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The Administration has long conceded that the endgame in Afghanistan is a negotiated political solution that includes the Afghan Taliban. (truthout.org)
When the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August and the Taliban took over, it left the thousands of Afghan translators who were not evacuated in danger. (wbur.org)
Anti-Taliban Resistance in Afghanistan: Will Congress and Biden Back Them or Bail? (foreignpolicy.com)
Some lawmakers who have converted their offices into miniature operations centers to help get Americans and Afghan allies onto flights out of Afghanistan are now looking for ways to extend lifelines to pockets of anti-Taliban resistance groups that include remnants of the Afghan National Security Forces. (foreignpolicy.com)
Advocates for the Taliban resistance face a war-weary administration and public not eager to expend more U.S. treasure in Afghanistan. (foreignpolicy.com)
But Waltz's efforts reflect an emerging debate about what a U.S. strategy in Afghanistan should entail after the Afghan government 's rapid collapse and the Taliban 's ascension to control most of the country for the first time in 20 years. (foreignpolicy.com)
A small resistance to the Taliban has flared up in northeastern Afghanistan, with Ahmad Massoud, son of the longtime Northern Alliance leader, commanding some units from the former Afghan army. (foreignpolicy.com)
Providing support to the resistance in Panjshir-whether political, financial, or military-could only incite further violence in the country as talks between the Taliban and other power brokers in Afghanistan commence. (foreignpolicy.com)
SHAPIRO: Desperate people scrambled to get out of the country as the Taliban swept back into power. (kcbx.org)
I mean, the U.S. wanted to leave Afghanistan with some kind of power-sharing arrangement between the Taliban and the Afghan government, and that didn't happen. (kcbx.org)
And, Greg, you've been covering Afghanistan since the '90s, the last time they were in control - any signs the Taliban will govern differently this time around? (kcbx.org)
At least nine Indians were among 17 people killed as Taliban suicide bombers carried out a string of attacks in the heart of Kabul, targeting Indian interests in Afghanistan. (thehindu.com)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hosted Afghan and Pakistan counterparts Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, its balmy shores a stark contrast from the battle with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. (thedailystar.net)
Afghanistan meanwhile has consistently accused Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency of supporting Taliban insurgents, allegations furiously denied by Islamabad. (thedailystar.net)
Afghanistan: Will TAPI Pipeline Be Able to Beat Back the Taliban? (eurasianet.org)
How will the U.S. be able to do that now that the U.S. is out and the Taliban is back in? (kunc.org)
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has backed the UK's armed forces chief over comments he made to Sky News suggesting the Taliban has "changed" since it was last in power 20 years ago. (sky.com)
Nick Carter knows more than I will ever know about Afghanistan and the Taliban and more than most people. (sky.com)
Afghan officials described the attackers as Taliban, Uzbek, and Arab fighters who crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan. (longwarjournal.org)
After the death of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad and the comprehensive obliteration of Al Qaeda networks from Afghanistan and the transition of security to the Afghan National and Defense Forces, it has been a while that such questions have been floating in Afghan politics and regional media with no heed of US officials: Why is US still present in Afghanistan if it can't defeat Taliban? (globalvillagespace.com)
The publication of papers took place in a time when Donald Trump' special envoy for the Peace process with Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, is near more than ever to ink an agreement-probably till Christmas-about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. (globalvillagespace.com)
Back in Archi district, where his family lives, most of his friends have joined the Taliban. (latimes.com)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders. (yomiuri.co.jp)
Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, is representing Afghanistan at the meeting. (yomiuri.co.jp)
