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More US soldiers arrive in Kabul to evacuate civilians
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
After an initial contingent landed in the Afghan capital on Friday, the US operation appeared to be picking up pace, as the insurgents closed in on Kabul. Bill ...
Afghan president vows to stop bloodshed as Taliban close in on Kabul
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
In a recorded address to the nation -- his first since the Taliban launched their sweeping offensive -- Ashraf Ghani said he wanted to stop the violence "as a h...
Weapon seizures 'massive boon' for Taliban as cities fall
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
"We provided our Afghan partners with all the tools -- let me emphasise: all the tools," US President Joe Biden said when defending his decision to withdraw Ame...
Turkish army fire kills Iraqi Kurd farmer: local official
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
The incident came a day after a Turkish soldier was killed in the same region by shellfire that Ankara blamed on fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK...
US to evacuate Afghanistan embassy staff as Taliban seize cities
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
The announcement came hours after Afghan troops abandoned the country's third largest city -- Herat -- to the insurgents, as the morale of Afghanistan's securit...
US to send 3,000 troops to Kabul airport to pull out embassy staff
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
"We are further reducing our civilian footprint in Kabul in light of the evolving security situation," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. "Thi...
Scars, trauma but no regret for Afghan veterans
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
American, Australian, French, German and Spanish serving and ex-soldiers who talked to AFP shared a complex range of sentiments about a conflict that has raged ...
Germany to end Afghanistan aid if Taliban take power
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking to the German broadcaster ZDF, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the Taliban know that Afghanistan cannot survive without international aid. "We will no...
US frustration mounts over Afghan failure to halt Taliban
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
President Joe Biden and other officials have repeatedly called for Afghan leaders to unite and fashion a clear strategy amid mounting worries that the insurgent...
Two more cities fall to Taliban as thousands flee northern Afghanistan
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
But despite the bloodshed, and with eight provincial capitals now toppled in the insurgents' sweeping advance, US President Joe Biden gave no hint of delaying h...
Russia wraps up war games near Tajik-Afghan border
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Governments in the ex-Soviet region of Central Asia, where Moscow has strong relationships, have sounded the alarm over the spiral of conflict in neighbouring A...
Biden unmoved on Afghan exit as Taliban sweep provinces
Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)
The Taliban's advances, including seizing six provincial capitals within days, may appear startling in their speed but were not unexpected in Washington as the ...
Taliban kill top Afghan government media official as fighting rages
Aug 06, 2021 (AFP)
The assassination of one of the government's leading voices follows another bloody day of fighting in Afghanistan as the war increasingly spills into Kabul. It ...
Told to leave but nowhere to go: civilians caught in Afghan crossfire
Aug 06, 2021 (AFP)
There is one big problem: where do they go? With the insurgents in control of vast swaths of the Afghan countryside, they are now focusing their offensives on a...
Russia-led drills begin on Afghanistan border
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian military's General Staff flew into Uzbekistan -- Central Asia's most populous country -- to observe joint Russian-Uzbek m...
Afghanistan's elite special forces pushed to the brink
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
With the US troop presence in Afghanistan effectively over, an accelerated Taliban offensive has gobbled up vast tracts of rural territory and laid siege to cit...
How do the Afghan forces and the Taliban compare?
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
But analysts and officials said their military victory is far from guaranteed, pointing to the ability and resources of the Afghan defence forces, who remain in...
Afghan forces face intense Taliban test as foreign troops leave
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
It is not a conventional military engagement, but one that pits a large army -- raised and equipped by a superpower -- against a smaller but well-supplied jihad...
Afghan army urges civilians to evacuate city besieged by Taliban
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
A massive blast meanwhile rocked the capital Kabul on Tuesday evening, sending a thick plume of smoke into the sky, AFP correspondents reported, adding the expl...
NATO, on its way out, gives supplies to Afghanistan
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
"As we withdraw our forces from the country, we will continue to support Afghanistan, including with equipment to help the Afghan forces better provide for thei...
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