Daily Mail Online Article Rating

Taliban fighters take control of the skies above Afghanistan

Aug 14, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    44% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    38% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -45% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : As Western embassies prepare to send in troops to help evacuate staff, the United Nations said its 320 staff members would remain.
46% : On Thursday, the group took of Kandahar and Herat, marking the biggest prizes yet for the Taliban, who have taken 12 of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals as part of a week-long blitz'The city looks like a front line, a ghost town,' provincial council member Ghulam Habib Hashimi said of Kandahar via telephone from Herat, a city of about 600,000 people near the border with Iran.
34% : The United Nations begged on Friday for neighbouring countries to keep their borders open to allow people to escape the Taliban, and U.N. agencies warned of a growing humanitarian catastrophe amid spreading hunger.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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