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Joe Biden defends US actions in Afghanistan, says Afghan political leaders fled and military was unwilling to fight Taliban

OpIndia Staff -
Joe Biden said the US was not in Afghanistan to create a centralized democracy and build the nation. He blamed the Afghan leaders for fleeing and their military for being unwilling to fight the Taliban.
News Reports

Afghanistan: Indian ambassador in Kabul n his staff to be evacuated, MEA says all Indians will be brought back in a day or two

OpIndia Staff -
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi has just informed that the Indian ambassador in Kabul and his staff members will be brought back to India immediately.
Political History of India

Amidst the Afghanistan crisis, read how India presided over the world’s largest citizen evacuation operation during Iraq-Kuwait war in 1990

Jinit Jain -
India's unprecedented evacuation of over 1,70,000 stranded citizens from Kuwait was depicted in the Bollywood movie Airlift.
World

Afghan students in Pakistan raise Afghanistan flags, shout slogans, Pakistanis panic

OpIndia Staff -
The Afghan flags were raised in Pakistan on August 15, the very same day Taliban took control over Afghanistan.
Editor's picks

‘Just because they oppress women they don’t have stakes?’: The Wire provides platform to journalist who legitimises Taliban

OpIndia Staff -
Ghazala Wahab tells The Wire Taliban is a 'legitimate stakeholder' of Afghanistan so they should not be termed terrorists.
News Reports

Amid uncertainty in home country, Afghanistan cricketers Mohammed Nabi and Rashid Khan to be available for IPL 2021 in UAE

OpIndia Staff -
"We haven't spoken on what is happening at present, but they are available for the tournament..." confirmed SRH CEO K Shanmugam.
Culture and History

The destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas: How the Taliban obliterated the 6th-century monuments to deny their own past

Jinit Jain -
In March 2001, the Talibani terrorists knocked down the millennium and a half old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley in central Afghanistan
World

Afghans spotted falling from the sky after hanging on to tyres of planes leaving Kabul Airport to escape Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
Afghans hanging on to the tyres of flights leaving the country from the Kabul Airport were seen falling off from the sky after take-off.
OpIndia Explains

Fall of Saigon: When the US suffered a humiliating loss in Vietnam, and why Kabul is a reminder

OpIndia Staff -
The evacuation of US embassy personnel in Kabul echoes with the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam's Saigon in 1975
Social Media Fact-Check

Did CNN praise Taliban for wearing masks during attacks in Afghanistan? Fact Check

OpIndia Staff -
The screenshot of an alleged CNN report has gone viral where the channel could be seen praising Taliban for "wearing masks".
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