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Fierce fighting reported in western city of Qala-i-Naw, with militants seizing police HQ and spy officesThe Taliban launched an assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the first since the US military began its final drawdown of tro…
Militants’ advance continues as Britain nears end of its two-decade deployment to countryThe Taliban’s rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the fina…
As the west departs, the Taliban are resurgent. They say they have changed – but misogyny and brutality still mark their ruleThe public flogging in Obe district, captured on video that quickly went viral this spring, was a mistake, a local Taliban judg…
This shabby, half-hidden retreat by western forces abandons a nation to mayhem, civil war and terrorThe conflict in Afghanistan – America’s longest war – is at an end, or so President Joe Biden is expected to declare this week. At an end, too, is Brita…
Citizens react to spiralling violence with militants seizing at least 50 of county’s nearly 400 districts since MayHaji Ghoulam Farouq Siawshani watched the Taliban rampage across northern Afghanistan this month, weighing up the threat from militants o…
• Biden: those who helped US ‘are not going to be left behind’• Operation expected to include up to 50,000 peopleJoe Biden has vowed that Afghans who helped the US military “are not going to be left behind” as his administration stepped up planning to …
Former AusAid adviser who was target of suicide bomb says Australia must evacuate his colleaguesA former Australian foreign affairs staffer who was the target of a suicide bombing in Afghanistan after receiving Taliban “night letters” is pleading for t…
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Little has been achieved in 20 years of war, and as the Taliban regroup, ordinary Afghans brace for an uncertain futureMilitary retreats from Afghanistan are problematic, as the British (1842) and the Red Army (1989) discovered to their cost. The cliff…
Government has granted 90 visas to Afghans who worked with Australian forces, but they say they need military flights to flee revenge of the Taliban The federal government says it has granted an extra 90 visas since the beginning of May to Afghan nati…
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Taliban and government forces clash in Helmand, the scene of intense battles following US troop withdrawalFighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces has resumed in the southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day ceas…
Hazara community in mourning but defiant after more than 60 people killed in school bomb blastsLatifa and Hosnia had been sharing a wooden bench in their classroom at Kabul’s Sayed Al-Shuhada school for the past three years.When Latifa transferred to S…
Last week’s massacre of schoolgirls showed just how grim the years ahead could be. The US and its allies cannot disclaim responsibilityThe three-day Eid ceasefire announced by the Taliban is a rare and brief respite for Afghans. The country is reeling …
Bus attack comes after jihadist group denies atrocity at secondary school that killed at least 50 people At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in the bombing of a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province.The blast took place late o…