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Afghan refugee crisis headed for Europe
Aug 21, 2021 04:04Germany’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.
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Pentagon chief: Americans ‘beaten’ by the Taliban
Aug 21, 2021 03:06US 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.
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Putin slams policy of imposing 'outside values' on Afghanistan
Aug 21, 2021 01:35Russian 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.
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Iran beefs up security along Afghan border amid refugee flow
Aug 21, 2021 01:18Since the conflict erupted in Afghanistan, Iran's border police have deployed more forces to its eastern borders to beef up security.
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British FM Raab faces calls to resign over mishandling of Afghanistan crisis
Aug 21, 2021 01:05UK 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.
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Congress seeks to block Taliban from accessing billions of dollars
Aug 21, 2021 00:57A 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.
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US government lied for two decades about Afghanistan
Aug 20, 2021 12:07Using 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.
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Afghans who guarded British embassy ditched by UK government: Report
Aug 20, 2021 12:00Some 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.
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UN report: Taliban conducting 'targeted door-to-door visits'
Aug 20, 2021 07:18A secret UN document says Taliban militants now ruling Afghanistan are “intensifying” efforts to hunt down elements that collaborated with US and NATO forces despite pledges of general amnesty by the group.
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There 'will never be' a US military solution in Afghanistan: Rep. Barbara Lee
Aug 20, 2021 03:57US Congresswoman Barbara Lee—who cast the sole vote against the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force that was used to justify the war in Afghanistan—reiterated on Sunday, August 15th her assessment that "there is no military solution" to address the worsening chaos in that country.