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- Business Insider 00:26June 25, 2021A US Air Force Ghostrider gunship crew received awards for saving 88 lives with nearly 2 hours of non-stop fireThe heavily armed gunship poured fire on the enemy, clearing the way for helicopters to rescue wounded troops.
< Military & Defense, International, US Air Force, AC-130J Ghostrider, Distinguished Flying Cross, Afghanistan > - Modern Tokyo Times 11:33June 22, 2021Upon Leaving the Wild, Wild East in AfghanistanUpon Leaving the Wild, Wild East in Afghanistan by Phyllis CheslerIPT News Investigative Project on Terrorism In the history of the world, no foreign power has ever occupied or been able to remain in this landlocked and remote country in central Asia. The Persians, the Mongols, the British, the Russians – all were unable to […]
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< America, Asia, Geopolitics, Terrorism, Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Taliban, IPT News, Lisa Curtis, Phyllis Chesler, Phyllis Chesler and Investigative Project on Terrorism, Takfiri killers, Taliban stone women to death, Upon Leaving the Wild, Wild East in Afghanistan > - New York Times 10:00June 22, 2021Attacked and Vulnerable, Some Afghans Are Forming Their Own ArmiesWith U.S. troops leaving, the Taliban advancing, and a steady collapse of security force bases and outposts, the Hazara and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan are raising militias.
< Hazaras (Ethnic Group), Afghanistan War (2001- ), Afghan National Security Forces, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Taliban, Dostum, Abdul Rashid, Massoud, Ahmad (1989- ), Afghanistan, Wardak (Afghanistan) >
- Breitbart News 02:46June 22, 2021United Nations Applauds Biden Bringing 4X More Refugees to U.S. as TrumpThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is praising President Joe Biden's plan to bring four times as many refugees to the United States this year as former President Trump had planned.
< Immigration, Politics, Afghanistan, Joe Biden, legal immigration, mass immigration, refugee resettlement, refugees, Trump, United Nations >
- New York Times 23:24June 20, 2021Taliban Enter Key Cities in Afghanistan’s North After Swift OffensiveThe setbacks come at a harrowing moment for Afghanistan, just as American and international troops are set to leave the country in coming weeks.
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- Time 18:28June 19, 2021Afghanistan Running Out of Oxygen as COVID-19 Surge WorsensAfghanistan's is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen
< Uncategorized, Afghanistan, COVID-19, wire > - New York Times 20:54June 17, 2021Elite Afghan Forces Suffer Horrific Casualties as Taliban AdvanceAt least 24 commandos were killed in one battle in the Afghan north, and that kind of stark loss is playing out across the country: “We mourn. The Taliban celebrate. And it hurts too much.”
< Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan War (2001- ), Afghan National Security Forces, Taliban, Afghanistan, Faryab Province (Afghanistan), Helmand Province (Afghanistan), Zabul Province (Afghanistan) >
- Breitbart News 20:43June 11, 2021Exclusive — Rep. Reschenthaler Blasts Ilhan Omar: ‘Antisemite Who Hates America, American Troops — No Place Serving in Congress’In an exclusive statement made to Breitbart News on Thursday, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after the congresswoman equated the United States and Israel to Hamas terrorists and the Taliban, going so far as to describe her as unfit to serve in Congress.
< Israel / Middle East, Media, Politics, Afghanistan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, antisemite, Brad Schneider, Cori Bush, Guy Reschenthaler, Hamas, Ilhan Omar, Israel, Jamaal Bowman, Mo Brooks, Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, Speaker Pelosi, Taliban >
- Business Insider 22:37June 10, 2021AOC rips into fellow Democrats for taking Ilhan Omar's comments on the US and Israel's potential war crimes out of contextOmar, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, has repeatedly had her comments on foreign affairs taken out of context by other lawmakers.
< Politics, International, News, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, antony blinken, International Criminal Court, Israel, Hamas, Afghanistan, Taliban > - New York Times 18:39June 10, 2021As U.S. Withdraws, Afghan Interpreters Fear Being Left BehindA program to bring people employed by the American military to the United States is backlogged, with thousands of applicants denied.
