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Rescue operation underway to put out massive blaze at Afghan-Iran border
Mar 06, 2021 11:33An Iranian official says efforts are underway to put out a fire at a customs outpost in western Afghanistan on the border with Iran, but winds are fanning the flames across the region.
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Seven people of Hazara ethnic group brutally killed in Afghanistan’s restive east
Mar 05, 2021 02:46At least seven members of the persecuted Hazara ethnic group have been brutally killed in Afghanistan’s restive province of Nangarhar, in the latest attack against the largely Shia minority.
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Female doctor killed in eastern Afghanistan roadside bombing
Mar 04, 2021 08:44A bomb explosion has targeted a female doctor in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, local officials say, shortly after three female media workers were killed in the city.
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Daesh claims responsibility for killing 3 female media workers in Afghanistan
Mar 03, 2021 11:21The Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed three female media workers in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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Peace still missing link in Afghanistan despite peace deal
Mar 01, 2021 10:55One year has passed from a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, where the US and Taliban representatives inked a deal to put an end to decades-long misery of the Afghan nation by reaching an agreement to bring peace to the war-ravaged country.
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Afghanistan launches COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Feb 24, 2021 06:06Afghanistan has started its first COVID-19 vaccinations, administering doses first to security forces, health workers and journalists. The campaign comes amid a sharp rise in violence in the war-torn country.
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UN concerned at surge in civilian casualties as Taliban, govt. resume peace talks in Doha
Feb 23, 2021 12:25The United Nations (UN) says civilian casualties in Afghanistan have seen a sharp rise since US-brokered intra-Afghan peace talks began last year.
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Pentagon says no decision made yet regarding US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan
Feb 20, 2021 04:19The US says it has made no decision yet regarding the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, claiming that ‘violence’ must be reduced in the war-ravaged country, where American forces are present for the past 20 years.
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No decision on any NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan: Stoltenberg
Feb 19, 2021 02:53NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says defense ministers from the Western military alliance made no decision at a recent meeting in Brussels on whether or when to pull out of war-torn Afghanistan.
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Afghan professor killed in Kabul bomb blast amid surge in violence
Feb 18, 2021 14:17A Kabul University professor has been killed when a bomb hit his car in Afghanistan's capital as several parts of the conflict-ridden country continue to suffer from a wave of assassinations.