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2 years 8 months ago #440
by snowman
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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Finally I can listen to someone's opinion without having it being distorted by the crappy one sided opinion journalism 
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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2 years 8 months ago #442
by Damni
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2 years 8 months ago #444
by Maki
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Taliban enter Afghan capital, president and diplomats flee
KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban insurgents entered Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan on Sunday, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a U.S.-led invasion.It was not yet clear where Ghani was headed or how exactly power would be transferred following the Taliban's lightning sweep https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/talibans-rapid-advance-across-afghanistan-2021-08-10 in recent weeks across Afghanistan. Their advance accelerated as U.S. and other foreign troops withdrew in line with President Joe Biden's desire to end America's longest war, launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.By evening, the Taliban said they had taken control of most of the districts around the outskirts of the capital.The U.S. Embassy said there were reports the capital's airport, where diplomats, officials and other Afghans had fled, had come under fire."The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly including at the airport. There are reports of the airport taking fire; therefore we are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place," an embassy security alert said.Hundreds of Afghans, some of them government ministers and government employees and also other civilians including many women and children, crowded in the terminal desperately waiting for flights out.
"The airport is out of control... the (Afghan) government just sold us out," said an official at the scene who declined to be named for security reasons.
"The airport is out of control... the (Afghan) government just sold us out," said an official at the scene who declined to be named for security reasons.
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