🇨🇳 China lit up either a model or a prototype of a new helicopter. Looks like they are trying out stealth technology on a helicopter.

🇦🇫 Citizen stole blood pressure monitor from hospital, but Taliban found him, asked to return and apologize

GOLDI-LOCKED OUT?! Afghanistan has 22 TONS of gold in a vault in New York, The Taliban can’t touch it, according to Quartz.

Biden’s administration has frozen the Afghanistan government’s holdings in US-based banks, which prevents the Taliban from having access to billions of dollars, which are part of the country’s foreign reserves.

According to published figures from Afghanistan’s central bank, 22 tons of gold with a value of $1.25 billion is being stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

DA Afghanistan Bank, is said to own $10 billion in reserve assets scattered throughout US banks according to data published by the bank, which is now essentially frozen and untouchable for the Taliban as of this week.

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🇦🇫🇹🇷⚡ NATO member Turkey is open to cooperation with the Taliban - Erdogan

🇬🇧🇦🇫 According to British journalists in Kabul, special forces of the British Armed Forces, with the permission of the Taliban, are working directly in the city (outside the airport).

Their tasks include escorting British citizens and Afghan employees who wish to leave the country, but cannot get to the airport themselves.

🇹🇷🇷🇺🇦🇫⚡ Erdogan said he expects to hold talks with Vladmir Putin on the situation in Afghanistan at the end of the week

🇦🇫⚡Taliban sources say that tomorrow from 4 am onward there will be an indefinite curfew in Khost city and any movement will be stopped and "joint forces of Islamic Emirate" will carry out "clearing operation".

🇦🇫 Taliban's "Badri 313" commando units in Kabul are now wearing masks.

🇦🇫🇺🇲⚡ New warning from U.S. Embassy Kabul: The United States government "cannot ensure safe passage" to the airport in Kabul for evacuation.

🇦🇫🇺🇲 US military evacuated about 2,000 people from Kabul by air in the last 24 hours - Department of State

🇫🇷 French Media, AFP News Agency on twitter:

#BREAKING
— "Taliban violating promises on Afghans' access to airport, says US State Department No. 2"

🇺🇸🦅 American Independent Media, '@Breaking911' on August 17, 2021 on twitter:

"Sullivan:
— "The Taliban have informed us that they are prepared to provide the safe passage of civilians to the airport, and we intend to hold them to that commitment."

"...We are talking to them about what the exact timetable is for how this will all play out.""

🔗 Breaking911 (@Breaking911)

#Archive

🇺🇸🌐🗞 Washington Post | Opinion: The mujahideen resistance to the Taliban begins now. But we need help by Ahmad Massoud | 18-08-21
— "In 1998, when I was 9 years old, my father, the mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered his soldiers in a cave in the Panjshir Valley of northern Afghanistan. They sat and listened as my father’s friend, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, addressed them. “When you fight for your freedom,” Lévy said, “you fight also for our freedom.”

My father never forgot this as he fought against the Taliban regime. Up until the moment he was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001, at the behest of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, he was fighting for the fate of Afghanistan but also for the West.

Now this common struggle is more essential than ever in these dark, tense hours for my homeland."

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🇺🇲🇦🇫⚡Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff- There was nothing any of us saw that indicated the Afghan army would collapse in 11 days

🇦🇫🇺🇲 The NATO headquarters in Afghanistan.

❗️Taliban seizes US military biometric devices which can identify Afghans who aided coalition efforts in country (Intercept)

An unidentified JSOC official told The Intercept, that the Taliban acquired biometrics equipment that contains data like iris scans and fingerprints of Afghans who aided the US and allies in country.

They told The Intercept that the portable devices could be used to access sensitive information from large, centralized military databases, and potentially expose those who helped resist the Taliban.

The International Rescue Committee estimates that over 300,000 Afghan civilians were involved with the American mission over the past two decades.

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🇺🇸🗞 CBS News Journalist, Eena Ruffini on twitter:

#BREAKING
— "Video of the North Gate at Kabul Airport via colleague 'Alana Anyse' (@/alanacbs on twitter) from Americans trying to access the airport."

🔗 Ruffini (@EenaRuffini)

🇦🇫 Evening at the Kabul airport. People on the street are waiting for the opportunity to fly out of Afghanistan.

⚡️NOW: Shots fired at the entrance of Kabul airport as people still attempt to get inside.

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🇦🇫🇺🇲🏳️ Joint work of the Taliban and the US military against Afghans at the northern gate of the Kabul airport. The situation is developing in these minutes.