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epa09416727 German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a statement to the media regrading the current situation in Afghanistan, in Berlin, Germany, 16 August 2021. Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar on 16 August 20201 declared victory and end to the decades-long war in Afghanistan, a day after the insurgents entered Kabul to take control of the country. Baradar, who heads the Taliban political office in Qatar, released a short video message after President Ashraf Ghani fled and conceded that the insurgents had won the 20-year war. EPA/OMER MESSINGER / POOL