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Sweden to reduce number of staff at Kabul embassy due to safety concerns
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden] August 14 (ANI): Sweden will reduce the number of staff at its embassy in Kabul due to safety concerns as the Taliban is inching closer to the capital of Afghanistan after capturing over half of the 34 provincial capital.
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Afghanistan likely to plunge into civil war after Taliban's victory: Exper
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): A Taliban's victory does not mean a "better future" for Afghanistan as there could be local outbreaks of civil war and insurgencies against the terror group, said political commentator Harlan Ullman.
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Afghanistan would never be in 'dire situation' if Pak has not supported Ta
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): Afghanistan would never be in such a "dire situation" if Pakistan had not taken the decision to support, co-opt and control the Taliban, said a US-based scholar Michael Rubin, as the terror group races to take control of entire Afghanistan by force.
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Canada to accept 20,000 vulnerable Afghans as Taliban blitz continues
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], August 14 (ANI): Canada on Friday (local time) announced it is expanding a program to resettle 20,000 Afghan refugees amid Taliban onslaught in Afghanistan.
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Switzerland to withdraw 3 remaining staff from Kabul 'as soon as possible'
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Zurich [Switzerland], August 14 (ANI): Switzerland will withdraw its three remaining staff in Kabul "as soon as possible" as the security situation in Afghanistan worsens, said the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday (local time).
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Afghanistan spinning out of control, says UN chief as he urges all parties
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], August 14 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday noted that fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces is causing "tremendous harm" and called on all parties to take heed of conflict's devastating impact on civilians.
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US 'concerned' with Taliban's rapid advances, says terror group trying to
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): The United States on Friday said it is "certainly concerned" by rapid Taliban advances in Afghanistan, adding that the terror group is trying to isolate Kabul as they have "taken over border crossing, highways and major intersections to control lines of comm
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Pak parliamentary panel urges government to investigate 'kill list' shared
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] August 14 (ANI): A Parliamentary committee of Pakistan on Friday urged the country's government to undertake an investigation against the so-called 'kill list' shared by the former spokesperson of a Pak-based terrorist group that contain the names of several public figur
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'Vast bulk' of evacuation of UK embassy staff, officials from Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], August 14 (ANI): Underlining that situation in Afghanistan has "deteriorated", British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday (local time) apprised that there would be the "vast bulk" of the evacuation of UK embassy staff and officials from the war-torn country in the next fe
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Afghan refugees in Delhi worried about family, friends as Taliban captures
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): With the Taliban gaining ground in Afghanistan and advancing towards Kabul, the Afghan nationals who flew to India over the years are "extremely worried" following unprovoked attacks on civilians and executions of captured soldiers.
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Over half of Afghanistan's provinces fall to Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): Taliban has toppled six provincial capitals in the past 24 hours which brings the total number of provinces fallen to the terrorists to 18, local media reported on Friday.
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Afghan govt to continue fight against Taliban: Amrullah Saleh
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 13 (ANI): Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Friday informed that the government has decided to continue the fight against the Taliban.
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