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Houthi to US, Saudis: Prepare Yemen retreat plan after Afghanistan fiasco
Aug 31, 2021 11:33In the wake of America’s disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan after a futile war, a senior Yemeni official has called on the United States and Saudi Arabia to draw up a plan for pullout from Yemen as well, warning that the Arab country will eventually turn into a “graveyard for the aggressors.”
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Enraged Afghans on US drone strike: They killed innocent kids, not Daesh bombers
Aug 31, 2021 11:29Sunday’s drone strike in Kabul, which Washington claims targeted a potential Daesh operative preparing a bomb attack, in fact turned out to be a horrifying military blunder that took the lives of 10 members of an Afghan family, seven of them children, according to survivors and witnesses of the nightmarish strike.
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Trump says Taliban should return US equipment or pay for it
Aug 31, 2021 07:55Former US President Donald Trump says Taliban should return the equipment it has confiscated from Americans in Afghanistan or pay for it.
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Taliban spokesman says US exit to result in end to Daesh attacks
Aug 31, 2021 06:36The Taliban, now in control of most parts of Afghanistan, say they will crack down on attacks by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists and expect the offensives to end once US-led foreign forces leave the war-ravaged country.
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Russia says US must release Afghanistan's blocked reserves, cause no more problems for country
Aug 31, 2021 05:55Russia has called on the United States to release blocked reserves of the Afghan central bank and stop making more problems for the Taliban-controlled country.
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UK ‘willing to engage’ with Taliban, says minister
Aug 31, 2021 05:47The UK is “willing to engage” with the Taliban “if [they] start acting like a government,” says the government minister, stressing that in spite of the withdrawal, Britain will continue to help people eligible for resettlement.
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Iran rules out foreign decision-making on Afghanistan
Aug 30, 2021 13:39The Afghans are the only side allowed to decide the fate of their own country, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, stressing that outsiders have no right to determine the future of Afghanistan.
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Rockets fired at Kabul airport after US drone strike against potential Daesh threat
Aug 30, 2021 08:15As many as five rockets have been fired at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul after the United States conducted a drone strike allegedly targeting a potential planner with the Daesh terrorist group.
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Nine members of Afghan family, including 6 kids, killed in ‘preemptive’ US attack on Kabul
Aug 30, 2021 07:04An initial fatality figure emerges from, what was earlier described as, a preemptive US drone strike in the vicinity of the Kabul International Airport, showing that the attack killed nine members of an Afghan family, including six children.
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Women allowed to attend university under Taliban rule: Acting higher education minister
Aug 30, 2021 05:47The Taliban's acting higher education minister says Afghan women would be allowed to study at university under the group's rule, but there would be a ban on mixed classes.