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Taliban take over 3 gates at Kabul’s airport

Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua |  The U.S. and coalition forces have handed over control of three gates, including the entrance to the military section, of Kabul’s airport, to Taliban members, a Taliban official told local media Sunday. “The U.S. troops are in control of a small part of the airport, …

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UK ends civilian evacuation mission in Afghanistan

London, UK | Xinhua |  The final evacuation flight purely for civilians under Britain’s Operation Pitting has left the Kabul airport, the British Ministry of Defense said Saturday. Any further flights leaving Kabul under Britain’s evacuation operation “will have UK diplomatic and military personnel on board,” the ministry added. General …

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Police pick up DPA journalist from Afghan evacuees hotel

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Ugandan journalist Henry Wasswa Lumanyika is detained at Entebbe Police Station on charges of Criminal Trespass, after allegedly interviewing Afghan evacuees. Wasswa,  a senior correspondent with Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), the German Press Agency,) was arrested on Thursday by security officers at Imperial …

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Iran condemns Kabul’s deadly terrorist attacks

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iran’s spokesman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saeed Khatibzadeh, on Friday condemned the recent deadly terrorist attacks at the Kabul airport, the ministry’s website reported. He expressed condolences over the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan which happened a day ago, Khatibzadeh was quoted as saying. He …

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We don’t have Ugandans working in Afghanistan – Labour export companies

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Labour export companies have said that there are no Ugandans working in Afghanistan. Many Ugandans have been working in the central Asian country over the years, having gone through different arrangements, according to the Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA). The association’s head of …

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Isolated resistance continues amid Taliban’s efforts to form gov’t

Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua | Resistance against the Taliban has been continuing in Panjshir’s neighboring Andarab area of the northern Baghan province while Taliban is trying to form a government in the war-torn Afghanistan. In the latest development, Taliban forces have captured Andarab’s Banu, Deh Salah and Pul-e-Hisar districts of the northern …

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Deaths at Kabul airport

American Air Force investigating after civilian die in scramble for evacuation plane | THE INDEPENDENT | The U.S. Air Force is investigating the civilian deaths that unfolded Monday Aug.16 at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, where some Afghans fell from a military C-17 transport plane mid-air after leaving the …

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