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After 9/11: Life in Afghanistan after the attacks
After 9/11 the Americans invaded Afghanistan and easily overthrew the Taliban, who had harboured Al Qaeda, that carried out the attacks. But after that nothing was easy.
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Thousands of Afghan refugees already stuck in UK asylum system
While the government has pledged to welcome up to 20,000 Afghans who’ve fled the Taliban over the next five years, some 3,000 people from Afghanistan have been stuck in the UK’s asylum system for years.
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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: Queen, PM and politicians need to help women evacuate, says former Afghan MP
The Afghan MP interviewed in Paraic O’Brien’s report was Maryam Koofi. Earlier today, we spoke to her sister, Fawzia Koofi, a former MP and women’s rights activist who was held under house arrest by the Taliban. She escaped and is in Doha. We asked her whether she was in touch with her colleagues who hadn’t…
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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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British Afghans call on western nations for support in London rally
Hundreds of British based Afghans – many of whom escaped Taliban rule more than twenty years ago – joined a rally in central London
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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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‘Now we would trusting the US and UK, but now they left us’, says former refugee who survived Grenfell
Flora Neda and her husband, an Afghan army officer, fled the Taliban in 1996. Two decades later he died in the Grenfell fire, after staying to help four women who took refuge in their top floor flat.
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‘Simply unforgivable that we’re leaving any interpreters behind’, says former British Army major-general
We were joined by Charlie Herbert, a former British Army major-general, who has been trying to save Afghan interpreters from the Taliban.
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Afghans in UK fear for relatives left in Afghanistan
We hear from one Afghan man, now living in the Midlands.
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Afghanistan: Evacuation of interpreters ‘an abject failure’, says former British Army major-general
We spoke to Charlie Herbert, the former British Army major-general, who is trying to save Afghan interpreters from the Taliban.
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Afghanistan: Biden refuses to extend deadline to withdraw US troops
The message from the Taliban today was clear – all foreign troops have to leave by Tuesday next week. Joe Biden wouldn’t budge from that deadline either, despite calls from other G7 leaders for a delay to allow more people to be evacuated.
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Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi on her ‘lucky’ escape from Kabul
The evacuation deadline is felt keenly by those racing to get friends and family out of Kabul.
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Afghanistan: Seven further deaths at Kabul airport as thousands wait to escape
Another seven people have been killed in the panicked scenes around Kabul airport, with tens of thousands of people still desperate to escape Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan: US advises citizens to avoid Kabul airport amid crush reports
Thousands of people are still crowded outside the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, fearing time is running out to escape the Taliban.