The recent departure of Australia's final defence personnel comes amid reports American troops could complete their exit 'within days', and as Taliban fighters continue to retake districts across Afghanistan. (abc.net.au)
Thousands of people - including foreign nationals, and Afghans who helped western militaries and now fear retribution from the Taliban - have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban's takeover on August 15. (yahoo.com)
In a land foremost known for harboring Taliban terrorists and suffering under almost continuous conflict since 1979, not many people know that Afghanistan has the second-worst infant mortality rate in the world. (christianpost.com)
The Taliban blitzkrieg that dismantled 20 years of neocon and liberal imperialism in Afghanistan has also marked an ignoble end to all manners of pretences. (aljazeera.com)
Twenty years ago, the United States pretended it was going to Afghanistan to dismantle the Taliban, destroy al-Qaeda, and bring Afghans peace, prosperity, liberal democracy and rule of law. (aljazeera.com)
Now, a "new and improved" Taliban is in power in Afghanistan. (aljazeera.com)
Their embarrassment is rooted in the fact that they helped George W Bush sell the lie that the US was in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban and its Islamist ideology and bring peace and prosperity to Afghans. (aljazeera.com)
The Taliban is now back, and it is free to do with their country as it pleases. (aljazeera.com)
The Pentagon has asked the White House to send thousands of more troops to Afghanistan to break the deadlocked fight against the Taliban. (asianage.com)
The Taliban on Sunday welcomed the US recent measure of allowing the flow of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. (asianage.com)
Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of Taliban caretaker government, on Thursday said that Afghanistan wants to have friendly relations with the international community, including the neighbouring and regional countries, reported Xinhua. (asianage.com)
In 1996, with military support from Pakistan and financial support from Saudi Arabia, the Taliban seized Kabul and founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. (wikipedia.org)
The 9/11 Commission in the US found that under the Taliban, al-Qaeda was able to use Afghanistan as a place to train and indoctrinate fighters, import weapons, coordinate with other jihadists, and plot terrorist actions. (wikipedia.org)
In 1999 both the US and the United Nations enacted sanctions against the Taliban in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267, which demanded the Taliban surrender bin Laden for trial in the US and close all terrorist bases in Afghanistan. (wikipedia.org)
Suspected U.S. drone strikes have previously targeted Al-Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban, and Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan. (rferl.org)
More than 70 percent of the 3.6 million Afghans who left their country after the Taliban seized back power in August 2021 fled to Iran. (rferl.org)
Afghanistan's Taliban-led government announced punishments handed out to 417 people under Shari'a law during a recent 12-month period, according to a report issued this week by Afghan Witness, an organization that monitors human rights abuses in Afghanistan. (rferl.org)
Sure, Kunduz was captured by the Taliban - but then the Afghans got it back (though minus one American-bombed hospital, along with most of its patients and doctors). (dawn.com)
Sure, Sangin was captured by the Taliban - but now the Afghan army is fighting to get it back. (dawn.com)
It is not a great surprise that the Taliban have continued to push in southern Afghanistan, it's their heartland," Gen Dannatt said. (dawn.com)
Taliban fighters stand guard in the site of explosion through a hotel in the city of Khost province eastern of Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. (ktsm.com)
Authorities in Pakistan have said members of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, are hiding in Khost and elsewhere in Afghanistan. (ktsm.com)
TTP is a separate group but is a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war. (ktsm.com)
Pakistani officials say many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuaries in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, which also emboldened the Pakistani Taliban. (ktsm.com)

