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U.N. Tells Afghanistan’s Reluctant Neighbors to Take Refugees

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday called on “countries neighboring Afghanistan to keep their borders open in light of the evolving crisis.” One of those neighbors is China, which has taken great delight in President Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, but shows very little interest in harboring refugees.

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Taliban Blocks Access to Kabul Airport

Pentagon correspondent Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose posted video on Thursday of the impenetrable “gauntlet” of checkpoints the Taliban has created around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

Taliban fighters patrol in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghani

U.N. Echoes Taliban PR: Calls for ‘Inclusive’ Afghanistan

The United Nations Security Council echoed the Taliban’s call for an “inclusive” Afghanistan in a statement on Monday, calling for an “inclusive and representative” new government that includes “the full, equal and meaningful participation of women.” The U.N. also urged the Taliban

KABUL, AFGANISTAN - AUGUST 13 : Displaced Afghan women and children from Kunduz pray at a

Russia Claims U.S. Coordinating Joint 9/11 Event with Moscow

In anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the deadly September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the United States and Russia will reportedly coordinate on a joint memorial for the dead, Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, announced in a Wednesday press conference.

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Iran Insists Executing Children Is Not a Human Rights Violation

Senior Iranian official Majid Tafreshi, a member of the Iranian regime’s High Council for Human Rights, argued on Wednesday that executing underage children is not a “symbol of violations of human rights.” Tafreshi said Iran executes children under 18 about “three or four times” a year.

Balal, who killed Iranian youth Abdolah Hosseinzadeh in a street fight with a knife in 200