready to deepen “friendly and cooperative” relations with Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul.