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Kabul: Suicide bomb blast kills at least 19 people at education centre
A suicide bomber has killed 19 people and injured dozens more at an education centre in Afghanistan where teenage girls were sitting an exam.
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‘Shocked and scared’: Afghan photojournalist remembers day Taliban entered Kabul
A total of 21,000 people have been brought to the UK from Afghanistan, according to the Home Office.
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Pets before people? – These Afghans say animals were taken from Kabul to the UK ahead of them
It was a row over cats and dogs that became a political scandal. Last summer, animal rights campaigners chartered a plane to transport vets and animals to the UK from Kabul. But only the animals made it out and the plane left without the Afghans despite having 229 empty seats.
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Whistleblower evidence of Kabul evacuation ‘deeply disturbing’, says shadow foreign secretary
A former diplomat has claimed that many Afghans were abandoned to their fate at the hands of the Taliban during a “chaotic” and “dysfunctional” evacuation.
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Afghanistan: At least 25 killed in attack at military hospital in Kabul
At least 25 people have been killed and dozens of others were injured after an attack at the entrance to a military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul.
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Afghanistan: Several dead in Kabul mosque blast
Several civilians are thought to have died in the blast, the biggest attack in the city since local Islamic State extremists targeted the mass evacuation at the airport more than a month ago.
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Afghanistan: Taliban did not expect to take over Kabul so soon
We spoke to the man who has become the public face of the Taliban in Kabul, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. We asked him why, in the light of all these urgent problems, three weeks after entering Kabul, they still haven’t formed a government?
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Afghanistan: Pakistan intelligence chief arrives in Kabul, as fighting continues in Panjshir Valley
Heavy fighting has been taking place in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley where militia fighters claim they’re holding out against Taliban forces overnight, amid premature rumours that the Taliban had captured the territory.
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Afghanistan: Female MPs hiding from Taliban and trapped in Kabul
After the rapid withdrawal from the forever war, now comes the resettlement of the people who fled.
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US airstrike in Kabul targets suicide bomber
The US claims it’s averted another “imminent threat” to Kabul airport
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Final UK evacuation flight for civilians leaves Kabul
The final UK flight taking civilian evacuees out of Afghanistan has now left Kabul airport.
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Afghanistan: Biden pledges to ‘hunt down’ Kabul airport bombers
The White House has just warned the next few days of the evacuation mission will be the “most dangerous period to date” – just four days before the United States deadline to complete its withdrawal.
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Kabul explosions are ‘president’s worst nightmare’, says former US secretary of defence
We are joined now by the former CIA chief Leon Panetta, who also served as US defence secretary under President Obama.
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Kabul explosions: UK will continue evacuation effort despite ‘barbaric’ attack, says PM
Boris Johnson has said British evacuations would continue despite what he called the “barbaric” airport attack.
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Kabul explosions: Former Afghan minister’s tearful plea for UN to intervene in ‘proxy war’
One of the many thousands of people who’ve fled the country is Nargis Nehan, a former minister with the Afghan government and a women’s rights activist.