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. (kcbx.org)
India on Saturday sent a special aircraft to Afghanistan to bring back bodies of its nationals, including Army officials, who were killed in suicide attacks in Kabul. (thehindu.com)
KABUL (Pajhwok): India and Turkmenistan say they stoutly support a peaceful, secure, stable and prosperous Afghanistan. (pajhwok.com)
Speaking to students of the Institute of International Relations, he said as immediate neighbours of Afghanistan, India and Turkmenistan were obviously worried about recent developments in Kabul. (pajhwok.com)
Thirty-five hundred U.S. troops are expected to be back on the ground in Kabul today to help get Americans and Afghans who helped them out of the country. (kunc.org)
A roadside bomb hit a Kabul-bound passenger bus in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding around 40, mostly women and children, officials said. (asianage.com)
Photo: Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan Kabul 23 March 2017 - The Government of Japan pledged US$ 8.6 million to support the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) patients and prevent the spread of the disease in Afghanistan. (who.int)
1Ghazanfar Institute of Health Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan (Correspondence to A.M. Haidari: [email protected]). (who.int)
METHODS: In this retrospective, observational analysis, casualty numbers, and operative information was collected and reported from military medical assets in Kabul, Afghanistan. (bvsalud.org)

On Tuesday, Rep. Michael Honda signed his name to legislation put forward by Sen. Russ Feingold, Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Walter Jones that would require the President to establish a timetable for the redeployment of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (truthout.org)
Biden has been portraying the drawdown of U.S. troops as a sign of victory in Afghanistan, but the truth is that resistance forces are winning. (fightbacknews.org)
MYRE: So in April, the president gave a speech from the White House, and he said the U.S. was going to pull out all its troops from Afghanistan by September. (kcbx.org)
And they actually had to send more troops back in. (kcbx.org)
For the first time in 20 years, there are no U.S. troops in harm's way in Afghanistan this holiday season. (kcbx.org)
Moscow had made clear it has no plans to send troops to Afghanistan but like several other ex-Soviet states has allowed Nato states to use its airspace for the transit of equipment. (thedailystar.net)
U.S. troops patrol Dolana village of Parwan province, Afghanistan, in 2014. (govexec.com)
Democrat President Joe Biden, facing pressure and widespread backlash over his decisions regarding Afghanistan, announced on Saturday that he will be sending at least an additional 1,000 troops into the middle eastern nation. (dailywire.com)
The documents, containing 400 interviews of senior military and government officials, have elucidated that the successive US governments misled the public about the ground situation and gloomy prospect of war in Afghanistan- the war that has cost more than a $1trillion , 2400 American lives, extermination of tens of thousands Afghan civilians and troops and with no certain end to it. (globalvillagespace.com)
The president gave Defense Secretary Jim Mattis the power to send up to 3,900 more troops to Afghanistan earlier this summer, but the secretary refused to do so without a new strategy in place, signed off on by the president. (foreignpolicy.com)
Gen. James Linder, the head of U.S. and NATO special operations forces in Afghanistan, said Sunday the nearly 4,000 troops requested by the Pentagon for Afghanistan includes about 460 trainers to help increase the size of the commandos. (foreignpolicy.com)
US troops in Afghanistan number about 8,400 today, and there are another 5,000 from NATO allies, who also mainly serve in an advisory capacity -- a far cry from the US presence of more than 100,000 six years ago. (asianage.com)

At the start of this year, people knew that President Biden had promised to end the war in Afghanistan. (kcbx.org)
MARTÍNEZ: President Biden said in his address yesterday that the U.S.'s national interest in Afghanistan has been to prevent terrorist attacks in the U.S. And you told Politico that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wants to reassess if terror groups could regain a foothold there. (kunc.org)
Among those horrified was staunch Biden supporter Ron Perlman, who posted a video Tuesday morning begging the President to get back in there and offer a "free ride" to anyone who wants out - including American allies who are now left to fend for themselves. (toofab.com)
Mike Pompeo, the former director of the CIA and secretary of state, said in an interview last week that Trump's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan appeared to be very different than what Biden was doing. (dailywire.com)
So President Joe Biden pulled US forces out of Afghanistan without thinking for a second what will happen to some 40 million human beings the US treated like disposable herds in its military calculations. (aljazeera.com)

Active-service members and veterans in the United States have given testimony about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground while imploring Congress to help allies left behind. (abc.net.au)

But even if the overwhelming majority of House Republicans stay put, 150 votes on the House floor in favor of a timetable for withdrawal is a feasible goal - the universe of Members of the House who have done something significant in the last year in opposition to an open-ended military commitment in Afghanistan is around 138 . (truthout.org)
And this sequence of events - should it come to pass - will help legitimize the idea of a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan in international political discourse, at a moment at which such a development could prove decisive. (truthout.org)
Joe Biden's hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan has received a lot of criticism from his opponents. (toofab.com)
There is plenty of blame to go around for the failures in Afghanistan, but what happens as a result of the way the withdrawal happened will be Biden's alone. (dailywire.com)
Andrea Stricker, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told The Daily Wire that "the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan fits a pattern of this administration deciding on a course of foreign action without consideration for the ramifications. (dailywire.com)
Xi pledged China's support in a message to a gathering of representatives from Afghanistan, China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in a central Chinese city that spotlights Beijing's aspirations to play a leading role in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces last August. (yomiuri.co.jp)
After the withdrawal of the Soviet military from Afghanistan in February 1989, the PDPA regime collapsed in 1992. (wikipedia.org)
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to describe the United States and allied military medical response during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. (bvsalud.org)
BACKGROUND: The military withdrawal from Afghanistan concluded with severe hostilities resulting in numerous civilian and military casualties. (bvsalud.org)

