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JAPAN
Sep 19, 2021
Aid groups in Japan vow to continue support for Afghanistan
Humanitarian organizations in Japan have said they are determined to continue support for Afghanistan despite deteriorating security and logistics issues following the Taliban's takeover.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 18, 2021
U.S. says Kabul drone strike killed 10 civilians — including children — in 'tragic mistake'
The killing of civilians, in a strike carried out by a drone based outside Afghanistan, has raised questions about the future of U.S. counterterrorism strikes in the country.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2021
Can America learn from its defeat in Afghanistan?
The value of an independent commission to examine the U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal is that it would offer some insulation from the daily pressures of Washington politics.
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MORE SPORTS
Sep 16, 2021
Female athletes flee Afghanistan as Taliban bars women from sports
An Afghan national female soccer team and their relatives have crossed into Pakistan en route to Europe and the U.S., an official at the country’s soccer federation said, as local media reported they were fleeing from threats after the Taliban barred their participation in sports.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2021
Afghanistan’s forsaken gender
While those of us in advanced economies contemplate the excesses of our modern society, Afghan women face an acute threat of being plunged back into the dark ages.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2021
Afghan resistance in desperate need of world’s support
The anti-Taliban cause is both just and necessary as a dizzying array of terrorist organizations are already gathering in Afghanistan after the government's fall.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2021
Building a better world in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle
Instead of exporting war, countries such as the U.S. could export technology together with human capital, such as teachers and doctors, to help create a better world.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2021
Basic lessons from two decades of conflict in Afghanistan
The resources — financial, human, intellectual — of the world's richest countries were unable to prevail in the contest for the future of Afghanistan
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 14, 2021
Taliban ‘conundrum’ forcing strange bedfellows on Afghanistan
World leaders one after another have called for international cooperation even as they jockey to gain influence in the great power vacuum that the U.S. departure has left behind.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 14, 2021
‘Imminent threat’ or aid worker: Did a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan kill the wrong person?
The New York Times obtained exclusive security camera footage and witness accounts to show how the military launched a drone strike that killed 10 people in Kabul on Aug. 29 without knowing who it was hitting.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2021
The Biden administration's Afghan nightmare
The handling of the retreat from Afghanistan has revealed much about the nature of Joe Biden's government and how he runs it.
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JAPAN
Sep 13, 2021
First group of Afghan evacuees arrive in Japan, with more expected
Japan will continue to seek the safe evacuation of Afghan staff of Japanese organizations and others from the country qualifying for refuge by air and other means.
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WORLD
Sep 12, 2021
‘Everything changed overnight’: Afghan reporters face an intolerant regime
'No one dares to ask the Taliban about their past wrongdoings and the atrocities they have committed.”
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WORLD
Sep 11, 2021
In U.S. drone strike, evidence suggests no Islamic State bomb
U.S. officials said a Reaper drone followed a car for hours and then fired based on evidence it was carrying explosives. But an in-depth analysis and interviews cast doubt on that account.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2021
20 years on, the 'war on terror' grinds along with no end in sight
The 'war on terror' waxes and wanes, largely in the shadows and out of the headlines — less an epochal clash than a low-grade condition and one that flares up occasionally.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2021
About 10 Afghan evacuation-seekers enter Pakistan to head for Japan
The Afghans, who entered neighboring Pakistan by land on their own, will head for Japan on Sunday at the earliest, sources said.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 10, 2021
Inside the abandoned Kabul mansion Taliban soldiers call home
More than 150 fighters have taken over the residence of a notorious Afghan warlord. Many are adjusting to a new lifestyle while awaiting orders from the new government.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2021
A crippling blow to the global 'war on terror'
The U.S. has come full circle by ceding control of Afghanistan to the same organization that gave Osama bin Laden the base from which to plot the 9/11 attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2021
Afghan journalists beaten in Taliban detention, editor says
Incidents of abuse since the Taliban came to power have raised doubts among some Afghans.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2021
What does Afghanistan reveal about the Biden doctrine?
Has the Biden doctrine arrived in time to counter China's rise or did the U.S.' two decades of war in Afghanistan leave China with too much of a head start to be stopped?

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