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Secretary of State Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan after Biden announced plans to withdraw US troops from the country
Blinken wants to reassure the Afghan government that the US is still committed to the country, The …
Sinéad Baker
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who withdrew Russian troops from Afghanistan in 1989, said the American campaign was a 'failed enterprise from the start'
Gorbachev has acknowledged Moscow's own decade-long campaign in Afghanistan was a failed deployment…
Erin Snodgrass
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The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is chaotic, tragic, and necessary
Some have used the speed of the Afghan government's fall to argue that the US withdrawal was a mist…
Bonnie Kristian, Defense Prio…
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A Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Be 'A Complete Catastrophe' For Civilian Aid
Some UN agencies and private aid groups remained in Afghanistan during the chaos of the 1980s and 1…
Missy Ryan, Reuters
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Taliban forces seize Jalalabad, the fifth-largest city in Afghanistan
Jalalabad's governor surrendered the capital of Nangarhar to Taliban forces in order to avoid citiz…
Morgan Keith
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5 Parliament attacks across the globe that shook everyone
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince reportedly wants Afghanistan to use his private air force
The "turn-key" proposal to the Afghan government included pilots manning small propeller planes, he…
Paul Szoldra
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Top US general says 2 decades of brutal fighting in Afghanistan has achieved only a 'modicum of success'
"We believe now that after 20 years, two decades of consistent effort, that we he have achieved a m…
Ryan Pickrell,David Choi
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Facebook made niche exceptions to its Taliban ban, internal documents show
"We've allowed some content about the provision of essential public services in Afghanistan," a Fac…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Afghanistan wants the US to send the A-10 back to fight the Taliban
The numbers of weapons released by US combat aircraft in Afghanistan have hit highs not seen since …
Christopher Woody
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The US spent $133 billion to build up Afghanistan as part of a plan officials secretly called 'idiotic'
"Petty corruption is like skin cancer; there are ways to deal with it and you'll probably be just f…
Ryan Pickrell
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Ethereum's co-founder says crypto could play a larger role against an outdated Taliban regime in Afghanistan
Strong interest in crypto could soon be a reaction to the Taliban's overthrow of the Afghanistan go…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Brookings Fellow Sums Up Afghanistan Debacle In Two Short Paragraphs
The second - interrelated - mistake was to rely on problematic powerbrokers and never develop a rob…
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Taliban seizes $12.4 million from ex-officials as the cash-strapped militant group desperately looks for an influx of money
Afghanistan is facing a tremendous financial crisis and is strapped for cash just one month into th…
Jake Epstein
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Pompeo refused to sign a US-Taliban peace deal in a sign of how shaky it is
The Taliban is assured of its victory, TIME reports, telling followers that all foreign forces will…
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes
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The Taliban wants to speak at the UN General Assembly in New York as the official government of Afghanistan
The Taliban's foreign minister is contesting Afghanistan's seat, which has been given to the ambass…
Matthew Loh
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The Taliban just seized a provincial capital as the US continues its withdrawal. They also murdered an Afghan government official
US military leaders have said the 'strategic momentum' is with the Taliban, but a takeover is not a…
Ryan Pickrell
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Afghanistan's new interior minister heads a US-designated terror group and has a $10 million US bounty on his head
The militant group did not include any women in the interim government and has been cracking down o…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump endorses the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in freewheeling Cabinet meeting
The Soviet Union collapsed on December 25, 1991, and historians and foreign policy scholars have si…
John Haltiwanger
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The UK is considering making it illegal for Britons to go to Afghanistan over fears they may join Islamist terror groups: report
A person convicted of entering or remaining in designated areas could face a prison sentence of up …