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The American public will not be in a forgiving mood if al-Qaida rises again following US withdrawal and the Taliban advanceWhat will it take for Joe Biden to admit he is disastrously wrong about Afghanistan? The US leader struck a defiant pose last wee…
The Taliban’s rapid advance is chilling but a united response can still avert catastropheThe fall of Afghanistan to fundamentalist Taliban forces is a disaster foretold. Although the capital, Kabul, remains in government hands, the scale and speed of t…
Mazar-i-Sharif was a government stronghold and its loss leaves only Kabul and another city unconqueredThe Taliban captured Mazar-i-Sharif, the country’s fourth-largest city and the government’s last major stronghold in the north on Saturday, as they ti…
Chris Riddell on the resurgence of the Taliban• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading…
Ashraf Ghani says focus is on preventing ‘further instability, violence and displacement’Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, held urgent talks with local leaders and international partners on Saturday as Taliban rebels pushed closer to Kabul, captur…
Afghanistan’s second city was the capital of the jihadist group until 2001 and has vital strategic and symbolic importanceIn the sprawling compound of Mullah Omar, the Taliban’s first emir, outside the southern city of Kandahar, curious onlookers were …
People are losing their homes, their freedom and their hope. That should be more of a priority than US credibility“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’ll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan…
Rout of government forces beginning in city of Zaranj has left country in chaos and western leaders looking on in dismayThe end for Afghan forces in the south-western provincial capital of Zaranj, a trading hub close to the Iranian border, was announce…
Insurgents’ seemingly unstoppable advance continues as they close in on KabulThe Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable advance across Afghanistan continued on Friday, as insurgents took control of four more provincial capitals after their seizure on Thursda…
Whatever happens next in Afghanistan, a humanitarian catastrophe is already in train | Hameed Hakimi
Even before the western withdrawal and Taliban resurgence, the country was on its knees. A refugee crisis is now inevitableIn recent days, a ferocious wave of fighting has enveloped Afghanistan as the Taliban take more and more territory from the Afgha…
As horror stories emerge from areas that have fallen to the Islamist militants, women living alone fear they have no route of escapeThere’s an old saying in Afghanistan that encapsulates the country’s views on divorce: “A woman only leaves her father’s…
Ben Wallace says troop pullout had given Taliban momentum and ‘international community will probably pay the consequences’The UK defence secretary has criticised the US decision to leave Afghanistan as a “mistake” that has handed the Taliban “momentum”…
Soldiers to arrive within 48 hours to provide security and support for US embassy personnel in KabulUS and other western military planners are accelerating plans for the evacuation of embassy staff in Afghanistan as Kabul is increasingly threatened by …
Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she canDespite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra…
Insurgents capture Ghazni city, giving them control of approaches to capital from north and southThe Taliban have tightened their grip on the approaches to Kabul, taking control of a key city on the main road south as the threat to several other major …