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- Business Insider 06:52June 10, 2021US considers preparing for airstrikes to support Afghan forces if there's a risk of the Taliban taking over Kabul, report saysThe discussions echo concerns that Afghan forces will struggle to contain the Taliban once US ground forces are withdrawn on September 11.
< Military & Defense, News, Afghanistan, Afghanistan airstrikes, Afghan Military, Taliban, Pentagon, Airstrikes > - Breaking Defense 13:01June 9, 2021Help The Afghan Air Force To Blunt Taliban AttacksAt the NATO Summit in Brussels, the United States should finalize a plan with its allies to ensure the Afghan air force has the maintenance and logistical support it requires to remain combat effective. The United States and our international partners have worked for years to build an Afghan air force capable of providing effective…
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- New York Times 08:51June 9, 2021Attack in Afghanistan Kills 10 From Charity That Clears Land MinesThe government blamed the Taliban for the attack on the British-American charity, the HALO Trust. The militant group denied any responsibility.
< Afghanistan, Mines, Explosive, Deaths (Fatalities), Terrorism, Halo Trust, Great Britain, Afghanistan War (2001- ) >
- Breaking Defense 21:50June 8, 2021DoD Readies Counterterror Plan For Post Afghanistan Withdrawal“Our budget accounts for ‘over the horizon’ requirements — it creates some space there as we determine what that will look like,” DepSec Kathleen Hicks said.
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- Breaking Defense 19:31June 7, 2021NATO SecGen Defends Afghan WithdrawalWhile training in-country will end, “we are looking at how we can provide training outside Afghanistan,” said Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “We can train Afghan forces in other countries.”
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- New York Times 18:28June 3, 2021‘Find Him and Kill Him’: An Afghan Pilot’s Desperate EscapeThreatened by the Taliban and considered AWOL by the Afghan military, a decorated helicopter pilot fled for the United States with his wife and daughter.
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- Business Insider 01:43June 3, 2021The US military likely killed 23 civilians in 2020, according to a new report from the Defense DepartmentApproximately 10 civilians were also injured in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Nigeria, according to the annual report.
< Military & Defense, Defense Department, U.S. Military, Pentagon, civilian casualties, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria > - New York Times 12:00May 31, 2021A Siege, a Supply Run and a Descent Into a Decade-Old Battle‘Do you have body armor?’ the Afghan pilot asked us as we prepared for a trip to outposts surrounded by the Taliban.
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- The Guardian(UK) 09:41May 31, 2021More Afghans who worked for British forces to resettle in UKGovernment will step up scheme saving interpreters and others from reprisals as international troops leaveMoves to relocate to the UK hundreds of Afghans who worked for the British military and government will reportedly be accelerated as foreign forces leave the country.The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy was launched this year, allowing the Afghans, who mostly worked as interpreters, to settle in Britain. More than 1,400 Afghans and their families have already relocated to the UK, and hundreds more received funding for education and training. Continue reading...
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- Business Insider 18:21May 29, 2021Kamala Harris becomes the first woman to deliver a US Naval Academy commencement addressHarris spoke of the immense challenges that graduates would face, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and cybersecurity threats.
< Politics, Military & Defense, Kamala Harris, US Naval Academy, Defense, Cybersecurity, Afghanistan War, COVID-19 pandemic, commencement address, Women And Leadership, President Joe Biden > - The Guardian 05:25May 29, 2021Taliban threaten Afghan security guards who work for Australian embassy in KabulGuards say their work for Australia has made them and their families targets for retributionThe Taliban have publicly threatened Afghan security guards who have worked for the soon-to-be-shut Australian embassy, circulating pictures of them online and warning they would be targeted for cooperating with a foreign government.The Australian government announced this week that it was shutting its embassy in Kabul, citing “an increasingly uncertain security environment” and saying its diplomats would not be safe “in light of the imminent international military withdrawal from Afghanistan”. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 10:00May 27, 2021A Wave of Afghan Surrenders to the Taliban Picks Up SpeedDozens of besieged outposts or bases, and four district centers, have given up to the insurgents this month, in an accelerating rural collapse as American troops leave.
