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Turkey helps senior Afghan officials leave country
Turkey helped a number of senior former Afghan government officials leave the country after the capital Kabul fell to the Taliban.
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As the turmoil gripped the country, Ankara made arrangements to repatriate Turkish citizens from Afghanistan.
As part of those plans, a plane belonging to Turkish Airlines was dispatched to Kabul to airlift Turkish citizens.
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Turkish foreign minister discusses Afghanistan with counterparts
Turkey's foreign minister on Aug. 18 discussed the latest situation in Afghanistan with his Russian, South Korean, Chinese, Tajik and Australian counterparts, according to diplomatic sources.
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Taliban will pretend to look like good boy: Expert
The Taliban will pretend to look like a good boy to the international community to keep control of war-torn Afghanistan and its collapsed economy, a Turkish international relations professor has said.
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After EU Foreign Ministers Meeting - Talks with Taliban Likely to Happen
The EU will have to talk with the Taliban after the group seized control of Afghanistan before officially recognising them, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said after online meeting of EU foreign ministers.
"The Taliban have won the war, so we will have to talk with them," he pointed out, while stressing this does not mean moving quickly to official recognition.
ЕU Will Have to Talk withTaliban before Official Recognition - Josep Borrell
The EU will have to talk with the Taliban after the group seized control of Afghanistan before recognising them, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday. "The Taliban have won the war, so we will have to talk with them," he pointed out, while stressing this does not mean moving quickly to official recognition. He was speaking after a EU foreign affairs ministers online meeting.
Montenegrins decide: "We do not accept refugees"
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, such a committment is not even foreseen by this statement.
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Taliban Force Underage Girls into Marriages with their Fighters
As the Taliban is gaining ground in Afghanistan by capturing many key cities in the country, the terror group is now forcing women to get married to its terrorists. Afghans pouring into Kabul and those still in Taliban-held areas say they have witnessed unprovoked attacks on civilians and executions of captured soldiers.
U.S. soldiers fired shots at Kabul airport VIDEO
That information was also confirmed by the Pentagon, the media report.
Footage from the airport shows soldiers defending the space at the airport, while the crowd tries to break through the barbed wire fence.
At that moment, the soldiers fired bullets to calm the people gathered as "crowd control measure".
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Montenegro Dismisses Media Reports About Hosting Afghan Refugees
Montenegro will not host any Afghan refugees fleeing the country after the Taliban took control of Kabul, Montenegro's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Think Tank Defends Serbia Hosting Secret Afghan Govt-Taliban Talks
After Serbia's former foreign minister Ivica Dacic on Tuesday claimed that Serbia had hosted talks between the now former Afghan government and the Taliban three times in recent years, the director of East-West Bridge think tank - which reportedly organised the negotiations - told BIRN that Dacic's information was accurate, backing it up with photos from the meetings.