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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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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Posted inNation & World
‘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.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Polman: It was always going to end this way in Afghanistan
Anyone who professes to be shocked by the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has not been paying attention. It was always bound to happen. It was merely delayed because Uncle Sam kept his trillion-dollar finger in the dike for 20 years. Were we fated to remain forever, in a land that had already proved fatally inhospitable […]
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U.S. agencies scrub websites to protect Afghans left behind
In some of the now-disabled Agriculture Department posts, several contained details that would clearly be viewed by the Taliban as proof of collaboration, such as names and photos.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Afghan collapse follows 20 years of U.S. missteps, watchdog says
On Tuesday, a special inspector general released a report highlighting the poor understanding America had of Afghanistan from the very beginning.
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Taliban agree to allow ‘safe passage’ for U.S. airlift from Kabul, Pentagon says
The goal was to ramp up to hourly evacuation flights by Wednesday, with potentially a total of 5,000 to 9,000 evacuees leaving per day, the spokesmen say.
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Taliban vow to respect women, despite history of oppression
Older generations remember the Taliban’s ultraconservative Islamic views, which included severe restrictions on women as well as public stonings and amputations.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Afghan government collapses and Taliban on verge of controlling country: 5 essential reads
THE CONVERSATION — The president of Afghanistan has fled and the government apparently fallen, after Taliban insurgents captured the capital city of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021. The Taliban also seized the presidential palace. There would be “no transitional government in Afghanistan,” Taliban officials told Reuters news service. The insurgent group “expects a complete handover of power.” According to the Associated Press, […]