I can't speak for everyone, but there are elements within the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan that it's possible to reason with. (sky.com)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) welcomes the recent decision by US Treasury Department allowing US government agencies along with international and non-governmental organizations and banks to facilitate the flow of food and medicine to the IEA," said the ministry's spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi in a statement, reported Xinhua. (asianage.com)

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline would supply 33 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas a year from the Dauletabad gas fields to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan's volatile southern provinces, according to the semi-official Turkmenistan.ru website. (eurasianet.org)

The agreement aims to facilitate the deportation to Afghanistan of Afghans who came to Europe to seek protection. (amnesty.eu)
Even the top American military strategists and policymakers misapprehended the strategic culture of Afghans, the uniqueness of its geography, the uneasy history of foreign interventions, the complexity of heterogeneous ethnic composition and the fact that entering Afghanistan is easy but the exit extremely tricky. (globalvillagespace.com)
A "peaceful, stable, developed and prosperous Afghanistan" is what Afghans aspire to, which "serves the common interests of regional countries and the international community," Xi said. (yomiuri.co.jp)
Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the possibility of a complete economic collapse in Afghanistan was "serious," highlighting an urgent need for funding support to Afghans. (asianage.com)
We left Afghanistan in a situation where the Afghans were in control and the future was in their hands. (dawn.com)
She has written about domestic violence in the Afghan diaspora in Sweden and about hidden polygamy among Afghans in Malmö, as well as many other topics related to the performance of Afghan women in different political contexts in Afghanistan. (lu.se)

SHAPIRO: Greg, what exactly was Biden's promise about Afghanistan his first year in office? (kcbx.org)
Group of veterans, including those who fought in America's longest war, write they are "resolute in our support of President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan. (votevets.org)
WASHINGTON, DC - Over 4300 veterans, including 150 veterans of the war in Afghanistan, from across the United States, are releasing an open letter strongly backing President Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan now. (votevets.org)
We the undersigned are resolute in our support of President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan. (votevets.org)

Bin Laden is dead, and al-Qaeda is degraded in Iraq - and in Afghanistan. (fightbacknews.org)
I returned my Iraq campaign medal because they had nothing to do with Al Qaeda in the first place, and I return my Global War on Terror medal because we have lost our focus of our true enemy Al Qaeda which is no longer present in Afghanistan. (ivaw.org)
VoteVets Political Action Committee is a federal political committee which primarily helps elect Iraq and Afghanistan war Veteran candidates and educates about Veterans and military issues aimed at influencing the outcome of the next election. (votevets.org)
We don't do "bad news" from Afghanistan or Iraq. (dawn.com)
Contrary to popular belief, there have been quite a few excellent songs written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, though very few have become popular hits. (ranker.com)
What are songs about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? (ranker.com)
to identify significant factors to the development of PTSD in 52 Puerto Rico National Guard's veterans back from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. (bvsalud.org)
The Marine Resiliency Study (MRS) is a prospective study of factors predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among approximately 2,600 Marines in 4 battalions deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. (cdc.gov)

Openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran both scored hundreds as Afghanistan crushed Bangladesh by 142 runs on Saturday to seal their three-match one-day international series. (zawya.com)
The hosts struggled to make breakthroughs on a green surface and by the time Shakib Al Hasan had Gurbaz leg-before, Afghanistan were already closing in on their previous best score against Bangladesh of 306-4. (zawya.com)
The blast occurred at a city hotel frequented by Afghan people and refugees from Pakistan's former militant stronghold of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, said Mustaghfir Gurbaz, a police spokesperson in Khost. (ktsm.com)

