Celebratory gunfire resounded across #Kabul on Tuesday (August 31) as #Taliban fighters took control of the #airport before dawn, after the withdrawal of the last US troops.The transition presents an enormous test for the Islamists in a desperately poor, diplomatically isolated country.

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#Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Antony #Blinken in a phone call on Sunday that the international community should engage with #Afghanistan’s new #Taliban rulers and “positively guide” them, China’s foreign ministry said. FRANCE 24’s Charles Pellegrin tells us more.

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US Spying Operations Just Got a Lot Harder in Afghanistan  The Daily Beast

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Afghanistan Pullout Deadline Is Here. What Happens Next?  Daily Signal

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Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd targeted by hypocritical far-right backlash  MSNBC

1. NBC’s Richard Engel: Biden’s Afghan withdrawal was ‘the worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes’  Fox News
2. Afghan Family Says U.S. Missile Killed 10, Including 7 Children  The New York Times
3. Johnson: Afghanistan withdrawal ‘botched’  WISN 12 News
4. Afghans in Belgium organise protest, slam Pakistan for supporting Taliban  Hindustan Times
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Macron visits the former IS group’s stronghold in Iraq city of Mosul  FRANCE 24 English

Hashtag Trending August 31 – Hackers retire; China limits online game play-time; Canadian battery lawsuit settlement  ITBusiness.ca

How the US got right back where it started in Afghanistan  erienewsnow.com

What the CIA Didn’t Tell President Bush When He Returned from Vacation  Newsweek

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Japan confirms first case of new type of delta variant  The Japan Times

China’s economy is being rattled by the Delta variant and supply chain woes  CNN

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks that propelled the US into its longest war, the last US troops have left Afghanistan. More than 800,000 US soldiers were deployed there over the past two decades. The Taliban have now retaken control of nearly the whole country. Should the US have pulled out? Could the Biden administration have handled the withdrawal better? What will happen after US troops are gone? Our correspondents met with US citizens whose lives have been changed forever by the conflict.

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BBC breaks down America’s 20 years in Afghanistan by president  The Week Magazine

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Putin Gives Cash to Police, Soldiers Ahead of Polls  The Moscow Times

The Cold War is over — or is it?  The Hill