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Powerful blasts rock Kabul; Afghan Defense Minister's house targeted
Aug 04, 2021 04:50The Afghan capital of Kabul has been rocked by coordinated strikes targeting the country’s defense minister and several lawmakers, leaving a number of civilian casualties amid an upturn in violence between the Taliban militant group and government forces.
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Turkey: US triggering major refugee crisis by encouraging Afghans to travel to 3rd states
Aug 04, 2021 04:29Turkey has slammed as “irresponsible” a US-declared program to offer potential resettlement to Afghans who served American occupation forces or worked for US-based organizations through third countries, including Turkey, insisting that the move would generate a “great migration crisis” in the region.
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Iran-Afghanistan border crossings operating normally
Aug 04, 2021 00:30All border crossings between Iran and Afghanistan are open and the Afghan business people can cross the border on their own volition, the spokesperson for the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs said.
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Afghan president: We have plan to restore stability in country in six months
Aug 02, 2021 11:21Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani says Kabul has a plan to restore stability in the country in six months despite the fast-deteriorating security situation.
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Iran tells citizens to leave Afghan cities amid heightened security risks
Aug 02, 2021 01:22The Iranian embassy in Afghanistan has issued an urgent warning calling on citizens to immediately leave cities outside the capital Kabul amid deteriorating security situation in the country.
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Rockets hit Kandahar airport in Afghanistan, all flights suspended
Aug 01, 2021 07:34The Taliban have fired rockets at a key airport in southern Afghanistan causing flight cancelations, and declaring that the attack was meant to thwart airstrikes by Afghan government forces on the militants' positions.
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US lawmaker calls plan to evacuate 'allies' from Afghanistan 'complete disaster'
Aug 01, 2021 04:27A US lawmaker has described the Biden administration’s plan to evacuate Afghans, who worked with US forces in Afghanistan, a "complete disaster".
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One killed in attack on UN compound in western Afghanistan
Jul 31, 2021 02:36At least one Afghan security guard has been killed as “anti-government elements” attacked the main United Nations compound in western Afghanistan, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says.
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US trying to take root in Central Asia after Afghanistan fiasco: Russia
Jul 29, 2021 04:00Russia has denounced the United States' ongoing talks with Afghanistan's neighboring countries to create military bases as well as centers for refugees, saying Washington is seeking to take root in Central Asia following its withdrawal from the war-ravaged country, where it has faced a complete failure.
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Pakistan’s Imran Khan says US ‘really messed it up’ in Afghanistan
Jul 29, 2021 03:55Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has questioned the United States’ rationale behind the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 by stressing that the Americans “really messed it up in Afghanistan.”