Gul and his family - at least 20 people including his brothers and their wives and children - live, like thousands of others across Afghanistan, in harm's way. (latimes.com)

The bombers struck at a number of guest houses, particularly at Park Residence, rented out by the Indian Embassy for its staffers and those linked to India's developmental work in Afghanistan. (thehindu.com)
Setting aside concerns about Islamic militants, the presidents of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, along with India's petroleum minister, Murli Deora, have signed an inter-governmental agreement pledging to construct a 1,735-kilometer natural gas pipeline connecting all four states. (eurasianet.org)

NATO helicopters killed 12 militants in eastern Afghanistan, the press service of the International Security Assistance Force said on May 23, according to RIA Novosti. (finchannel.com)
An Afghan official says a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 16 militants. (rferl.org)

Kovind stressed security along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan- Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. (pajhwok.com)

Russia is still haunted by the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan which cost over 13,000 Soviet lives and ended in a humiliating pullout in 1989 and has kept a wary distance from the troubles of Nato forces in the country. (thedailystar.net)
The entry of the Soviet Union into Afghanistan prompted its Cold War rivals, especially the United States and Saudi Arabia, to support rebels fighting against the Soviet-backed PDPA. (wikipedia.org)
the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, to the March 14 political coalition in Lebanon in efforts to spread their version of Islam, Wahhabism, or to counterbalance the influence of other states. (lu.se)

President Donald Trump is about to take ownership of the 16-year U.S.war in Afghanistan, and will announce his decision on the way forward tonight at 9pm in a nationally televised address. (foreignpolicy.com)
Further leading to fear have been statements by President Trump that he could wipe Afghanistan off the face of the earth and bring the war to an end in 10 days - even as the peace talks continue in Doha, Qatar. (latimes.com)

New 18 quoted him as saying: "We strongly support a peaceful, secure and stable Afghanistan and emphasise its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. (pajhwok.com)

Title : Modeling scenarios for ending poliovirus transmission in Pakistan and Afghanistan Personal Author(s) : Kalkowska, Dominika A.;Badizadegan, Kamran;Thompson, Kimberly M. (cdc.gov)
People still get polio in parts of Africa (especially Nigeria), Pakistan, and Afghanistan. (msdmanuals.com)

Iran will send an envoy to a U.S.-backed international conference on Afghanistan, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Thursday. (4vf.net)

Minneapolis, MN - Over 30 people joined a Minneapolis protest on October 5 to mark 17 years of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. (fightbacknews.org)
The visiting president also stressed a central role for the UN in providing immediate humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan and preserving the rights of women, children and all ethnic groups and minorities there. (pajhwok.com)
The UK Ministry of Defence said 7,109 people had been evacuated from Afghanistan on UK flights since August 13, the BBC reported. (yahoo.com)
World Vision is privileged to serve alongside the families in Afghanistan as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people. (christianpost.com)
That it was a calamity for Afghanistan and its people is entirely irrelevant to American military strategists. (aljazeera.com)
On the night of March 21, strong tremors had jolted most parts of Punjab and Haryana after an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, causing people to rush out of buildings. (tribuneindia.com)
Expressing gratitude on behalf of the Government and people of Afghanistan, Minister of Public Health Dr. Feroz said, "It has been more than four decades that the government of Japan has supported the Ministry of Public Health especially in the health sector, and more specifically in TB control. (who.int)
We are hopeful that this grant will contribute to further advances in the programme to relieve the people of Afghanistan from the burden of TB. (who.int)
In 1994, visiting sub-Saharan Africa, I could see that disease and poverty were still holding back millions of people. (who.int)

Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, that suffers from endemic polio, a childhood virus that can cause paralysis or death. (medscape.com)
Aziz Memon, who heads the Rotary Club's Polio Plus program that funds many of the immunization teams, said this year the drive was also making a renewed effort to reach migrants who come back and forth from Afghanistan. (medscape.com)
Overall, the polio eradication program of Afghanistan has been successful in achieving high seroprevalence of poliovirus neutralizing antibodies in the parts of the country included in this study. (cdc.gov)

