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Aug 17 2022
News
Dozens injured in Kabul after explosion at mosque
Many are feared to be dead or injured after a huge explosion struck a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, during prayers on Wednesday.
Reuters reports there were multiple casualties, but police did not say how many.
On Twitter, Kabul’s Emergency Hospital said it received 27 patients wounded in the blast, including five children.
Witnesses told Reuters the powerful explosion
NewsNation
Aug 27 2021
News
Horror in Kabul is political disaster for Biden
President Biden promised the United States would not suffer a “Saigon moment” as it withdrew from Afghanistan.
The reality has proven even bleaker.
The attacks committed around Kabul’s airport on Thursday are a human tragedy. They are also a political catastrophe for the president.
At least 13 U.S. personnel have been killed and 15 wounded. The death toll among Afghans
The Hill
Aug 17 2021
Analysis
Biden Must Answer For The Disaster In Kabul
No one is debating the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The question is, why did the withdrawal devolve into a horrifying disaster?
I left for a weekend mountain-climbing trip early this past Saturday, blissfully out of cell range and cut off from the outside world for nearly two full days.
That Friday evening before I left, there were reports that the security
The Federalist
Nov 13 2022
News
The Taliban In Afghanistan Is Still Preventing Girls From Getting Above A Sixth-Grade Education, So This Kabul Resident Is Running A Secret School
She was only able to put them off for so long until there she was, inside a police station in Kabul being interrogated by the Taliban. Sodaba Nazhand knew she had to be careful — not only was her personal safety at risk, but so was a clandestine operation she had started just months ago.
Nazhand’s operation involved something that wouldn’t typically be considered illegal: teaching. But
BuzzFeed News
Feb 11 2020
News
Suicide attack in Kabul kills several
A suicide attack targeting a military academy has killed at least six people in Kabul early on Tuesday, in what was the first major assault in the Afghan capital in months.
Along with the six - two civilians and four military personnel - killed, 12 other people, including five civilians, were wounded in the attack, said Nasrat Rahimi, the Ministry of Interior spokesman.
Al Jazeera
Sep 19 2021
News
Pentagon Says Kabul Drone Strike Was A ‘Tragic Mistake’
The Pentagon admitted it made a “tragic mistake” after 10 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Kabul. Top officials acknowledged the error on Friday, saying the strike killed three adults and seven children and not ISIS-K terrorists as originally reported.
The target believed to be linked to the terrorist group turned out to be an innocent aid worker. Reports said military
One America News Network (OAN)
Sep 09 2021
News
Scores of Westerners, including Americans, fly out of Kabul
Some 200 foreigners, including Americans, left Afghanistan on a commercial flight out of Kabul on Thursday, the first such large-scale departure since U.S. and other forces completed their frantic withdrawal over a week ago.
The Qatar Airways flight to Doha marked a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. A dayslong standoff over
Associated Press
Aug 31 2021
Analysis
Stranded in Kabul: A U.S. Resident Runs Out of Options
WASHINGTON — For more than a week, Samiullah “Sammy” Naderi, a U.S. legal permanent resident, waited days and nights with his wife and son outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, hoping to be let in so that they could leave on one of the dozens of daily flights headed to America.
“It’s 50 feet away,” Mr. Naderi, 23, said Sunday night in a short telephone interview, speaking in
New York Times (News)
Aug 27 2021
News
Gruesome videos emerge following Kabul airport bombings
Gruesome videos showing scores of bloody, apparently lifeless bodies lining a drainage ditch surfaced on social media following Thursday’s twin bombings outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Some of the people shown in the unconfirmed recordings were lying face-down in the filthy water, while others, who appeared seriously wounded, were sitting and seemed to be waiting for help.
New York Post (News)
Aug 26 2021
News
Final evacuations resume after deadly Kabul attacks
US-led evacuations from Kabul airport in Afghanistan enter final stage, following devastating twin bomb attacks
The attacks targeted people queuing to flee the country after Taliban militants returned to power
Ninety people have been killed - mostly Afghan civilians and 13 US military personnel
US President Joe Biden has promised to hunt down the perpetrators, jihadist
BBC News