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'This is not Saigon': Blinken says Afghanistan is different than Vietnam
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denies that the withdrawal from Kabul is similar to the one in Saigon at the close of the Vietnam War because the US has completed its mission in bringing the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks to justice in Afghanistan.
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'This is not Saigon': Blinken says Afghanistan is different than Vietnam
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Refugees start new life in America after fleeing Afghanistan
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Afghan girls' robotics team speaks out after fleeing Taliban
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Gunshots at the airport and tents in Germany. Hear one family's journey out of Afghanistan
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People inspect the inside of a mosque following a bombing in Kunduz province northern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. A powerful explosion in the mosque frequented by a Muslim religious minority in northern Afghanistan on Friday has left several casualties, witnesses and the Taliban's spokesman said. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)
Shia mosque in Afghanistan devastated by explosion
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Afghan medical staff members stand at the entrance of a hospital as they wait to receive the victims of an explosion in Kabul on October 3, 2021. (Photo by Hoshang HASHIMI / AFP) (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
Taliban: Explosion kills civilians attending funeral prayers
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CNN speaks to family of victims killed by US military's wrongful drone strike
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See what's happening to Afghan refugees arriving in the UK
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Ward: Afghanistan is a humanitarian crisis in the making
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See what CNN reporter saw inside US air base now under Taliban control
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'Awful conditions': See camp for displaced Afghans on Kabul's periphery
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When the Taliban were closing in on Kabul, Italian educator Selene Biffi reached out to her former Afghan students. Three of her students and their families made it out of Aghanistan and after quarantine they were finally reunited with their teacher. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
As Taliban took over, she sent a message to her old teacher. See what happened next
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Hear from female judge hiding in Afghanistan as Taliban threaten her for her work
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Mahbouba Seraj, human rights activist and CEO of Afghan Women's Network, sits down with CNN's Nic Robertson in Kabul, Afghanistan to talk about the deteriorating situation of women's rights under Taliban rule.
'What are they going to do? Kill all of us?': Hear from female activist in Kabul
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CNN's Becky Anderson sits down with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan for a wide ranging interview. Rejecting accusations of tacit support for the Taliban, Khan spoke about opening up the airways to Kabul and an aid route -- as well as relations with the US and the growing influence with China.
'It could go to chaos': Hear Pakistani PM's concern about Afghanistan
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Stranded Afghan military pilots on the move toward freedom
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