WV is providing a program at the Institute of Health Sciences in Herat in western Afghanistan to help combat the high death rates from the birth process. (christianpost.com)
A group of women in Herat have dedicated themselves to continuing a nearly long-lost, centuries-old tradition of woodcarving that is unique to Afghanistan. (rferl.org)

While al-Qaeda maintained its own camps in Afghanistan, it also supported training camps of other organizations. (wikipedia.org)

Afghanistan is one of two countries where wild poliovirus (WPV) type 1 remains endemic. (cdc.gov)
Spatial analysis of genetic clusters and epidemiologic factors related to wild poliovirus type 1 persistence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (cdc.gov)
Following the certification of the World Health Organization Region of Africa as free of serotype 1 wild poliovirus (WPV1) in 2020, Afghanistan and Pakistan represent the last remaining WPV1 reservoirs. (cdc.gov)

Three NATO servicemen - a French soldier and two Dutch nationals, - and a civilian contract worker whose nationality was not disclosed, were killed in roadside bomb explosions in south Afghanistan. (finchannel.com)

After the August 1998 United States embassy bombings were linked to bin Laden, President Bill Clinton ordered missile strikes on militant training camps in Afghanistan. (wikipedia.org)

The Afghan government's control or influence over the population declined this quarter," said the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in its quarterly report released on Thursday. (govexec.com)
According to a report to Congress by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, only about 57 percent of the districts in the country were under the Afghan government's control as of November 2016, a 15 percent decrease from the previous year. (foreignpolicy.com)
Wang referred to the group as "pivotal" force important to peace and reconstruction in Afghanistan. (yomiuri.co.jp)

Ethical approval was provided by the Institutional Review Board, Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan. (cdc.gov)
NPOs) and contracting-in arrange- expenditure is estimated as 75% of total ments within the Afghanistan Ministry health expenditure [10]. (who.int)

Minneapolis, MN - A coalition of Twin Cities peace and anti-war organizations held an anti-war protest October 9 to mark 20 years since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. (fightbacknews.org)
New York, NY - Several dozen protesters gathered in Herald Square on October 7 to mark the invasion of Afghanistan and protest the other wars the U.S. waging abroad. (fightbacknews.org)
On Sunday, October 7, at 3 p.m., various anti-war and international solidarity organizations will be gathering to mark of the 17th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. (fightbacknews.org)
Since the first day of American military invasion in Afghanistan, the US military generals and the top echelon of the Bush administration knew that even disengagement, let alone a clear military victory, from this region would be difficult if not impossible. (globalvillagespace.com)
For those purposes, the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has been a spectacular success. (aljazeera.com)

Second, I have ordered our Armed Forces and our Intelligence Community to ensure that we will maintain the capability and the vigilance to address future terrorist threats from Afghanistan. (dailywire.com)

If the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" in Washington gets onto the McGovern bill in the next few weeks, the political space to be a "liberal" in Washington who supports an open-ended military commitment in Afghanistan will have largely evaporated when the House considers $33 billion more for war in Afghanistan between now and Memorial Day. (truthout.org)
At the ceremony, Chief Representative of JICA Afghanistan Office, Mr. Takeshi Watanabe, remarked, "Infectious disease control has been a priority area of JICA's assistance in Afghanistan, and JICA's longstanding commitment to TB control in this country dates as far back as 1970s. (who.int)

We wanted to spend our time questioning him on Ukraine, the state of our democracy and Afghanistan, a war that ended with the enemy that U.S. and Afghan government forces and allies had been fighting for two decades with that enemy retaking the capital. (kenw.org)

Cooperation with Afghanistan on returns and broader migration management should not undermine the EU's overall approach to Afghanistan which should go beyond a predominant focus on returns to acknowledge the complex dynamics of migration from Afghanistan and within the region, and should primarily address the underlying drivers of instability and violent conflict in Afghanistan. (amnesty.eu)
CONCLUSION: Lessons learned from the last 20 years of combat casualty care were successfully implemented during the culmination of the Afghanistan conflict. (bvsalud.org)

