Hill [Washington DC],
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Mychael Schnell
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Uzbekistan is warning the U.S. that Afghan pilots trained by American forces who fled to the Central Asian country after the Taliban took over in Afghanistan may face expulsion. Hundreds of Afghan service members fled to Uzbekistan aboard dozens of U.S.-supplied planes and helicopters, along with families and colleagues, after the Taliban seized control of the capital city of Kabul earlier this month. Uzbekistan, however, is now urging the U.S. to extract those Afghan pilots to a different country to avoid clashes between them and the Taliban, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing officials. Uzbekistan has continued relations with the
USA Today,
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Matthew Brown
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WASHINGTON – U.S. forces in Afghanistan are engaged in a fast-paced final drawdown of military forces and evacuation of civilians as America withdraws from its longest war. Biden administration officials have repeatedly said the U.S. will fully leave Afghanistan by the Aug. 31 deadline. As of 3:30 p.m. EDT, it is midnight Aug. 31 in Afghanistan, leaving the American military 24 hours to exit.
“Obviously, we are reaching the end of our prescribed mission,” Army Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor told reporters on Monday at the Pentagon. Many details of the American withdrawal from the country are being concealed due to
Washington Examiner,
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Byron York
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There was some discussion on Twitter recently about whether President Joe Biden nodded off during an Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. After the talk spread, some journalists, like CNN factchecker Daniel Dale, pushed back. "This 'Biden asleep' stuff is nonsense ," Dale tweeted on Saturday. But here's the thing. Watch Biden's public appearance with Bennett on this C-Span video . The president appeared exhausted, just as he appeared exhausted a day earlier when he delivered remarks on the deaths of 13 American military men and women killed by a suicide bomber during
Fox News,
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Brandon Gillespie
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A Washington Post column published Sunday was slammed by critics for blaming the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan on the American people, rather than the actual perpetrators of the violence unfolding across the war-torn country. "If you ask me who is to blame, I would point not only to Biden but to former president Donald Trump — and to all of us, the people of America. By carrying out this pell-mell withdrawal from Afghanistan, our leaders, after all, were only giving us what we wanted," columnist Max Boot wrote. (Tweet) "There are recriminations aplenty, but the sad fact is that the only
Daily Mail (UK),
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Ruth Styles
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Marine Nicole Gee sent a series of texts to her sister before deploying to Afghanistan telling her not to worry - and saying she hoped the mission would be ‘successful and safe.’ Nicole, 23, was one of 13 service members – and one of two female Marines - who died in a suicide blast at Kabul Airport Thursday alongside 170 desperate Afghans seeking to leave their beleaguered country. Speaking in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, her older sister Misty Fuoco, 25, of Citrus Heights, California, said her sister would text her regularly from Kabul to tell her how ‘amazing’ her
CNN Politics,
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Jason Hoffman
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The US, along with about 100 other countries, said they will hold the Taliban to their promises that they will allow people to leave the country after August 31, according to a joint statement released Sunday. "We are all committed to ensuring that our citizens, nationals and residents, employees, Afghans who have worked with us and those who are at risk can continue to travel freely to destinations outside Afghanistan. We have received assurances from the Taliban that all foreign nationals and any Afghan citizen with travel authorization from our countries will be allowed to proceed in a safe and
Hill [Washington DC],
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Lauren Vella
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LGBT Afghans are facing an existential threat under the Taliban, whose previous reign in the country two decades ago saw violence against marginalized groups. Members of the LGBT community in the country who spoke to The Hill via text message, using pseudonyms for personal safety, described widespread and constant fear following the swift Taliban takeover. Many have been forced into hiding after the deaths of family and friends, killings they say came at the hands of the militant group. “The Taliban have specific group[s], they are searching the LGBT Afghans...they will kill us if they find us,” a gay Afghan
Business Insider,
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Joshua Zitser
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The Taliban killed a popular Afghan folk singer just days after the group said it hoped to ban music from being played in public in Afghanistan, according to a former minister. Fawad Andarabi was "brutally killed" on Saturday, said Masoud Andarabi, who was the Interior Minister under former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in a Twitter post. He was reportedly dragged from his village home in Andarab, near the Panjshir Valley, before being shot dead, according to LBC News. "Today they brutally killed folkloric singer, Fawad Andarabi who was simply brining [sic] joy to the valley and its people," Masoud Andarabi
ABC News,
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Quinn Scanlan
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With fewer than 4 in 10 Americans approving of President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan, there is overwhelming bipartisan support for keeping U.S. troops in the country until all Americans and Afghans who aided the United States during the 20-year war have been evacuated, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. (Snip) More than 8 in 10 (84%) Americans think U.S. troops should remain in the country until all Americans are evacuated, and just over 7 in 10 (71%) think they should stay until all Afghans who helped the United States are evacuated as well. Breaking from the typical polarization
Mirror [UK],
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Matthew Dresch
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Kabul has been rocked by an explosion hours after the UK's final flight left Afghanistan. Early reports suggest the blast took place near Kabul airport, with two witnesses claiming it appeared to be a rocket attack. Footage shared by freelance journalist Shafi Karimi on Twitter shows black smoke rising from a house in Kabul. He tweeted that the home is near the city's airport and was hit with a rocket. A Health Ministry source also said they believed a rocket had hit a house near the airport, according to the BBC. Residents reported hearing a 'large explosion', however the cause
USA Today,
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Gabriela Miranda
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Restaurants and businesses across the country are choosing to reserve a table and 13 beers to honor the service members who died during Thursday's bombing near Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport. Ironwood Cafe in Ohio said the news hit close to home – Maxton "Max" Soviak is a native of Milan, Ohio and was among the fallen. "My husband, grandfather and many in my family served. So, when I read that one of Ohio's own died, I knew I wanted to make a small gesture to honor Max and the 12 other soldiers," Shannon Vasquez, general manager of the cafe told
Reuters,
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Vladimir Soldatkin
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MOSCOW - Russian anti-aircraft missile troops have arrived in Belarus with a mission of establishing a training centre in the city of Grodno near the border with Poland and Lithuania, the Belarus Defence Ministry said on Saturday. The move is likely to add to tensions between Belarus and its neighbours, Poland and Lithuania, countries it accuses of meddling in its affairs by hosting exiled opposition leaders and refusing to recognise Alexander Lukashenko's victory in last year's election. Lukashenko's critics say the vote was rigged, which he denies. Belarus' Defence Ministry said on social media that the decision to set up joint
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Heartbreaking story about a wonderful young woman.