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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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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
‘Everybody is facing a dark future’: Afghans in the U.S. struggle to evacuate family, friends
The Department of Defense intends to evacuate 22,000 Afghans with special immigrant visas, as well as their relatives, but the pace so far has been slow.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Bill Nemitz: Where Maine soldiers once tried to do the impossible, the Taliban now rule
For the Maine Army National Guard's Bravo Company, the fall of Afghanistan is a cautionary tale.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
U.S. agencies scrub websites to protect Afghans left behind
In some of the now-disabled Agriculture Department posts, several contained details that would clearly be viewed by the Taliban as proof of collaboration, such as names and photos.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Afghan collapse follows 20 years of U.S. missteps, watchdog says
On Tuesday, a special inspector general released a report highlighting the poor understanding America had of Afghanistan from the very beginning.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Taliban agree to allow ‘safe passage’ for U.S. airlift from Kabul, Pentagon says
The goal was to ramp up to hourly evacuation flights by Wednesday, with potentially a total of 5,000 to 9,000 evacuees leaving per day, the spokesmen say.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Taliban vow to respect women, despite history of oppression
Older generations remember the Taliban’s ultraconservative Islamic views, which included severe restrictions on women as well as public stonings and amputations.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Our View: Afghan collapse was decades in the making
Blame Biden for the chaotic withdrawal, but not for a 20-year war with no real end in sight.
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