The majority of rural deliveries in Afghanistan are done at home with no birth attendants, medicine, supplies, or light, and consequently Afghanistan suffers from the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world. (goalzero.com)

Also taking part in the four-way summit meeting is Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon, whose country borders Afghanistan. (thedailystar.net)

Both the Defense Department and NATO, however, stressed that the population control data are "not indicative of the effectiveness of the South Asia strategy or progress toward security and stability in Afghanistan," citing uncertainty in the models. (govexec.com)
Just two weeks ago, Gen John Campbell, the US commander of American and Nato forces in the country, admitted that IS has surfaced in Afghanistan. (dawn.com)

He added India shared a broad regional consensus on issues related to Afghanistan, including the formation of a representative and inclusive government, combating terrorism and drug trafficking. (pajhwok.com)

US and Afghan forces beat back a brazen assault on two joint outposts in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan. (longwarjournal.org)

The Indians, who died in the incident, include two Army officers, government officials, an ITBP constable and a tabla player who was part of a cultural delegation to Afghanistan. (thehindu.com)
When Army captain Luke Bushatz returned home from the war in Afghanistan, he was seemingly in one piece. (outsideonline.com)
He is a retired Army lieutenant colonel who deployed twice to Afghanistan. (kenw.org)
And, just for good measure, take the recent local story in Afghanistan about poor Qais Rahmani who, along with his family and four-month-old baby, set off among the refugee army to Europe and in Turkey boarded a boat to Greece which almost immediately sank. (dawn.com)

Eighty-two percent of children were fully immunized against all the diseases in the vaccination schedule of Afghanistan. (cdc.gov)

During a week when tentative peace talks are underway in war-scarred Afghanistan, a watchdog delivered another bleak assessment of U.S.-backed efforts to stabilize and rebuild that country, citing receding control of land, persistent corruption and greater expenses ahead. (govexec.com)
But, as a result, Afghanistan has been left to cope with a system that has proved ill-suited to a country with weak institutions, an essentially decentralized polity, and a diverse society. (thediplomat.com)
The UK accidentally evacuated someone who was on its n0-fly list from Afghanistan, but later said it deemed the person safe enough to enter the country. (yahoo.com)
Our goal with all of our projects within Mountain2Mountain is to run a green thread throughout with the intention of partnering with sustainable partners that can help us achieve our goals with sustainable, minimalist impact, especially in a country as 'impacted' as Afghanistan. (goalzero.com)
Mr. Takeshi Watanabe, Chief Representative of JICA Afghanistan, and Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Country Representative, sign a 3-year cooperation agreement to fight TB. (who.int)

The veterans acknowledge the heartbreaking images coming from Afghanistan, and urge continued efforts to get Afghan interpreters and others to safety, writing, "There is no clean way to exit another country's civil war, especially as one government falls and another takes power. (votevets.org)
Rural Afghanistan, overlooking Paktia province in the country's east. (latimes.com)

Medvedev's foreign policy advisor Sergei Prikhodko said ahead of the meeting that Russia would be interested in delivering helicopters to Afghanistan. (thedailystar.net)

On Friday, the United States issued general licenses, allowing the US government, NGOs and certain international organizations to engage in transactions that are necessary to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. (asianage.com)

It seems, during the Doha conferences, they realised that their resumption of power in Afghanistan now needs international recognition - they realised that to survive, they must rule, not terrorise. (aljazeera.com)
Today, the US and European liberal media are terribly embarrassed by the Taliban's rapid rise to power, and the evident (but misleading) futility of the US and its allies' military adventure in Afghanistan. (aljazeera.com)
The communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in 1978, and its policies sparked a popular uprising. (wikipedia.org)

The compromises achieved by Secretary Kerry's intervention acknowledge that Afghanistan would be better served by a governing structure that dilutes presidential authority and encourages greater political inclusiveness through the sharing of state and executive powers between a president and prime minister. (thediplomat.com)

