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A former Foreign Office diplomat suggested that out of an estimated 75,000-150,000 people who applied for evacuation under the Leave Outside the Rules scheme, fewer than 5% received assistance. Photo: Evacuees from Kabul on their way to Poland via Uzbekistan. Marcin Obara / EPA-EFE 09 December 2021 | Brad K. Blitz | The Conversation The testimony of a whistleblower…
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While the movement’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has downplayed the threat, saying this week that Islamic State had no effective presence in Afghanistan, commanders on the ground do not dismiss the threat so lightly. Photo: A screen grab shows an emergency vehicle as people arrive at a hospital after an attack at Kabul airport, in Kabul,…
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Former prisoners return to the now-abandoned US-run Bagram jail, which was notorious for ‘enhanced torture.‘ Photo: Hamza recounts the torture he endured during his imprisonment at Bagram [Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera] All Photos: Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera 22 September 2021 | Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska | Al Jazeera Bagram, Afghanistan – Hajimumin Hamza walks through a long, dark corridor and…
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Photo: Screenshot: US detention centre at Bagram airbase 13 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Sky News has seen inside the detention centre where thousands of suspected militants were held during the War on Terror in Afghanistan. Bagram Airbase is now under the control of the Taliban, and we saw, that what they…
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Speaking to Al Jazeera, acting PM Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund reiterates Taliban promise of amnesty for anyone who worked alongside the US and the gov’t it backed. Photo: Akhund: ‘The stage of bloodshed, killing and contempt for people in Afghanistan has ended’ [File: Sayed Khan/AFP] 08 September 2021 | Staff | Al Jazeera English Afghanistan’s…
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Amid upheaval across the country, it remains unclear whether a new government will forbid music as it did 25 years ago Photo: Sitar practice at the Afghan National Institute of Music in 2013. Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP 05 September 2021 | Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian The shutters have been down all along Kharabat Street, the storied…
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02 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Okay, on the surface it is a small thing. But here are people frantic to withdraw money -their money- from the local banks in Afghanistan. And presumably, the Taliban’s forces have been dispatched to keep order, but the manner in which they shove and push and…
Twelve countries are accepting US local staff, including Albania, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Ukraine, Uganda and Colombia. Photo: An Afghan girl sits in the transit area at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany 28 August 2021 | Jan D. Walter | DW The US’ first local Afghan…
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Photo: Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent and the author of the memoir On All Fronts.Brent Swails/CNN 26 August 2021 | TERRY GROSS | NPR (Audio version also available on this page) CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward can’t stop looking at the bruise on her arm. It’s a reminder of her harrowing escape last…
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Given that someone somewhere had to authorize both the landing and the takeoff of this charter flight we are left with the feeling that we were not supposed to hear about this. 25 August 2021 | MYCHAEL SCHNELL | The Hill Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of the security contractor previously known as Blackwater, is…
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It has been reported that when the US troops ‘abandoned’ the massive Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan in early July, left behind about 3.5 million items Photos: Kanika Gupta / TRTWorld 19 July 2021 | KANIKA GUPTA | TRT World It has been reported that when the US troops ‘abandoned’ the massive Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan…
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Photos: Pigeons fly as a policeman guards residents praying outside the Shah-e Doh Shamshira mosque during the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr in Kabul on Aug. 30, 2011. Photo by Erik de Castro/Reuters Some people are wondering if the ‘coup’ of Afghanistan by the Taliban will eventually be considered to be just…
