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Blinken testifies at hearing about Afghanistan withdrawal

Fox31 Denver 11 Dec 2024
withdrawal from Afghanistan ... After a year of trying, a House committee got its chance to question Blinken about the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal ... left Afghanistan three years ago, a bombing at the airport killed 13 service members.
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China to empower south Punjab people

The News International 11 Dec 2024
As regards the refuge enjoyed by terrorist elements inside Afghanistan, the sources said the matter was being pursued properly by China with Afghanistan, both bilaterally and internationally.
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The Second Coming of Trump

Independent online (SA) 10 Dec 2024
By Armstrong Williams. November 5, 2024, is a day that will live in American glory ... To be sure, Trump was a flawed candidate ... Crime plunged ... President Joe Biden’s exit from Afghanistan was disastrous. American soldiers were killed at the Kabul airport ... .
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Top officer in Afghanistan promoted after senator drops hold

The Hill 03 Dec 2024
But Mullin has previously raised concerns that no one was held responsible for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw Afghans and Americans scrambling to leave the Kabul airport.
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Last US soldier to leave Afghanistan promoted to four-star General

Khaama Press 03 Dec 2024
troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and he was the last soldier to leave Kabul’s airport ... military withdrawal from Afghanistan, a suicide bomb blast occurred at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26, 2021.
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US Senate approves promotion of general involved in Afghanistan withdrawal

The News International 03 Dec 2024
... steps on board a C-17 transport plane as the last US service member to leave Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 30, 2021 in a photograph taken using night vision optics.
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Army general who oversaw Afghanistan withdrawal promoted to four-star officer after GOP senator drops hold

CNN 03 Dec 2024
... as the commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina, oversaw the final withdrawal from Afghanistan and was the last US soldier on the ground at Kabul’s international airport.
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WARMINGTON: 'Canadian Dave' missing in Kabul, pals believe he's alive

Canoe 03 Dec 2024
... special operations soldier — now a civilian exfiltration expert — disappeared near the same Kabul airport where he helped more than 100 Afghans escape to Canada during the 2021 fall of Afghanistan.
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Rebels and whistleblowers: a choice of recent crime fiction

The Spectator 03 Dec 2024
S ... As his source Rashid declares ... Ross Clark ... As the final chapters build to a violent crescendo, we feel Collins’s near-panic as he struggles to leave the country in an airport scene all too reminiscent of America’s exits from Vietnam and Afghanistan ... .
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EASA authorisation a ‘lifeline’ for struggling airline

The News International 30 Nov 2024
Crew members disembark from a Pakistan International Airways (PIA) flight at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan, September 13, 2021. — AFP. KARACHI ... In her post on X (formerly Twitter), EU Ambassador to Pakistan Riina Kionka said ... .
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Alone and unable to cook on Thanksgiving? This veterans group has got you covered

San Diego Union-Tribune 29 Nov 2024
... hangs near hand-written notes sent by troops in Afghanistan (“Thanks for the cookies”) ... On the back were names of service members killed in the 2021 airport bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Blinken agrees to testify on Afghanistan withdrawal after lengthy standoff

The News International 26 Nov 2024
The withdrawal, conducted less than seven months into Biden’s presidency, ended two decades of US involvement in Afghanistan but was marred by a deadly airport bombing and a disorderly evacuation.
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Blinken finally set to testify on Afghanistan pullout after months of resistance

New York Post 26 Nov 2024
... left Afghanistan ... Hundreds of people run alongside a US Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the withdrawal on Aug.16.
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GOP senator blames general for Afghanistan withdrawal ‘disaster,’ blocks his promotion to command Army forces in Europe

Stars and Stripes 25 Nov 2024
Donahue led the 82nd Airborne Division as it worked to secure Kabul’s airport during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and is best known for being the last U.S.
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Top Army officer arrested and charged after trying to take grenade through security at packed ...

The Daily Mail 24 Nov 2024
Lt Col Hugo Clark, who has served in Afghanistan and received an MBE honour in 2006, faces court action following an incident at Edinburgh Airport, it has been revealed ... Bomb squad officers were called to Edinburgh Airport (pictured) on October 16.

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