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Evacuation chaos gripping Afghanistan a week after Taliban takeover

Aug 22, 2021 04:31

The United States and Germany have advised their nationals in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to the Kabul airport as chaos and insecurity persist in the capital with Afghans still scrambling to catch evacuation flights out of the country a week after the Taliban swept to power following a lightning military blitz.
Taliban pledge accountability, probe of reprisals across Afghanistan

Aug 21, 2021 09:49

A Taliban official has vowed accountability for the conduct of its members across Afghanistan, insisting that the group will probe reports of any reprisals or atrocities by its forces.
Afghan refugee crisis headed for Europe

Aug 21, 2021 04:04

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, after calling the scenes in Kabul “bitter, dramatic and terrifying,” announced she would look for ways to “secure possibilities for refugees in the neighborhood” of Afghanistan – that is, somewhere that is not inside Europe.
Pentagon chief: Americans ‘beaten’ by the Taliban

Aug 21, 2021 03:06

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has told congressional lawmakers that Americans who are trying to leave Afghanistan have been beaten by Taliban fighters, according to several people who participated in the meeting.
Putin slams policy of imposing 'outside values' on Afghanistan

Aug 21, 2021 01:35

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decried the policy of imposing "outside values" on Afghanistan, which has fallen to the Taliban amid a messy US-led withdrawal from the South Asian country.
Iran beefs up security along Afghan border amid refugee flow

Aug 21, 2021 01:18

Since the conflict erupted in Afghanistan, Iran's border police have deployed more forces to its eastern borders to beef up security.
British FM Raab faces calls to resign over mishandling of Afghanistan crisis

Aug 21, 2021 01:05

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is facing mounting pressure from British political parties to resign due to the “unforgivable failure” of the government in handling the Afghanistan crisis.
Congress seeks to block Taliban from accessing billions of dollars

Aug 21, 2021 00:57

A Republican lawmaker has introduced legislation in the US Congress aimed at blocking the Taliban in Afghanistan from accessing the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has frozen $450 of funds that were scheduled to be dispersed to the country next week.
US government lied for two decades about Afghanistan

Aug 20, 2021 12:07

Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan. Numerous documents, largely ignored by the public, proved that U.S. officials knew what they were saying was false — just as happened so many times in prior wars — and even deliberately doctored information to enable their lies.
Afghans who guarded British embassy ditched by UK government: Report

Aug 20, 2021 12:00

Some 125 Afghans who had been hired to guard the British embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, have been reportedly informed that they are not eligible for a British scheme designed to help people who worked for the UK resettle abroad, amid the takeover of the country by the Taliban militants.