afghanistan
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
U.S. struggles to speed Kabul airlift despite Taliban, chaos
A State Department spokesman said 6,000 people were cleared for evacuation Thursday and were expected to board military flights.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
Taliban suppress more dissent as economic challenges loom
Many Afghans fear a return to the Taliban's harsh rule in the late 1990s, when the group largely confined women to their homes, banned television and music, chopped off the hands of suspected thieves and held public executions.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
Our View: Afghan refugees should be welcomed to Maine
Gov. Mills should join the state chief executives who are publicly offering support for the people whose lives are at risk because they helped U.S. forces.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Father of first American killed: Afghanistan end ‘shameful’
Much of the work his son and others did in Afghanistan has been undone, he said, but that doesn't make their contributions meaningless.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
In Taliban’s 7-day march to power, a stunning string of wins
Just a week before Afghanistan’s collapse, things looked staggeringly different, but even for a country scarred by generations of war, the weeklong string of victories by the Taliban stood out as a remarkable turn of events
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Biden: Troops will stay in Afghanistan to evacuate Americans
President Biden says he’s committed to keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan until every American is evacuated, even if that means maintaining a military presence there beyond his Aug. 31 deadline for withdrawal.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Taliban militants violently disperse rare Afghan protest
The attack in Jalalabad comes as many Afghans are hiding at home or trying to flee the country as allegations of abuses by the loosely controlled militant organization grow.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Maine Voices: Meeting our moral obligation to Afghans in peril will take swift, decisive action
Immediate evacuation is essential to avoiding the kinds of atrocities we’ve seen elsewhere when leadership failed.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
‘Everybody is facing a dark future’: Afghans in the U.S. struggle to evacuate family, friends
The Department of Defense intends to evacuate 22,000 Afghans with special immigrant visas, as well as their relatives, but the pace so far has been slow.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Bill Nemitz: Where Maine soldiers once tried to do the impossible, the Taliban now rule
For the Maine Army National Guard's Bravo Company, the fall of Afghanistan is a cautionary tale.
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