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News Articles: Afghanistan

Taliban fighters search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the road in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan in August.

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  • World

At-Risk Afghans Who Fear The Taliban Hunker Down And Wait To Leave

Those huddled in their homes and in safe houses around Kabul include activists, employees of the collapsed Afghan government and women.

August 24, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Afghan Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Tianjin, China, on July 28.

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  • World

Here's What A Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan May Mean For China

What Beijing has offered the Taliban so far is an open hand and a hint of legitimacy. Taliban leaders have pledged to leave Chinese interests alone and not to harbor anti-China extremist groups.

August 23, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • John Ruwitch
An illustration containing COVID virus bodies.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Politics And Pandemic As Georgia Reaches High Rate Of New Infections

Monday on Political Rewind: Virus cases continue to rapidly escalate in Georgia. As of Friday, there were 6,820 newly reported cases. Are the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the spiraling COVID numbers going to turn swing voters against Democrats in the 2022 midterms?

August 23, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Crowds at airport in Afghanistan

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  • News

Afghan Georgians ‘Hopeless’ after Taliban Takeover Of Kabul

GPB News spoke with half a dozen Afghans living in Georgia. Each described a feeling of utter pain and hopelessness fearing for friends and loved ones more than 7,400 miles away in Afghanistan as it falls under Taliban control. 

August 23, 2021
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hold a joint news conference in Singapore Monday, Aug. 23, 2021.

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  • World

The Focus Must Stay On Evacuations, Not On The Exit From Afghanistan, Harris Says

The vice president spoke at a news conference in Singapore alongside Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who offered the use of his country's air force to assist with evacuations.

August 23, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • World

"Unknown Attackers" Have Killed An Afghan Soldier At Kabul Airport

The German military says one Afghan security officer was killed and another three wounded Monday in an early morning firefight.

August 23, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure at Boston Logan International Airport in July. American is one of six airlines the Pentagon is turning to for assistance with the Afghan evacuation effort.

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  • Asia

The Pentagon Is Calling On 6 U.S. Airlines To Help With The Afghan Evacuation Effort

The military is asking for 18 airplanes, but says the passenger jets will not fly into or out of Kabul. Instead, they'll be used to ferry passengers from temporary safe havens outside of Afghanistan.

August 22, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Mistich
Taliban fighters patrol through Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Pictures of such fighters posing with captured aircraft, weapons and vehicles have been showing upon social media.

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  • World

How Valuable Are The U.S. Weapons The Taliban Just Captured?

In a scene repeated across Afghanistan, retreating government forces ditched billions of dollars' worth of U.S.-supplied military hardware, from assault rifles to Black Hawk helicopters.

August 21, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Myre and
  • Scott Neuman
Zalmai Yawar is a Ph.D. candidate in geology at Indiana University. He was Scott Simon's translator during a reporting trip in Afghanistan in 2002.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Numb From Afghanistan's Losses

Host Scott Simon shares the reaction of Zalmai Yawar, an Afghan who first served as a translator for NPR 20 years ago, to the country's return to Taliban control. Yawar now lives in the U.S.

August 21, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Simon
Taliban fighters mobilize to control a crowd during a rally for Afghanistan's independence day in Kabul on Aug. 19. The Taliban seized control of the city this week, effectively capturing the country in a matter of weeks.

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  • Investigations

The Afghan Army Collapsed In Days. Here Are The Reasons Why

The U.S. military spent years training Afghan soldiers to fight insurgents. Yet in a matter of days, the Afghan National Army collapsed, and the Taliban captured the country. What went wrong?

August 21, 2021
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Monika Evstatieva
Nurses feed newborn babies rescued and brought to Ataturk National Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 15, 2020, after their mothers were killed in an attack on a maternity ward operated by Doctors Without Borders. The health-care nonprofit runs clinics and hospitals in various parts of the country.

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  • Global Health

Afghanistan's Health Care Is In 'Limbo' Following Taliban Takeover, Says MSF Rep

Filipe Ribeiro of Doctors Without Borders Afghanistan talks to NPR about the future of the country's health care system under Taliban rule.

August 20, 2021
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Patrick Jarenwattananon,
  • and 1 more
Taliban rally in Kabul, October 1996.

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  • World

A Look At Afghanistan's 40 Years Of Crisis — From The Soviet War To Taliban Recapture

Afghans have lived through Soviet and U.S. invasions, civil war, insurgency and a previous period of heavy-handed Taliban rule. Here are some key events and dates from the past four decades.

August 19, 2021
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By:
  • Hannah Bloch
Afghan women gather to protest claims of human rights violations of women by the Taliban regime.

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  • Global Health

The Phone Call That Made An Afghan Woman Doctor Flee

She practiced medicine in Mazar-e-Sharif. She wanted to serve her country. Her story offers a window into what the Taliban takeover may hold for Afghanistan's women.

August 19, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
U.S. soldiers stand guard along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul Aug. 16, 2021.

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  • Movies

Our Film Critic Explores Why The Harrowing Afghanistan Images May Feel Familiar

Bob Mondello reflects on the portrayal and the despair of Afghanistan's story, as shown on film for decades — in The Man Who Would Be King, Rambo III, Charlie Wilson's War, Zero Dark Thirty and more.

August 19, 2021
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
GPB News NPR

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  • Asia

The Future Of The Afghan Girls Robotics Team Is Precarious

The teenagers made headlines when they came to Washington in 2017 for an international competition. Today they face a uncertain future with the Taliban again in charge of their homeland.

August 19, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Myre
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