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- Business Insider 02:38May 27, 2021Calls grow louder for Biden to evacuate Afghan allies who helped US military ahead of US withdrawalAfghan activists and former US national security officials are calling for vulnerable people to be evacuated.
< Military & Defense, Politics, International, Afghanistan, Refugees, Joe Biden, original reporting > - New York Times 00:34May 26, 2021Pentagon Accelerates Withdrawal From AfghanistanAmerican troops are set to be out by early to mid-July, well ahead of President Biden’s Sept. 11 deadline, even as big issues remain unresolved.
< Afghanistan War (2001- ), United States Defense and Military Forces, Afghan Air Force, Afghan National Security Forces, Al Qaeda, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Taliban, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Milley, Mark A, Trump, Donald J, Afghanistan, United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government, Defense Department >
- Guardian 18:26May 25, 2021Battle station: the celebrity podcast that explains modern warfareCarey Mulligan on Syria, playwright James Graham on the Troubles … the Imperial War Museums’ new podcast brings celebrities and experts together to understand recent armed strugglesComedian and author Deborah Frances-White is sitting at a table, in the shadow of a Spitfire which soars above her head. She is being interrogated on everything she knows about one of the most violent conflicts in recent decades. What comes to mind when she thinks of the Yugoslav wars? “I think of words like Milošević, Serbo-Croatia, Bosnia … I think there’s a star on the flag?” she flounders. “I remember there was a Time magazine cover with a man at the end of the war.”Frances-White is in the hot seat because she is a guest on Conflict of Interest, a new podcast from the Imperial War Museums (IWM) – the Spitfire above her head is hung from the ceiling of its London museum’s atrium, and her interrogator is Carl Warner, the IWM’s head of narrative and curatorial. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 07:30May 20, 2021Climate disasters ‘caused more internal displacement than war’ in 2020Refugee organisation says 30m new displacements last year were due to floods, storms or wildfiresIntense storms and flooding triggered three times more displacements than violent conflicts did last year, as the number of people internally displaced worldwide hit the highest level on record.There were at least 55 million internally displaced people (IDPs) by the end of last year, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Continue reading...
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- New York Times 12:00May 17, 2021In Taliban-Controlled Areas, Girls Are Fleeing for One Thing: an EducationTwo districts in Afghanistan’s northwest offer a glimpse into life under the Taliban, who have completely cut off education for teenage girls.
< Women and Girls, Education (K-12), Afghanistan War (2001- ), Taliban, Dostum, Abdul Rashid, Afghanistan, Jowzjan Province (Afghanistan) >
- Time 19:11May 16, 2021Afghanistan Cease-Fire Ends Amid Calls for Fresh Peace TalksThe U.S. has been pressing for accelerated talks as it withdraws the last of its 2,500-3,500 soldiers
< Uncategorized, Afghanistan > - The Guardian 09:48May 16, 2021Afghanistan: fighting resumes in south after three-day ceasefire for EidTaliban and government forces clash in Helmand, the scene of intense battles following US troop withdrawalFighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces has resumed in the southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring sides to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday.There were clashes on Sunday on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, which has seen intense fighting since the United States began its final troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on 1 May, an Afghan military spokesperson and a local official said. Continue reading...
