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7/23/2023 8:37:38 PM
As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her fellow university students tried for days to get into the Kabul airport, only to be turned away by gun-wielding extremists.
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4/26/2023 6:50:00 PM
The US had no role in the Taliban's killing of the mastermind of the Islamic State suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport during the US pullout in 2021, the White House said Wednesday.
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2/7/2022 9:35:41 PM
The United States on Monday offered a $10-million reward for information leading to the "identification or location" of the leader of the Afghanistan regional chapter of the Islamic State group.
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12/23/2021 4:14:52 PM
A joint Turkish and Qatari delegation is traveling to Afghanistan to discuss plans for companies from their two countries to run Kabul's international airport in a partnership, Turkey's state-run news agency reported Thursday.
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12/6/2021 3:36:01 PM
Turkey and Qatar on Monday raised the possibility of jointly operating Afghanistan's Taliban-controlled airport, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off for two days of talks in Doha.
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9/15/2021 5:23:27 PM
Earlier this month, EU ministers debated creating a standby EU force of around 5,000 troops to deploy in crises like the one at Kabul airport
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9/14/2021 4:53:18 PM
A Pakistan International Airlines jet landed in Kabul Monday, marking the first international commercial flight since the US withdrawal
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9/11/2021 8:40:24 PM
The UAE is one of a number of Gulf states that have been key staging posts for evacuation flights for foreigners and Afghans, alongside Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain
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9/9/2021 2:39:18 PM
This step would also signal that US officials have come to an arrangement with the new Taliban rulers
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9/3/2021 8:31:55 PM
Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the evacuation effort despite the scenes of thousands of people jammed outside the gates at Kabul's airport
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9/2/2021 5:26:59 PM
Kabul's airport is now in Taliban hands but is closed, and Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani warned Thursday that there's still 'no clear indication' of when it will reopen
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9/2/2021 4:22:18 PM
Turkey has also been involved in the negotiations but has expressed concern over who will organise security for its personnel in the Afghan capital after the US troop withdrawal
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9/2/2021 12:11:38 PM
'We are working very hard (and) we remain hopeful that we will be able to operate it as soon as possible... hopefully in the next few days we will hear some good news,' he said
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9/1/2021 6:33:46 PM
`The lean winter season is fast approaching, and without additional funding, food stocks will run out at the end of September,' Ramiz Alakbarov, the local UN humanitarian coordinator said
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9/1/2021 1:42:07 PM
Talks are ongoing as to who will now run Kabul airport, which German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned was of existential importance as a lifeline for aid
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9/1/2021 11:44:06 AM
Photographs posted on social media showed dogs in an Afghan animal shelter and not animals under the responsibility of the US military, Kirby added on Twitter
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8/31/2021 7:10:28 PM
Attacks in the past week have shown the airport is a target for terrorists, so security is the primary concern
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8/31/2021 4:41:19 PM
The United States said Sunday it had destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle in an air strike, thwarting a bid by the Islamic State to detonate a car bomb at Kabul airport
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8/31/2021 4:16:11 PM
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8/31/2021 2:12:43 PM
'The airport is of existential importance for Afghanistan because without it no medical or humanitarian aid can get there either, which means it's also of the utmost importance for the work of the United Nations,' she said
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