Afghanistan gov’t offers to share power with Taliban: Offi...
August 13 ,2021
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By: Ali M Latifi
A Taliban fighter patrols inside the city of Ghazni [Gulabuddin Amiri/AP]
The Afghanistan government has made a power-sharing prop...
Taliban neutralises the Afghan warlords
August 13 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif besieged by the Taliban, August 11, 2021
The...
Taliban takes control of airport in Afghanistan’s Kunduz,...
August 12 ,2021
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By: Shehesh Alex Philip
The Mi-24V attack helicopter seized by the Taliban | Twitter | @JosephHDempsey
One of the four attack helicopters supplied by Indi...
Taleban's swift advance leaves Germany struggling with cos...
August 12 ,2021
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By: Markus Ziener
German soldiers line up for the final roll call after returning from Afghanistan at the airfield in Wunstorf, Germany, on June 30, 20...
China tipped to push US on Afghan stability at Doha meetin...
August 12 ,2021
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By: Rachel Zhang
An internally displaced child from the northern provinces, who fled his home during fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security...
Taliban capture Afghanistan’s seventh provincial city
August 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
On Tuesday evening, the Taliban captured the capital of the northern province of Baglan, Pul-Khumri, and statements by the residents hi...
Regional approach to end-game
August 12 ,2021
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By: Zahid Hussain
AMID the escalating Taliban military blitz, officials from the US, Russia, China and Pakistan met in Doha Wednesday as part of an...
Western countries betraying their Afghan comrades
August 11 ,2021
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By: Jonathon Gornall
Former Afghan interpreters for the US and NATO forces gather April 30, 2021, during a demonstration in downtown Kabul, on the eve of...
US envoy in Qatar to press Taliban for end to offensive
August 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Biden administration is determined to stick to its plan to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of August despite the Taliban's r...
Six countries urge EU not to halt deportations of unsucces...
August 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Families who fled fighting in northern Afghanistan at a park in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug 9, 2021. PHOTO: NYTIMES
Six EU memb...
The delusion of peace in Afghanistan
August 11 ,2021
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By: Nirmal Ghosh
Afghan government forces now aided by warlords and increased American air strikes are fighting back. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
On Aug 3, as t...
Taliban kill Afghan radio station manager, kidnap journali...
August 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban fighters reportedly killed an Afghan radio station manager in Kabul and kidnapped a journalist in southern Helmand province, lo...
'Prolonged' Afghan civil war likely: former US envoy
August 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A prolonged civil war in Afghanistan is more likely than a rapid Taliban takeover as the United States' full military withdrawal nears,...
3 capitals in 3 days: Is the Taliban about to take over Af...
August 10 ,2021
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By: Andrew Korybko
The Taliban’s capture of three regional capitals in three days suggests that the group is about to complete its takeover of Afgha...
Spectre of Syria haunts Afghanistan
August 9 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Fencing of Durand Line is almost complete. Pakistani troops guarding the border with Afghanistan in Khyber
The Moscow daily V...
Pakistan shuts door to further Afghan refugees
August 9 ,2021
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By: Mifrah Haq
The crossings of Torkham, pictured here, and Chaman remain open for trade but the rest of the border with Afghanistan has been sealed...
The war in Afghanistan: How it started and how it is endin...
August 9 ,2021
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By: David Zucchino
A young militiaman in Balkh province last month.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
Just weeks before U.S. forces were...
The fight for Afganistan’s Cities
August 7 ,2021
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By: Michael Kugelman
Welcome to South Asia Brief.
The highlights this week: The Taliban storms Afghan cities and threatens civilians, a draft law...
I saw Afghan interpreters translate so much more than word...
August 7 ,2021
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By: Clive Lewis
Former interpreters for the US and Nato forces during a demonstration in Kabul at the start of the formal US troop withdrawal in May...
As Taliban advance, Biden officials cling to hope for Afgh...
August 7 ,2021
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By: Michael Crowley
Afghan security forces patrolled after they took back control of parts of the city of Herat following intense battles with the Taliba...
Biden administration non-committal on support for permanen...
August 7 ,2021
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By: Sriram Lakshman
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price in Washington. File photo | Photo Credit: REUTERS
U.S. says it does not supp...
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