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Jun 22 2015
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Taliban Attack Afghan Parliament In Kabul
Authorities were eventually able to repel the attack killing all of the Taliban militants. More than a dozen civilians were also hurt in the attack.
NPR (Online News)Apr 15 2024
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CENTCOM review finds no evidence Abbey Gate suicide bomber was seen by Marine snipers beforehand
Following a new supplemental review of the Abbey Gate suicide bombing that left 13 American service members dead during the chaotic Afghan withdrawal in 2021, U.S. Central Command found the Marine sniper team at Abbey Gate did not have the suicide bomber in its sights prior to the attack. The review, released Monday, included interviews with 50 additional eyewitnesses who were present or had
Fox News (Online News)Sep 19 2021
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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
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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 PressAug 31 2021
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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
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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
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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 NewsAug 20 2021
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Internal State Department Cable Warned of Kabul Collapse
An internal State Department memo last month warned top agency officials of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after the U.S.’s Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline in Afghanistan, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the document.
The classified cable represents the clearest evidence yet that the administration had been warned by its own officials on the ground that
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 26 2021
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Joe Biden vows retaliation for Kabul airport attack
The pace of evacuation flights out of Kabul accelerated today after a double suicide-bomb attack that killed 13 US troops and 72 Afghans – the deadliest day for US troops in more than a decade.
Joe Biden addressed the masterminds behind the attack in an update to the nation yesterday, telling them: “We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
The bombs – reportedly a car bomb and a
The GuardianAug 16 2021
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As Taliban enter Kabul, Afghanistan president flees country
Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.
The Taliban fanned out across the capital, and a group of fighters entered the presidential palace in Kabul. Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman and
Christian Science Monitor