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President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans.

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Biden says Afghanistan evacuations 'not without risk of loss'

US President Joe Biden said the US mission was to evacuate Americans and their allies from Afghanistan.

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President Joe Biden walks from the podium after speaking about Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, in Washington.

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Joe Biden: Decision to leave Afghanistan 'the right one for America'

In a defiant address the US President defended the US troops pullout despite the Taliban's takeover, saying that keeping a US presence in Afghanistan was no longer a US national security interest.

16/08/2021

Smoke rises after fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, in Kandahar, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.

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On Monday the head of Angela Merkel's conservative party and possible successor to the German chancellor called the pullout NATO's "biggest debacle" since its creation.

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Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul

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The Taliban seized a province just south of Afghanistan's capital Kabul as the group continued to make military gains across the country on Saturday.

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An Afghan girl receives medical care at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) physical rehabilitation center after being injured in fighting between the Taliban

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More than 1,000 killed or injured in Afghanistan violence, says UN

It comes as the Taliban continue to advance, seizing control of its sixth city on August 9.

10/08/2021

Blast walls and a few buildings can be seen at the Bagram air base after the American military left the base, in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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US left Afghan airfield at night, didn't tell new commander

The U.S. left Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years without notifying the base's new commander, Afghan military officials said.

06/07/2021

President Biden will announce on Wednesday the Sept 11 withdrawal of troops

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‘Time to end forever war’: US troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan

US president Joe Biden has announced his plan to pull all remaining US forces out of Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the 2001 September 11 terror attacks.

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Soldiers attend the colour casing ceremony of the First Armored Division at the US Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany

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Euroviews. The Baltics missed out this time but the long pursuit of US troops in the region will pay off ǀ View

The long-term pursuit of having US boots on the ground in the Baltic region has so far not borne fruit. But while Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania lost out to Poland in the latest round of US troop deployments, the overarching trend shows it may happen sooner rather than later.

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