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"Will Try To Save Them": Trump Signals Support For Afghans Stuck In UAE
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would help Afghans detained in the United Arab Emirates for years after fleeing their country when its Taliban leaders extended control over it.
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Orphaned Afghan Toddler's Emotional Meet With Family In Qatar
An Afghan toddler who was bundled onto an evacuation flight from Kabul in 2021 after her parents died in a bomb blast has been reunited with relatives at a Qatar orphanage.
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"Jaage Ho?" When PM's Midnight Call Surprised Foreign Minister
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dialled past midnight after an Indian consulate in an Afghan city came under attack some years ago, recalled Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.
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UK PM Prioritised Pets Over People During Afghan Evacuation, Emails Show
The UK government denied Thursday that embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson had prioritised pets over people in the chaotic evacuation out of Afghanistan as Kabul fell to the Taliban.
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Nat Geo Green-Eyed Girl, "Most Famous Afghanistan Refugee", Now In Italy
Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman immortalised decades ago on a National Geographic cover, has been evacuated to Italy, the Italian government said on Thursday.
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Kim Kardashian Pays For Evacuation Of Afghan Female Footballers
Members of the Afghanistan women's youth development football team have been airlifted to the UK in an evacuation flight funded by US celebrity Kim Kardashian.
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Evacuated Over 100 Football Family Members From Afghanistan After Complex Negotiations: FIFA
Football's world governing body FIFA on Friday said it has evacuated almost 100 members of the "football family", including women players, from Afghanistan after "complex negotiations" and with support from Qatar.
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A Facebook-Funded Flight Was Suddenly Packed With 155 Extra Afghans
Donors from Silicon Valley including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, as well as Facebook, had agreed to fund an evacuation flight for 188 journalists, aid workers and others who were suddenly in danger after the Talibans quick capture of Kabul.
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Afghan Army Collapse "Took Us All By Surprise", Says US Defence Secretary
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Tuesday that the Afghan army's sudden collapse caught the Pentagon off-guard as he acknowledged miscalculations in America's longest war including corruption and damaged morale in Afghan ranks.
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Weeks After Fleeing Home, Afghans Try To Pick Up Pieces At US Military Base
There's a sense that life's events, in all of their complexity, are simply unfolding for the over 9,300 Afghan evacuees who have come to call this US military base in New Jersey home over the past month or so -- and who may be here for some time.
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US Defence Secretary Thanks India For Cooperation In Afghan Evacuation
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in a phone call with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has thanked India for its cooperation during the recent evacuation from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said
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Measles Cases Force US To Suspend Afghan Refugee Flights
Flights bringing Afghan refugees to the United States have been suspended after four cases of measles were detected among recent arrivals, the White House said Friday.
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First Evacuation Flight Takes Off From Kabul Since US Retreat: Report
Some 200 passengers, including US citizens, took off from Kabul airport on Thursday, on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on August 30.
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Urged By US, Taliban Agrees To Let 200 Foreigners Leave Afghanistan
Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a U.S. official said.
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Some Afghans Evacuated From Kabul Struggle To Find Help In US
After Fahima, 30, stepped off a plane at Dulles international airport in Virginia on Aug. 26th, she asked an immigration official what would happen to her next. He shrugged, she said, and told her to find a lawyer.
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"Will Try To Save Them": Trump Signals Support For Afghans Stuck In UAE
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would help Afghans detained in the United Arab Emirates for years after fleeing their country when its Taliban leaders extended control over it.
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Orphaned Afghan Toddler's Emotional Meet With Family In Qatar
An Afghan toddler who was bundled onto an evacuation flight from Kabul in 2021 after her parents died in a bomb blast has been reunited with relatives at a Qatar orphanage.
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"Jaage Ho?" When PM's Midnight Call Surprised Foreign Minister
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dialled past midnight after an Indian consulate in an Afghan city came under attack some years ago, recalled Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.
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UK PM Prioritised Pets Over People During Afghan Evacuation, Emails Show
The UK government denied Thursday that embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson had prioritised pets over people in the chaotic evacuation out of Afghanistan as Kabul fell to the Taliban.
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Nat Geo Green-Eyed Girl, "Most Famous Afghanistan Refugee", Now In Italy
Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman immortalised decades ago on a National Geographic cover, has been evacuated to Italy, the Italian government said on Thursday.
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Kim Kardashian Pays For Evacuation Of Afghan Female Footballers
Members of the Afghanistan women's youth development football team have been airlifted to the UK in an evacuation flight funded by US celebrity Kim Kardashian.
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Evacuated Over 100 Football Family Members From Afghanistan After Complex Negotiations: FIFA
Football's world governing body FIFA on Friday said it has evacuated almost 100 members of the "football family", including women players, from Afghanistan after "complex negotiations" and with support from Qatar.
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A Facebook-Funded Flight Was Suddenly Packed With 155 Extra Afghans
Donors from Silicon Valley including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, as well as Facebook, had agreed to fund an evacuation flight for 188 journalists, aid workers and others who were suddenly in danger after the Talibans quick capture of Kabul.
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Afghan Army Collapse "Took Us All By Surprise", Says US Defence Secretary
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Tuesday that the Afghan army's sudden collapse caught the Pentagon off-guard as he acknowledged miscalculations in America's longest war including corruption and damaged morale in Afghan ranks.
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Weeks After Fleeing Home, Afghans Try To Pick Up Pieces At US Military Base
There's a sense that life's events, in all of their complexity, are simply unfolding for the over 9,300 Afghan evacuees who have come to call this US military base in New Jersey home over the past month or so -- and who may be here for some time.
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US Defence Secretary Thanks India For Cooperation In Afghan Evacuation
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in a phone call with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has thanked India for its cooperation during the recent evacuation from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said
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Measles Cases Force US To Suspend Afghan Refugee Flights
Flights bringing Afghan refugees to the United States have been suspended after four cases of measles were detected among recent arrivals, the White House said Friday.
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First Evacuation Flight Takes Off From Kabul Since US Retreat: Report
Some 200 passengers, including US citizens, took off from Kabul airport on Thursday, on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on August 30.
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Urged By US, Taliban Agrees To Let 200 Foreigners Leave Afghanistan
Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a U.S. official said.
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Some Afghans Evacuated From Kabul Struggle To Find Help In US
After Fahima, 30, stepped off a plane at Dulles international airport in Virginia on Aug. 26th, she asked an immigration official what would happen to her next. He shrugged, she said, and told her to find a lawyer.
