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Feb 08 2022
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Documents reveal U.S. military’s frustration with White House, diplomats over Afghanistan evacuation
Senior White House and State Department officials failed to grasp the Taliban’s steady advance on Afghanistan’s capital and resisted efforts by U.S. military leaders to prepare the evacuation of embassy personnel and Afghan allies weeks before Kabul’s fall, placing American troops ordered to carry out the withdrawal in greater danger, according to sworn testimony from multiple commanders
Washington PostApr 22 2018
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Suicide bomber strikes voter registration center in Afghan capital, 31 killed
A suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least 31 people, officials said.
Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majro said another 54 people were wounded in Sunday's attack, updating an earlier toll. Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said the suicide bomber targeted civilians who had gathered to receive national
USA TODAYAug 18 2021
Analysis
4 Reasons A Taliban Takeover In Afghanistan Matters To The World
Helicopters evacuating Americans from Kabul as the Taliban closed in was a scene likened to the 1975 fall of Saigon in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
Afghanistan's U.S.-trained forces appeared to readily collapse in the face of a concerted push by Taliban forces. Names and places that became familiar to Americans during their country's long involvement there — including
NPR (Online News)Aug 16 2021
Opinion
The fall of Afghanistan in 2021 is the result of years of American delusion
On Sunday morning, Taliban fighters captured Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield — the symbol and source of U.S. power projection in the region for 20 years — releasing thousands of prisoners. Within hours, Taliban fighters were trickling into the city center with little resistance. The Taliban had already swept in and captured the capital city of Kabul. By nightfall, President Ashraf Ghani had fled
MSNBCAug 13 2021
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Afghanistan updates: Cities fall to Taliban at striking speed as crisis intensifies
The State Department will begin reducing its staff levels at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the Pentagon will send troops in to help facilitate those departures, as Taliban forces advance on more provincial capitals.
There wasn't any specific event that led President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to execute the plan, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Thursday
ABC News (Online)Sep 14 2021
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Taliban deny their deputy prime minister, Mullah Baradar, is dead
The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul.
Sulail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of the Taliban political office who was named deputy prime
ReutersOct 14 2021
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Marine officer who posted videos criticizing Gen. Milley, other military leaders faces court-martial
A Marine lieutenant colonel who was thrown in the brig for posting videos in which he criticizes the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior military leaders for their roles in the Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty to multiple charges at his court-martial Thursday, his attorney said.
Lt. Col. Stu Scheller is charged with disrespecting superior commissioned officers
NBC News (Online)Sep 08 2021
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Biden Asks Congress For $30 Billion To Help Disaster Relief And Afghan Evacuees
President Biden is asking Congress for billions in additional funding to help with natural disasters and aid for Afghan evacuees.
The White House wants $24 billion in additional funding to help recovery efforts for the California wildfires and several hurricanes, including Hurricane Ida. Biden administration officials are also asking for $6.4 billion to help with resettling vulnerable
NPR (Online News)Sep 02 2021
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U.S. official: 'Majority' of Afghan allies who applied for special visas left behind in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official said Wednesday that it appeared a “majority” of Afghans who had worked for the U.S. military and applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) had not been successfully evacuated and remained in Afghanistan.
“I don't have an estimate for you on the numbers of SIVs and family members who are still there,'' said the senior official, who was in
NBC News (Online)Sep 01 2021
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California school district says roughly 27 students stuck in Afghanistan after evacuation ends
A school district in Sacramento County, California said they have approximately 27 students stuck in Afghanistan after U.S. evacuation efforts ended on Monday.
The San Juan Unified School District said the students come from 19 families, though the number of students left in Afghanistan continues to fluctuate as more information comes in.
"We believe that some of these families
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