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Germany: Merkel calls for a ‘controlled’ Afghan refugee response from EU
Aug 18, 2021 01:40German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for coordinated European Union (EU) action to take in the most vulnerable people from Afghanistan amid the takeover of the country by the Taliban militant group.
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Iraq’s Nujaba leader urges US to ‘take lessons’ from defeat in Afghanistan
Aug 18, 2021 00:47A senior leader of Iraq’s al-Nujaba resistance movement has urged the American forces stationed in the West Asian country to “take lessons” from their humiliating defeat in and ouster from Afghanistan.
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For Biden, images of defeat he wanted to avoid
Aug 17, 2021 12:04Rarely in modern presidential history have words come back to bite an American commander in chief as swiftly as these from President Biden a little more than five weeks ago: “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States in Afghanistan.”
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China: US has left an ‘awful mess’ in Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 12:03China says the United States has left an “awful mess” in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country 20 years after the militants were removed from power following a US-led invasion.
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Taliban promise peaceful transition as world reacts to chaos in Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 07:28As world leaders continue to react to the abrupt US military pullout from Afghanistan, which was followed by the Taliban’s lightning takeover of the country, the militant group tries to assure the civilians and the international community of a peaceful transition.
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After 20 years of lies and war, US retreat underway as Taliban retake control of Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 04:31Nearly two full decades of lies and wishful thinking from U.S. generals, politicians, liberal interventionists, and neoconservative talking heads came into full view as the Taliban in Afghanistan surrounded Kabul.
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Congressman rips Biden's policy towards Afghanistan, calls for investigations
Aug 17, 2021 03:55US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has called for an investigation into President Joe Biden's policy towards Afghanistan, where the state - weakened by 20 years of occupation - collapsed before a resurgent Taliban, days after the withdrawal of most American troops from the country.
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Merkel party chief calls Afghanistan pullout 'biggest NATO debacle' since its founding
Aug 17, 2021 03:28The head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party has called the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan the "biggest NATO debacle" since the founding of the US-led military alliance.
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Iran's Armed Forces maintain full security in eastern borders with Afghanistan: Military commander
Aug 17, 2021 01:09The deputy commander of Iran's Air Defense Force has assured the Iranian people that the country’s eastern borders with Afghanistan are safe and secure amid Taliban’s rapid takeover of the war-ravaged country.
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Iran will use all in its power to promote dialogue, reconciliation in Afghanistan: FM spokesman
Aug 17, 2021 00:51Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Islamic Republic will use all its capacities and available means to promote dialogue and reconciliation in the war-ravaged Afghanistan.