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19 Aug

Taliban Open Fire, Beat Up Women, Kids Outside Kabul Airport

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Taliban promised safe passage to the Kabul airport for people trying to flee the country, there have been incidents of violence at the checkpoints on airport roads. Photographs of women and children being beaten and whipped by the Taliban fighters have surfaced showing the brutal face of the insurgents. Reports of civilians – women and children – being beaten, houses being ransacked have been pouring in since August 15 – the day the Taliban seized control of capital Kabul. According to reports, the US troops who have taken over the control of the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul on…

18 Aug

Ex Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Taliban Leaders Meeting

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Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network terrorist group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by Taliban to set up government. According to sources Karzai was accompanied by the old government's main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, who declined to be identified.The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of the most deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. In the meantime,…

18 Aug

US probing deaths at plane takeoff in Kabul

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The US Air Force has said that its Office of Special Investigations is reviewing an incident at the Kabul airport on Monday in which multiple people were killed when hundreds of Afghan civilians were desperate to leave the country, swarmed a C-17 cargo plane as it was about to take off. The Air Force did not say anything about the number of people dead. It said that human remains were found in the plane's wheel well after it landed at al-Udeid Air Base in the Gulf state of Qatar. Videos of the incident, including images of people falling from the…

17 Aug

IAF plane with 120 Indians from Afghanistan lands at Jamnagar airbase

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On Tuesday, An Indian Air Force plane with 120 people landed at Jamnagar in Gujarat from Kabul in Afghanistan. The C-17 aircraft touched down at the IAF airbase at Jamnagar at 11.15 am, the official said. The aircraft had taken off from Kabul carrying Indian personnel as part of the emergency evacuation because of the prevailing situation in the Afghan capital following its takeover by the Taliban. Immediately after passengers on board the C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft deplaned, they were greeted by people present on the tarmac. Those on board included officials and security personnel from the Indian embassy in…

17 Aug

Russian embassy: Afghan leader fled with cars full of cash

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Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not fit in, the Russian Embassy in Kabul has said. "Four cars were full of money, they tried to stuff another part of the money into a helicopter, but not all of it fit. And some of the money was left lying on the tarmac," Nikita Ishchenko, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Kabul, was quoted as saying by RIA news agency. Ischenko confirmed his comments to a global news wire, citing…

16 Aug

UN to hold an emergency meeting on Afghanistan crisis

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On Monday morning at the request of Estonia and Norway, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Afghanistan crisis. Council diplomats said Sunday that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will brief council members on the latest situation following the Taliban takeover of the capital, Kabul. On Friday, the UN chief had urged the Taliban to immediately halt their offensive in Afghanistan and negotiate “in good faith” to stop a prolonged civil war. He also said he is “deeply disturbed by early indications that the Taliban are imposing severe restrictions in the areas under their control, particularly targeting women…

16 Aug

Taliban declare ‘war is over’ as president and diplomats flee Kabul

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The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan was over after insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled on Monday to evacuate their citizens.President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on Sunday as the Islamist militants entered the city, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed, while hundreds of Afghans desperate to leave flooded Kabul airport."Today is a great day for the Afghan people and the mujahideen. They have witnessed the fruits of their efforts and their sacrifices for 20 years," Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Taliban's political office, told Al Jazeera…

13 Aug

Taliban forcing women to marry its terrorists

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As the Taliban is gaining ground in Afghanistan by capturing many key cities in the country, the terror group is now forcing women to get married to its terrorists, a media report said on Thursday.Afghans are also witnessing the execution of captured soldiers and unprovoked attacks on civilians by the Taliban in its recent captured areas. Afghans pouring into Kabul and those still in Taliban-held areas say they have witnessed unprovoked attacks on civilians and executions of captured soldiers. In addition, they say, Taliban have demanded that communities turn over unmarried women to become "wives" for their terrorists-a form of…

12 Aug

UK Police To Review Prince Andrew’s Sexual Abuse Allegations

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Prince Andrew has been accused of sexually abusing a woman at the London home of an associate of Jeffrey Epstein's when she was under 18 over 20 years ago. Virginia Giuffre on Monday filed a claim in New York, alleging the late US financier Jeffrey Epstein regularly abused her and lent her out to "powerful men" for sex. She alleged the Duke of York sexually abused her at the London home of the convicted sex offender's associate Ghislaine Maxwell when she was under 18 over 20 years ago. Britain's most senior police officer on Thursday said detectives will re-examine allegations…

10 Aug

India played constructive role in Afghanistan, says Pentagon

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India has played a constructive role in Afghanistan in the past, the Pentagon acknowledged on Monday. “India has played a constructive role in Afghanistan in the past in terms of training and other infrastructure improvements,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters at his daily news conference. “That kind of work, that kind of effort to help Afghanistan maintain stability and good governance is always welcome,” he said when asked about India-US cooperation on Afghanistan. Responding to a question, Kirby said the United States continues to have conversations with Pakistani leadership about the safe havens that exist along that border…