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Indian Americans hold candlelight vigil across US to honor soldiers killed
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 30 (ANI): Indian Americans across the US held a candlelight vigil to honour the 13 US troops killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport as their remains arrived at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday morning.
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250 Americans still trying to leave Afghanistan: State Department
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 30 (ANI): Around 250 Americans are still trying to leave Afghanistan with just days left before a Tuesday deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from the nation, said US State Department on Sunday (local time).
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US Embassy urges Americans to leave vicinity of Kabul airport due to threa
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 29 (ANI): The US Embassy in Afghanistan is urging Americans to leave the Kabul airport area because of a specific threat in Afghanistan.
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Kabul blasts: President Biden pledges to strike back, says US won't alter
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 27 (ANI): US President Biden on Thursday (local time) vowed the United States will carry out strikes against the group responsible for the bombings that killed a dozen Americans.
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Second explosion reported in Kabul, near hotel where Americans gathered
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 26 (ANI): A second explosion struck Kabul on Thursday near a hotel in Afghanistan's capital, where US citizens were gathering to be evacuated, Fox News reported.
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Taliban agreed to allow Americans, at-risk Afghans to leave after August 3
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 26 (ANI): The Taliban has committed to ensuring safe passage for Americans and at-risk Afghans to leave the war-torn country after the August 31 US withdrawal deadline, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday (local time).
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Two members of US Congress secretly fly to Afghanistan on 'fact-finding tr
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 26 (ANI): Two members of US Congress secretly travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan, as the US evacuates tens of thousands of Americans and vulnerable Afghans after the country fell to the Taliban.
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Around 1500 Americans still await evacuation from Afghanistan, says Blinke
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 26 (ANI): The United States has evacuated 4500 out of 6000 American citizens identified in Afghanistan, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday (locale time), adding an estimated 1,500 Americans are still waiting to be evacuated from the war-torn cou
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Congressmen draw flak for Kabul airport visit amid US evacuation effort
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 25 (ANI): Two US congressmen made an unannounced trip to Kabul on Tuesday to "provide oversight" to the mission to evacuate Americans and its allies and to pressure President Joe Biden to extend the August 31 deadline for US military drawdown.
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US aims to complete evacuation from Afghanistan by August 31
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 24 (ANI): The Biden administration on Monday (local time) said that it is aiming to evacuate all Americans from Afghanistan by August 31.
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Three US Army CH-47 helicopters pick up 169 Americans outside Kabul airpor
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The US military used three CH-47 "Chinook" helicopters to bring 169 Americans to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson tweeted.
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Biden says Afghan evacuation 'most difficult airlift' in history
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): Terming the evacuation from Afghanistan the 'most difficult and largest airlift' ever in the history, US President Joe Biden on Friday assured to get all Americans and allies out of the war-torn country.
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