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Afghanistan remittance payouts limited to local currency -sources

REUTERS Afghanistan's central bank has ordered banks to pay out remittances in local currency only, the latest move to preserve scarce U.S. dollars, say sources familiar with the matter. Hard currency remittances have formed an important so..
Qatar, Russia desires Afghan humanitarian aid to be freed from political developments

Moscow: HE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani underlined that Qatar and Russia agree on the need to find a solution to the situation in Afghanistan, and that humanitarian aid should be indep..
Twenty years after 9/11, one of the last U.S. Marines killed in Afghanistan comes home

REUTERS U.S. Marine Sergeant Johanny Rosario returned to her hometown in Massachusetts in a casket on Saturday, one of the last American service members killed in Afghanistan during a war set in motion exactly two decades ago by the Sept. 11, 2001..
Unaccompanied children evacuated from Afghanistan in Qatar limbo

AFP The daily life of unaccompanied Afghan refugee children in Qatar is punctuated by recurring questions, "where are we going?" and "can I have some chips". About 200 uprooted young Afghans arrived in Doha aboard flights fr..
US marks 20 years since 9/11, in shadow of Afghan war’s end

AP Americans solemnly marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday, remembering the dead, invoking the heroes and taking stock of the aftermath just weeks after the bloody end of the Afghanistan war that was launched in response to th..
US envoy praises Qatar for Afghanistan flights

More than 250 foreign nationals have left Afghanistan in the past three days, says Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington’s special envoy and the architect of an often criticized deal with the Taliban. The deal signed last year provided for the safe w..
Taliban response to Afghan protests increasingly violent, UN says

REUTERS The U.N. rights office on Friday said that the Taliban response to peaceful marches in Afghanistan has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons and whips and causing the deaths of at least four protesters. ..
First commercial flight from Afghanistan since US exit lands in Qatar

REUTERS The first international commercial flight since the end of last month's chaotic Western airlift from Afghanistan left Kabul airport on Thursday with more than 100 passengers on board, officials said. As well as offering hope to peop..
Qatar, Pakistan call for unconditional humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

REUTERS Pakistan and Qatar on Thursday called on the international community not to make humanitarian aid to Afghanistan conditional on political developments under the new Taliban government. “To save lives and the people of Afghanistan,..

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