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Taliban: Women are allowed at universities, not in mixed classes though
Sep 12, 2021 09:48The Taliban’s higher education minister has announced that Afghan women would be allowed to study at university as long as they are separated from men, stressing that there would be a ban on mixed classes.
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Afghan police return to work alongside Taliban at Kabul airport
Sep 12, 2021 06:20Afghan 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 03:17A 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 01:14Afghanistan 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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Aid groups warn Afghan health system on verge of 'collapse'
Sep 10, 2021 15:15International aid agencies working in Afghanistan are sounding the alarm over a health system at "risk of collapse" as the financial support to the war-torn nation was slashed following the Taliban's return to power last month.
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Taliban response to Afghan protests ‘increasingly violent’: UN
Sep 10, 2021 09:52The 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 09:49An 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 03:47Iran’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 00:27Russian 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 12:36A 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.