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- Modern Tokyo Times 09:13May 15, 2021Sunni Islamists in mosque attack in Afghanistan: Imam killedSunni Islamists in mosque attack in Afghanistan: Imam killed Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Another brutal Sunni Islamist terrorist attack killed at least 12 people inside a mosque in Afghanistan. Of course, violence in recent decades in Afghanistan is nothing new. However, it highlights the fear that persists in Afghanistan because […]
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< America, Asia, Geopolitics, Miitary Conflict, Terrorism, Female students killed, Female students killed in Afghanistan, Islamists kill girls, Islamists kill students, Japan news agency, Killing of girls, Lee Jay Walker, Modern Tokyo News, Modern Tokyo Times, Murad Makhmudov, Muslim cleric killed in mosque attack, Muslim imam killed in mosque attack, Sectarianism in Afghanistan, sunni islamic terrorism, sunni islamic zealots, Takfiri Islamist killers, Takfiri killers, Tokyo news agency, Year Islamist zero > - Modern Tokyo Times 09:13May 15, 2021Sunni Islamists in mosque attack in Afghanistan: Imam killedSunni Islamists in mosque attack in Afghanistan: Imam killed Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Another brutal Sunni Islamist terrorist attack killed at least 12 people inside a mosque in Afghanistan. Of course, violence in recent decades in Afghanistan is nothing new. However, it highlights the fear that persists in Afghanistan because […]
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< America, Asia, Geopolitics, Miitary Conflict, Terrorism, Female students killed, Female students killed in Afghanistan, Islamists kill girls, Islamists kill students, Japan news agency, Killing of girls, Lee Jay Walker, Modern Tokyo News, Modern Tokyo Times, Murad Makhmudov, Muslim cleric killed in mosque attack, Muslim imam killed in mosque attack, Sectarianism in Afghanistan, sunni islamic terrorism, sunni islamic zealots, Takfiri Islamist killers, Takfiri killers, Tokyo news agency, Year Islamist zero > - New York Times 16:14May 14, 2021Spy Agencies Seek New Allies in Afghanistan as U.S. WithdrawsThe move signals an acknowledgment by Western intelligence agencies that they are preparing for the likely collapse of the central government and a return to civil war.
< Afghanistan War (2001- ), Espionage and Intelligence Services, Central Intelligence Agency, Northern Alliance, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Terrorism, September 11 (2001), War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Massoud, Ahmed Shah >
- Business Insider 23:33May 13, 2021America's shadow army is leaving Afghanistan tooThe thousands of US contractors sent overseas were a massive experiment in how Uncle Sam could lean on the private sector help it wage war.
< Military & Defense Contributors, Military & Defense, Responsible Statecraft, News Contributor, Afghanistan, Afghanistan withdrawal, military contractors > - New York Times 14:13May 13, 2021A City Under Siege: What the War Looks Like on Afghanistan’s Front LineAs bullets from a Taliban machine gun ricocheted through the street below, an Afghan soldier wearing an “I Heart Kabul” T-shirt took a brief rest. “There has been fighting day and night.”
< Afghanistan War (2001- ), United States Defense and Military Forces, Afghan National Security Forces, Taliban, Afghanistan, Helmand Province (Afghanistan), Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan) > - New York Times 12:00May 13, 2021A City Under Siege: What the War Looks Like on Afghanistan’s Front LineAs bullets from a Taliban machine gun ricocheted through the street below, an Afghan soldier wearing an “I Heart Kabul” T-shirt took a brief rest. “There has been fighting day and night.”
< Afghanistan War (2001- ), United States Defense and Military Forces, Afghan National Security Forces, Taliban, Afghanistan, Helmand Province (Afghanistan), Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan) > - New York Magazine 14:00May 12, 2021U.S. Is Leaving Afghanistan? Tell That to the Contractors.American security and defense firms are capitalizing on the withdrawal, moving in with hundreds of new jobs.
< afghanistan, joe biden, 9/11, politics > - The Guardian 07:00May 12, 2021British troops were twice as likely to be killed in Afghanistan as US forcesExclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that looks at the scale of the sacrifice made by Nato allies over the course of the 20-year war.The UK also gave more to Afghanistan than the US in the form of economic and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of GDP, the study published on Wednesday by the Costs of War project at Brown University found. Continue reading...
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- Breaking Defense 22:25May 10, 2021Afghanistan: Army Angst Over Uncertainty On Post-Pullout Demands“What’s that going to mean from an operational perspective?” acting secretary John Whitley asks. “What’s that going to mean from a budgetary perspective?”
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- The Guardian 05:02May 10, 2021Taliban declares three-day Eid ceasefire after Afghanistan school bomb attacksGroup denies involvement Saturday bombing which killed dozens of people, mainly young girls, outside their secondary schoolThe Taliban has declared a three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan to mark this week’s Eid al-Fitr holiday, just two days after the government blamed the group for bombs outside a school that killed more than 50 people, mostly young girls.“Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are instructed to halt all offensive operations against the enemy countrywide from the first till the third day of Eid,” a statement released by the insurgents on Monday said. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 22:58May 9, 2021‘Why Do We Deserve to Die?’ Kabul’s Hazaras Bury Their Daughters.A bomb attack that killed scores of schoolgirls, members of a long-persecuted minority, offered still more evidence that Afghanistan may be on the verge unraveling.
