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  Taliban searched closed Indian consulates in Kandhar, Herat; took away parked cars

  India | August 23, 2021 12:43 IST

  India is among other countries that are evacuating their staff and people from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in the country.

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  Top 9 News: Horrifying video coming from Kabul Airport, baby being handed to US troops

  News | August 20, 2021 10:20 IST

  Several people were reported to be killed in the Afghan city of Asadabad on Thursday when Taliban fighters opened fire on people waving the national flat at an Independence Day rally, news agency Reuters sai

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  Ready to speak to Taliban: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

  World | August 20, 2021 8:50 IST

  "I'm ready to speak myself when it is clear with whom should I speak, for what purpose," he said on Thursday at a briefing for reporters.

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  Afghan officer who fought with US forces rescued from Kabul

  World | August 20, 2021 6:53 IST

  Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer, was being hunted by the Taliban because of his years working with the American military. 

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  Afghan footballer Zaki Anwari dies after falling from US plane at Kabul airport

  Other Sports | August 19, 2021 23:31 IST

  Young football player Zaki Anwari had climbed onto the USAF Boeing C-17 plane that took off from the Kabul International airport.

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  Top 9 News: Taliban open fire at civilians outside Kabul airport | Latest report from Afghanistan

  News | August 19, 2021 11:40 IST

  Afghanistan Latest News: Although the Taliban promised safe passage to the Kabul airport for people trying to flee the country, there have been incidents of violence at the checkpoints on airport roads. Photographs of women and children being beaten and whipped by the Taliban fighters have surfaced showing the brutal face of the insurgents. Reports of civilians - women and children - being beaten, houses being ransacked have been pouring in since August 15 - the day the Taliban seized control of capital Kabul.

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  Taliban's wicked face on Afghan I-Day; open fire, beat up women, children outside Kabul airport

  World | August 19, 2021 10:59 IST

  Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and took control of the presidential palace. Soon after the terror group claimed control over the Afghan capital, several countries started evacuating their diplomatic personnel and people from the country.

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  India ‘very carefully’ following developments in Afghanistan: S Jaishankar

  India | August 19, 2021 9:58 IST

  S Jaishankar said that India is “very carefully” following the developments in Afghanistan and India’s focus is on ensuring the security and safe return of Indian nationals still in the war-torn country.

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  Ashraf Ghani posts first video message after fleeing from Afghanistan: 'In talks to return'

  World | August 21, 2021 10:21 IST

  Addressing the world via a Facebook video, Ashraf Ghani defended his action of leaving the country saying he did it in a bid to prevent massive bloodshed.

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  Afghan diplomat claims former President Ashraf Ghani stole $169 million, urges arrest

  India | August 19, 2021 0:16 IST

  Ambassador Mohammad Zahir Aghbar told a news conference on Wednesday that Ashraf Ghani, former President of Afghanistan “stole $169 million from the state coffers” and called his flight “a betrayal of the state and the nation.”

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  Taliban orders release of all political prisoners in afghanistan

  India | August 19, 2021 2:03 IST

  As Afghanistan stares at an uncertain future, world leaders, political commentators and foreign affairs experts have joined the international chorus denouncing the US policy in Afghanistan, under which a 20-year military deployment suddenly came to a chaotic end on Sunday.

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  Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar will be one of two deputies to Interim PM. Who is he?

  World | September 07, 2021 20:47 IST

  Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is the only surviving Taliban leader to have been personally appointed deputy by the late Taliban commander Mullah Mohammed Omar, giving Baradar near-legendary status within the movement. Here are more facts about him.

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  Kabul's Saigon moment - Rerun of 1975 in 2021

  News | August 18, 2021 19:29 IST

  Photos of the US forces evacuating Americans from Kabul on a helicopter were a strikingly similar to the US's exit from Saigon in 1975. What happened in Vietnam 46 years ago?

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  Afghan students appeal PM Modi to extend visa, give them citizenship

  Education | August 19, 2021 13:41 IST

  IndiaTV spoke to three Afghan students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Here's what they said.

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  Taliban blows up statue of Shiite militia leader, who fought against them in Afghanistan Civil War

  World | August 18, 2021 17:37 IST

  The insurgents’ every action in their sudden sweep to power is being watched closely. They insist they have changed and won’t impose the same draconian restrictions they did when they last ruled Afghanistan, all but eliminating women’s rights, carrying out public executions and banning television and music.

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  Afghanistan's former President Hamid Karzai meets senior Taliban faction leader

  World | August 18, 2021 17:45 IST

  Former President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, a senior official in the ousted government met with Anas Haqqani as part of preliminary meetings that a spokesman for Karzai said would would facilitate eventual negotiations with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the top Taliban political leader.

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  Taliban denied access to $9.5 billion of Afghan money

  World | August 18, 2021 15:56 IST

  An official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government has in the US will not be available to the Taliban, which remains on the Treasury Department's sanctions designation list.  

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  Ashraf Ghani, former Afghanistan President who fled Kabul, is now 'settled' in UAE

  World | August 19, 2021 13:36 IST

  Earlier, reports claimed that Ghani has fled to neighbouring Tajikistan or Uzbekistan as the Taliban swiftly took control of Afghanistan in just couple of weeks the US forces started to pull out of the country after over 20 years.

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  Joe Biden does not believe that the US should be 'fighting and dying' in a war: NSA

  World | August 18, 2021 11:52 IST

  President Biden in April announced that all American troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11 this year, thus bringing to end the country's longest war, spanning across two decades.

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  NATO chief: Afghan leaders responsible for military collapse

  World | August 17, 2021 22:44 IST

  NATO Secretary-General's remarks came after he chaired a meeting to discuss the security implications of the Taliban’s sweeping victory in Afghanistan.