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I fled Afghanistan 18 months ago with my brother and sister – we haven’t seen ...

Metro UK 19 Mar 2023
It was August 2021 and the Taliban were taking over in Afghanistan. We were at Kabul airport trying to get on a flight out of the country ... Some of my aunts and uncles live in the UK and they were actually on holiday in Afghanistan at the time ... But they said if I went to be with them, I wouldn’t get back into the airport.
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‘We have no choice and no voice’ Since the Taliban retook Afghanistan 18 months ago, ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2023
Her family were due at Afghanistan’s top business university for a ceremony at the restored Darul Aman Palace near the capital, Kabul ... My brother came home and told us that our neighbour, an Afghan army general, had told him the Taliban had taken Afghanistan and he was leaving to go to the airport.’.
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ISIS could hit Western interests in Europe and Asia from Afghanistan within SIX MONTHS as ...

The Daily Mail 17 Mar 2023
ISIS-K is generally considered to be an international problem, having attacked foreign targets, in the bombing of Kabul airport as well as in separate attacks on Chinese citizens in Afghanistan ... Ghafari is believed to sign off on all ISIS-K attacks in Afghanistan, including the ...
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ISIS could hit US, West from Afghanistan in ‘under 6 months’: General

New York Post 17 Mar 2023
afghanistan ... Michael Kurilla told the Senate Armed Services Committee that ISIS-K could attack American assets abroad as early as this summer.AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib ISIS-K was responsible for the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport amid the US military pullout of Afghanistan in 2021.Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images.
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ISIS in Afghanistan Capable of Overseas Attacks, Says US Commander

Khaama Press 17 Mar 2023
The terrorist group carried out four high-profile attacks from December-January 2022, hitting Afghanistan’s foreign ministry, the military section of Kabul’s airport, the Pakistani embassy, and a hotel housing Chinese guests, according to the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project.
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ISIS in Afghanistan capable of foreign attacks in 6 months, CENTCOM commander says

Stars and Stripes 16 Mar 2023
was at war in Afghanistan and Iraq ... The terrorist group carried out four high-profile attacks from December 2022 to January, hitting Afghanistan’s foreign ministry, the military section of Kabul’s airport, the Pakistani embassy and a hotel housing Chinese guests, according to the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project.
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Marine injured in Kabul airport bombing recounts ‘catastrophic’ US withdrawal from Afghanistan at House hearing

Egypt Independent 14 Mar 2023
Washington CNNUS Marine Corps Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews can remember in specific detail the moment that a suicide bomber attacked Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate in August 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan ... “We looked in horror as our screens filled with images of violence and desperation outside the gates of Kabul airport.
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Visiting Hong Kong from the UAE, what are my visit visa options? 3 situations explained

Gulf News 14 Mar 2023
Nationals from these 20 countries will need to hold a valid visa when visiting HKSAR, including those who are in transit and stay at the airport. ... Afghanistan ... passports) need to hold a valid visa when visiting HKSAR, including those who are in transit and remain at the airport..
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Absent 'friends': What Ukraine could learn from a new report about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Sott 12 Mar 2023
The vast fighting force, constructed at a cost of $90 billion over 20 years, seemed to vanish even faster than the American aircraft escaping Kabul airport.
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Marine hurt in Kabul bombing recounts chaotic US withdrawal

Dawn 10 Mar 2023
Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was critically injured at the Kabul airport blast on Aug 27, told the Republican-led hearing on the evacuation from Afghanistan that he was thrown four feet onto the ground but instantly knew what had happened ... International Airport.
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'Surreal': Marine sniper describes attack that killed 183 during US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Yahoo Daily News 09 Mar 2023
WASHINGTON – A Marine Corps sniper stationed at the Kabul airport the day of a deadly suicide attack wept on Wednesday as he described in horrific detail the chaos and bloodshed surrounding the U.S. military’s hectic withdrawal in the final hours of the war in Afghanistan ... A deadly suicide attack in Afghanistan ... The US is out of Afghanistan.
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Father of fallen Wyoming Marine: I knew I was lied to

Rapid City Journal 09 Mar 2023
The father of a Wyoming Marine killed in a 2021 suicide bombing in Afghanistan hopes Wednesday’s congressional hearing on the Kabul airport attack will lead to accountability ... McCollum was in Afghanistan on his first deployment when the evacuation began and was apparently manning a checkpoint at the airport in Kabul when the bomb went off.
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Afghan betrayal: Marine snipers had suicide bomber in their sights, could not get permission to take him out

Hot Air 09 Mar 2023
military’s hectic withdrawal in the final hours of the war in Afghanistan ... A sniper living out of an airport tower, Vargas-Andrews saw thousands of people approach the airport attempting to leave Afghanistan — mothers carrying dying infants, others suffering from heat exhaustion.
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Crackdown on migrants ‘will endanger lives of Afghans who helped UK,’ says British forces interpreter

Metro UK 09 Mar 2023
Coalition forces evacuate a child at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan (Picture ... But Rafi Hottak, a former translator for the UK army in Afghanistan, said it meant ex-colleagues who have not been given the sanctuary here they were promised would be left at the mercy of Taliban militants.
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Former US sniper says commanders ignored warnings about Kabul airport bomber

The National 09 Mar 2023
A former US Marine Corps sniper who was gravely injured in a suicide attack outside Kabul airport during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan said on Wednesday that he and his team had a chance to shoot the bomber — but were never given permission to do so ... Afghanistan is world's most repressive country for women and girls, UN says.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 20, 2023.
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