Because TB is the common threat of both Japan and Afghanistan, so far and from now on, Japan will continue to work closely with the Afghan government and international partners for anti-TB cooperation. (who.int)

A Boeing 737-200 aircraft from the Palam-based Communication squadron took off from here on Saturday morning to bring back all dead bodies and those injured, IAF officials said here. (thehindu.com)
Last year, Pakistani officials voiced fears the pipeline would never become a reality because of fighting in Afghanistan. (eurasianet.org)

According to a UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) 2006 statistic, Afghanistan has 165 deaths for every 1,000 live birth. (christianpost.com)

In Afghanistan, avian cases were confirmed from February through April 2007 in 4 of 34 provinces ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
The response in Afghanistan was to cull all poultry within a 3-km radius, restrict poultry movement and importation, and conduct intensive influenza-like illness surveillance and information, education, and communication (IEC) campaigns within affected provinces. (cdc.gov)
Five provinces in Afghanistan were selected as a convenience sample (accessibility) that included both affected and unaffected areas. (cdc.gov)
We conducted a facility-based cross-sectional survey of antipoliovirus antibodies in children in 14 provinces of Afghanistan. (cdc.gov)

An organization called 'Women Giving Back' is collecting hijabs and coats to give out to some who could really use a helping hand right now. (wusa9.com)
Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the general's remarks were a "very difficult and unpalatable message", particularly for women and girls in Afghanistan. (sky.com)
Midwives are especially needed in Afghanistan because cultural constraints mean that rarely are male doctors allowed to assist women giving birth and there are few midwives, especially in rural areas. (christianpost.com)
Above all, it acted as if it was invading Afghanistan to liberate Afghan women from their burqas and make them all look just like American women. (aljazeera.com)
A group of four women has dedicated themselves to preserving an ancient tradition of woodcarving, found in a mountainous and remote region of eastern Afghanistan. (rferl.org)
In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", which is a summary of her MA thesis, author Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated Afghan women and investigates their perspectives on education as an empowerment tool, in addition to their challenges and motivations for contributing to the promotion of women's education in Afghanistan. (lu.se)
Her academic work focuses on women's rights in Afghanistan and various aspects of the lives of Afghan women in Sweden. (lu.se)

This corruption harms the battlefield effectiveness of the Afghan security forces by diverting resources meant for fighting units and creating negative perceptions of the Afghan government," undermining its legitimacy and reconciliation efforts, said the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan. (govexec.com)
The bricks are energy-efficient, fireproof, non combustible, fireproof, and bulletproof (a useful consideration for a security wall in Afghanistan) They are also providing solar, wind, and hydro solutions to the electricity issue prevalent in Afghanistan where electricity is still unstable at best, and non-existant in many communities. (goalzero.com)
In her study, Maliha argues that efforts to promote girls' right to education in Afghanistan continue to be undermined by sociocultural norms, while the complex security situation in Afghanistan further explains why so many girls remain without education. (lu.se)

The puppet government set up by the United States has very little popular support and the U.S.-backed military forces have no will to fight. (fightbacknews.org)
Afghanistan will need the support of friends and great countries like Russia. (thedailystar.net)
Recent years have not only witnessed an alarming decline in American public support to the US engagement in Afghan War, believed to be an unnecessary entanglement in a foreign war, but also a swift rise in suspicions about the ambiguous US objectives in Afghanistan and American war effort against terrorism. (globalvillagespace.com)
LONDON (AP) - Britain's Prince Harry says he didn't have the support he needed when he returned home from combat in Afghanistan as he reached out to other veterans in a new Netflix series about the Invictus Games for injured soldiers. (kfor.com)
The funds will support continuous efforts by the Government of Afghanistan through WHO and partners to provide critical medicines to treat drug-susceptible as well as drug-resistant tuberculosis. (who.int)

Relief sets in almost instantly as the engine passes over the family's eastern Afghanistan compound and disappears in the distance. (latimes.com)

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Kabul9

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20211

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Qaeda1

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