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PublishedAugust 20, 2021
Taliban killings fuel fear, drive more chaos outside airport
Amnesty International provided more evidence Friday that undercut the Taliban's claims they have become more moderate since they last ruled Afghanistan.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2021
Biden pledges to Americans in Kabul: ‘We will get you home’
The president included Afghans who aided the the war effort in his promise Friday. In Afghanistan, limited helicopter rescues were underway.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
U.S. struggles to speed Kabul airlift despite Taliban, chaos
A State Department spokesman said 6,000 people were cleared for evacuation Thursday and were expected to board military flights.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
Taliban suppress more dissent as economic challenges loom
Many Afghans fear a return to the Taliban's harsh rule in the late 1990s, when the group largely confined women to their homes, banned television and music, chopped off the hands of suspected thieves and held public executions.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
Our View: Afghan refugees should be welcomed to Maine
Gov. Mills should join the state chief executives who are publicly offering support for the people whose lives are at risk because they helped U.S. forces.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Father of first American killed: Afghanistan end ‘shameful’
Much of the work his son and others did in Afghanistan has been undone, he said, but that doesn't make their contributions meaningless.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
In Taliban’s 7-day march to power, a stunning string of wins
Just a week before Afghanistan’s collapse, things looked staggeringly different.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Biden: Troops will stay in Afghanistan to evacuate Americans
President Biden says he’s committed to keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan until every American is evacuated, even if that means maintaining a military presence there beyond his Aug. 31 deadline for withdrawal.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Taliban militants violently disperse rare Afghan protest
The attack in Jalalabad comes as many Afghans are hiding at home or trying to flee the country as allegations of abuses by the loosely controlled militant organization grow.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Maine Voices: Meeting our moral obligation to Afghans in peril will take swift, decisive action
Immediate evacuation is essential to avoiding the kinds of atrocities we’ve seen elsewhere when leadership failed.
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