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Afghan police return to work alongside Taliban at Kabul airport
Sep 12, 2021 10:50Afghan police officers have returned to work alongside Taliban security at the Kabul airport, as the international airfield is resuming operations following the hasty withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan.
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Innocent aid worker, not Daesh bomber, targeted in deadly US drone strike: NYT probe
Sep 11, 2021 07:47A drone strike that US military officials said killed a Daesh bomber in Kabul late last month appears to have targeted the wrong man, killing an innocent Afghan aid worker along with members of his family, according to newly published testimony and footage.
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Afghanistan ‘graveyard’ of US war machines: China Foreign Ministry official
Sep 11, 2021 05:44Afghanistan has been transformed into the “graveyard” of US war machines, says the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, as new footage purportedly shows the Taliban members using a dismantled US aircraft as a swing.
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Taliban response to Afghan protests ‘increasingly violent’: UN
Sep 10, 2021 14:22The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has condemned the Taliban’s increasingly violent response to peaceful protests in Afghanistan, calling on the group to cease the use of force against the protesters.
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First civilian flight leaves Kabul airport since US pullout
Sep 10, 2021 14:19An international flight transporting passengers, including American citizens, has left the Afghan capital for Qatar, for the first time since the last of the US forces left Afghanistan ten days ago.
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Iran slams Panjshir 'fratricide', urges inclusive Afghan government
Sep 10, 2021 08:17Iran’s permanent representative to the UN has censured the recent attack against Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley as an “unjustifiable and condemnable fratricide” that runs counter to the position of the international community.
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Putin: US left world with a mess in Afghanistan to clean up
Sep 10, 2021 04:57Russian President Vladimir Putin says the US’s "experiments" with setting up a so-called “democracy” in Afghanistan resulted in nothing other than chaos, and now the world has to “clear out the mess.”
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Qatari official: Kabul airport 90% operational after chaotic US evacuation
Sep 09, 2021 17:06A Qatari official says Afghanistan's Kabul airport is 90% ready for operation after a team of engineers from the Persian Gulf state repaired parts of the air traffic control system damaged in the wake of a chaotic US evacuation.
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Iran: US responsible for Afghan people’s suffering and pain
Sep 09, 2021 16:19Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the United States is responsible for the suffering and pain of the Afghan people, calling for an inclusive government to be established in the country.
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Taliban interim government agree to evacuation of remaining US, other foreign nationals
Sep 09, 2021 11:32The Taliban’s new interim government has agreed to allow the remaining foreign nationals to leave Afghanistan, less than a month after the militant group took over the war-ravaged country.