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Key Afghan city falls to Taliban in major government setback

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Five years of Taliban rule: How Afghanistan has changed since the fall of Kabul

Five years ago, on August 15, 2021, thousands of Afghans rushed to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, desperate to leave the country as Taliban fighters entered the capital virtually ...
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Germany leads European push to expand Afghan deportations through Taliban deals

Germany and other European governments are negotiating with the Taliban to speed up Afghan deportations, The New York Times reported on October 12. The talks, which officials describe as technical ...
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Afghan district falls to Taliban: officials

The Taliban on Saturday captured a district in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province, near the provincial capital where militants scored their biggest victory in 14 years last September. The ...
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WTH Is Going on with the Taliban Takeover? Frederick Kagan on the Fall of Kabul, the Afghan Army’s Role, and Biden’s Surrender to the Taliban

Almost 20 years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban are back in control of the country. After President Biden’s decision to depart Afghanistan regardless of ...
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The 'ghost city': How Kabul looked through her eyes on the day it fell

The fall of Kabul and everything she carries five years later. Two days after Salma's engagement party in Kabul, the Taliban swept back to power in Afghanistan. "I woke up and I imagined so many ...
American Enterprise Institute

Afghanistan Rising: It’s Time to Let the Taliban Fall

Ukraine and its resistance have captured the Western imagination in a way Afghanistan never did. European leaders and Congressional delegations head to Kyiv to have their photographs taken with ...
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We must stand with the Afghan women resisting the Taliban

Roshana Dadgar, an Afghan woman living in exile in Pakistan, from where she highlights the brutality of the Taliban regime ...
Digital Journal

Two more cities fall to Taliban as thousands flee northern Afghanistan

A cyclist rides past a booth with a Taliban flag in the main square of the northern city of Kunduz on August 9, 2021, after it was captured by the insurgents ...
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As darkness falls

As the Taliban swiftly approached Kabul, many foreign journalists were already leaving. By 15 August, British journalist Charlie Faulkner had decided to stay and report from the ground. The farewells ...
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Afghan Lawmakers Warn Key Province Might Fall To Insurgents

Afghan lawmakers have warned that a strategic province might fall into the hands of the Taliban if Kabul fails to act swiftly. Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of the ...