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Influx of Afghan refugees into Iran unabated in wake of Taliban rule
Aug 18, 2021 11:02Aside from the tumultuous stories of Afghanistan, there is a story of a quest for peace; an epic trek that took this Afghan family 48 hours on foot to get to neighboring Iran.
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Trump calls Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan ‘greatest embarrassment’
Aug 18, 2021 10:40Former US President Donald Trump has described President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan the “greatest embarrassment” in the history of the United States.
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US to continue diplomacy in Afghanistan after Aug. 31 if 'safe'
Aug 18, 2021 08:34The United States remains open to keeping its diplomatic presence at Kabul's airport following a withdrawal deadline at the end of August if conditions permit, says a State Department spokesman.
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Reactions from across West Asia to Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan
Aug 18, 2021 08:12Regional countries, entities and personalities have been reacting to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan following the United States’ abrupt military withdrawal, which put an end to a futile two-decade-long war in the South Asian country.
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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.