Mon 13 September 2021: Former President Donald Trump, lashing out at the Biden administration’s handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, said that China and Russia may exploit US military assets left behind in the country to reverse-engineer a stockpile of weapons worth billions of dollars. The United States’ role in Afghanistan has come under […]
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Mon 13 September 2021: Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi skipped the resumption of her coronavirus-delayed trial in a junta court because she felt ill, her lawyer said Monday. Suu Kyi was deposed by the military in a February coup that sparked a mass uprising. The junta launched a brutal crackdown to suppress opposition, […]
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Sun 12 September 2021: The Taliban were ready to cooperate in the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks back when they just occurred 20 years ago, according to Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman for the movement’s political office in Qatar. “I recall that we condemned the incident. [Abdul Salam] Zareef was the ambassador [to Pakistan] and […]
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Sun 12 September 2021: The higher education minister in the new Taliban government says women can study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but that classrooms will be gender-segregated and that Islamic dress is compulsory. The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference Sunday, several days after Afghanistan’s new […]
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Sat 11 September 2021: Hundreds of Afghan women fully covered from head to toe marched in Kabul holding the Taliban white-and-black flags on Saturday in a show of support for the hardline Islamist group. They were seen in photographs holding printed banners and were being escorted by Taliban soldiers carrying rifles and machine guns. Saturday’s […]
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Sat 11 September 2021: The Taliban flag waved over the Afghan presidential palace the same day the U.S. and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The milestone anniversary Saturday takes place just weeks after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, the faction […]
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Sat 11 September 2021: At least 22,000 civilians— and potentially over 40,000 civilians—have been killed by US-led drone and airstrikes across West Asia and Africa since the 9/11 terror attacks, according to an analysis done by UK-based monitoring group, Airwars. Basing its findings on the declaration made by the US that it launched at least […]
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Fri 10 September 2021: The United States suspects that more than four dozen Afghan evacuees could pose a national security threat, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records. The department has been vetting the more than 60,000 evacuees who have arrived the United States over the two past weeks, […]
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Fri 10 September 2021: According to an internal EU memo, the European Union is working on how to ensure security for a limited EU diplomatic presence in Kabul after the Taliban said in discussions that they would welcome such a move, Bloomberg reported. According to the note, which was obtained by Bloomberg News, the most […]
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Fri 10 September 2021: The Taliban, which recently gained control over Afghanistan, canceled the inauguration ceremony marking the country’s interim government, Inamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission, stated on Friday. “The inauguration ceremony of the new Afghan government was canceled a few days ago. In order not to confuse people further, the […]
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