If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins.
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2020.08.28 retaliation ⪢⪢
Today in Afghanistan, the U.S. striking back, delivering on the promise of retaliation for a suicide bombing at Kabul airport 48 hours earlier. #bookmark
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2021.08.12 Kabul ⪢⪢
The U.S. State Department says the country is sending 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to help bring home workers from the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
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2021.08.16 evacuation ⪢⪢
Seven people are dead at the Kabul airport, as thousands of Afghans rush to the site attempting to leave the country, while western nations conduct evacuations.
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2021.08.16 flee ⪢⪢
America's nearly two decade long involvement in Afghanistan is coming to an abrupt and chaotic end. Today Taliban fires took control of the capital Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani suddenly fled the country.
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2021.08.17 guarantee ⪢⪢
In Afghanistan, Taliban rulers say they will respect women's rights under Islamic law, forgive Taliban resisters and guarantee a secure Afghanistan.
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2021.08.17 hold off ⪢⪢
Amid all the evacuations from Afghanistan, one country is holding off. China is urging its citizens to remain indoors in Afghanistan but it is keeping its Kabul embassy open.
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2021.08.18 bewilder ⪢⪢
In this remarkable photo, you can see the entire plane jammed with fleeing Afghans.
Take a closer look: A baby drinking milk and bewildered children fleeing their homeland with only what they could carry.
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2021.08.28 backlash ⪢⪢
President Biden receiving fierce backlash from both parties after the deadly attack in Kabul yesterday that left 13 US service members dead and over 160 Afghans dead as well.
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They battled their way onto civilion planes which took off with hundreds of passengers jammed inside. One air traffic controller marveled as a pilot ferry 800 people to Dubai in a plane designed for 150.
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The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ⪢⪢
is a landlocked mineral-rich country in Central Asia.
It is bordered by Pakistan to the south and east, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to the north and has small border with China in its far north-east.
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