Taliban security forces in Afghanistan have launched a large-scale “clearance operation” against insurgent forces in parts of the turbulent northern Panjshir province, killing dozens of them and capturing many more.
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In a Kabul neighborhood, a gaggle of boys kick a yellow ball around a dusty playground, their boisterous cries echoing off the surrounding apartment buildings.
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On Tuesday, seven Afghan citizens arrived in Luxembourg to start a new life. Earlier that day, they left the temporary facilities in Kosovo
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On the banks of a mountain river outside Tajikistan’s capital, in a resort area teeming with hotels and dachas, stands a modern, two-story building flanked by towering trees and lattice fence panels
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The first international commercial flight from Kabul carried more than 100 people out of Afghanistan with cooperation from the Taliban, in the first such departure since a U.S.-led evacuation ended more than a week ago.
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The Taliban and resistance fighters in an area northeast of Kabul where the militants have yet to seize power have issued statements on ongoing talks and local defense efforts in the Panjshir Valley.
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All American diplomats left Kabul and the United States has suspended its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on August 30, hours after the U.S. military completed its withdrawal from the country.
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Nearly 20 years after the United States intervened in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power, and in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Taliban’s stunningly rapid reconquest of the country reached its denouement Sunday, August 15 as its fighters entered Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani left the country.
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India has become the latest country to evacuate its embassy in Kabul, reportedly leaving only three embassies operating in the Afghan capital -- Russia, China, and Pakistan -- as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul dismissed reports that he had left the country.
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A day after Taliban fighters took up positions in Kabul, the Afghan capital’s international airport on Monday was frenetic with thousands of Afghans looking for a way out, U.S. soldiers firing warning shots as they sought to keep the area secure, and Western nations arranging the evacuation of their nationals and some of the local
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