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...
Ruling, opposition parties on collision course after land...
August 7 ,2021
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By: Anil Giri
Sher Bahadur Deuba looks set to overturn many of the Oli government’s decisions. Post File Photo
The Sher Bahadur Deuba gove...
Russia boosts arms supplies to Central Asia amid Afghan ma...
August 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Russia has increased arms and military hardware supplies to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan amid fighting in Afghanistan, Interfax news agenc...
Indian-Taliban tensions might spell trouble for the Afghan...
August 7 ,2021
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By: Andrew Korybko
The Taliban’s latest condemnation of India for its unsolicited comments about the upcoming talks in Doha and New Delhi’s al...
Afghan economy on verge of collapse as US troops depart
August 6 ,2021
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By: Kanika Gupta
An Afghan Army soldier inspects a junkyard filled with destroyed American equipment in Bagram, Afghanistan on July 2. (Photo by Kanik...
Fleeing the Taliban: Afghans met with rising anti-refugee...
August 6 ,2021
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By: Liz Cookman
Durdana and her family in a people-smuggler’s house in the centre of Van, Turkey
It was a journey that had taken weeks, and...
US supporting Taliban, designing plots in region, says for...
August 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Former Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In an explosive claim, former Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejadsaid that the...
Taliban tells China what it wants to hear on ETIM
August 6 ,2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan supported by the ETIM takes part in a protest by...
As the U.S. withdraws, Afghanistan’s neighbors must step u...
August 5 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Members of an internally displaced Afghan family who have fled the fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces arrive in the...
Korybko’s response To Hoodbhoy: Security dilemmas ruined A...
August 5 ,2021
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By: Andrew Korybko
Mr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, an Islamabad-based physicist and writer, published a piece in Dawn on 31 July titled “Who messed up Afghanis...
Turkey rejects ‘irresponsible decision’ taken by US on Afg...
August 5 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey will not accept the “irresponsible decision taken by the US” regarding Afghan refugees, a spokesperson for the Turki...
Taliban commander on brink of capturing Afghan city was fr...
August 5 ,2021
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By: Ben Farmer
Afghan Special forces patrol a deserted street during fighting with Taliban fighters, in Lashkar Gah
The Taliban commander leading...
Afghanistan may be a middle ground for Saudi-Iranian rival...
August 5 ,2021
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By: Dr. James Dorsey
Boasting an almost 1,000-kilometer border with Iran and a history of troubled relations between the Iranians and Sunni Muslim militants...
How do Afghanistan forces and Taliban compare?
August 5 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan security personnel and Afghan militia fighting against Taliban, stand guard in Enjil district of Herat province [File: Hoshang...
Significance behind China-Taleban meeting
August 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) meets Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan's Talib...
If Afghanistan descends into chaos, Pakistan will feel the...
August 4 ,2021
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By: Maleeha Lodhi
File photo of Pakistan PM Imran Khan | Facebook/Imran Khan
As concern grows in Pakistan about the fallout of the deteriorating sec...
US ready to take in more Afghan refugees – but won’t help...
August 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan security officials outside Jalalabad. The US ready to take in thousands more Afghans whose US links put them at risk from...
Afghan President: Taliban have turned more 'cruel’ in 20 y...
August 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (file photo) Photograph:( Reuters )
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has reiterated that Talib...
Why Turkey wants to be in charge of securing Kabul airport
Turkey is in a prime position to provide security to Afghanistan’s main airport in the post-US era, write Basit and Ahmed [File...
We cannot stand by and watch Afghanistan collapse
August 4 ,2021
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By: Kai Eide and Tadamichi Yamamoto
The past few months in Afghanistan, even by the standards set by two decades of war, have been especially calamitous.
Since April, whe...
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