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- Time 17:10May 9, 2021Death Toll Soars to 50 After School Bombing in Afghanistan CapitalThe number of wounded in Saturday's attack climbed to more than 100, said Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian
< Uncategorized, Afghanistan, wire > - The Guardian 15:06May 9, 2021Afghans bury their dead after dozens of girls killed in school blastsTaliban deny responsibility after secondary school targeted in bloody attack in KabulDozens of young girls were buried on Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year.A series of blasts outside the school during a peak holiday shopping period killed more than 50 people, mostly female students, and wounded more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a west Kabul suburb populated mostly by Hazara Shiites. Continue reading...
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- Business Insider 12:22May 9, 2021Girls targeted in bomb carnage at school that left 55 dead in Afghan capital, KabulMost of the casualties were female students aged between 11 and 15 years old, who were leaving school at the time.
< Military & Defense, News, UK Weekend, News UK, Afghanistan, school, Attack, Kabul, Islamic State, Taliban, Shia Muslims > - Modern Tokyo Times 19:53May 8, 2021Sunni Islamists in Afghanistan kill many female studentsSunni Islamists in Afghanistan kill many female students Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Another brutal Sunni Islamist terrorist attack, targeting a Shia district in the environs of Kabul, is known to have killed at least 40 people in Afghanistan. Many of the dead include students after an explosion devastated an area […]
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< Asia, Geopolitics, Religious Persecution, Terrorism, Female students killed, Female students killed in Afghanistan, Islamists kill girls, Islamists kill students, Islamists kill students in Afghanistan, Japan news agency, Killing of girls, Killing of students, Lee Jay Walker, Modern Tokyo News, Modern Tokyo Times, Murad Makhmudov, Sectarianism in Afghanistan, sunni islamic terrorism, sunni islamic zealots, Takfiri Islamist killers, Takfiri killers, Tokyo news agency, Year Islamist zero > - The Guardian 17:37May 8, 2021Explosion near school in west Kabul kills at least 25 peopleBlast in Afghan capital injures at least 52 people, with no cause known for explosionAn explosion near a school in Kabul has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more, the interior ministry said.Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said at least 52 people, most of them students, were injured in the blast in the Afghan capital. He did not specify the cause or the target of the explosion. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 17:34May 8, 2021Bombing Outside School Kills at Least 20 in AfghanistanStudents were among the casualties. The attack came at the end of a particularly violent week in the country, and amid growing concerns about the looming American troop withdrawal.
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- Time 17:18May 8, 2021Bomb Kills at Least 25 People Near School in Afghanistan Capital(KABUL, Afghanistan) — A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, many them young students, Afghan government spokesmen said. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said ambulances were rushing to the scene of the blast near Syed Al-Shahda school, in the Shiite majority neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi. Angry crowds…
< Uncategorized, Afghanistan, wire > - Business Insider 15:32May 7, 2021Afghanistan is being overrun by crystal meth as US begins withdrawalEphedra Sinica, which contains the key ingredient for making crystal meth, grows wild in Afghanistan's mountains.
< News, Military & Defense, News-freelancer, Meth, meth addiction, Drugs, Military, Defence, Afghanistan, Heroin, Iran, Turkey > - The Guardian 08:22May 7, 2021US deploys extra warplanes to protect its troops withdrawing from AfghanistanF-18 attack planes and B-52 bombers can be called on to protect departing forces, amid expected increase in Taliban activityThe United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster protection of American and coalition troops making a final withdrawal from the country as Taliban insurgents step up pressure on Afghan government forces, top Pentagon officials have said.General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said F-18 attack planes had been added to a previously announced package of air and sea power – including the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the North Arabian Sea and six air force B-52 bombers based in Qatar – that can be called upon as protection for withdrawing troops. Also part of that previously announced package are several hundred Army Rangers. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 12:00May 6, 2021Afghans Fleeing Home Are Filling the Lowliest Jobs in IstanbulAfter years working on American bases in Afghanistan and fearful of the Taliban, Afghans are heading to Turkey and Europe.
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