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WASHINGTON: On alert for more terrorist attacks, the US military has begun its final withdrawal from Afghanistan in the closing stages of a frantic airlift of Americans, Afghans and others desperate to escape Taliban rule before the…

KABUL: The Taliban have said that there was "no proof" that slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Taliban, which provided safe harbour to Osama bin Laden for several years…

KABUL: In the days since taking power in Afghanistan, a wide range of Taliban figures have entered Kabul -- hardened commandos, armed madrassa students and greying leaders back from years of exile. There has been one major exception --…

PARIS: Here are the main developments since the Taliban seized Kabul, taking power again in Afghanistan after two decades of war. On August 15, Taliban fighters appear on the edge of Kabul after a lightning offensive launched in May as…

AMSTERDAM: The Taliban will shut down Afghanistan's media and are fooling the West by promising to let journalists operate freely, an award-winning Afghan photographer said after fleeing Kabul over threats by the group. Massoud Hossaini,…

WASHINGTON: The United States urged its citizens Friday to "immediately" leave the gates around Kabul's airport, where a suicide bomber this week targeted crowds trying to flee Taliban rule. Earlier Friday, the Pentagon said that the…

WASHINGTON: Nearly 111,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the start of evacuation operations on August 14, the Pentagon said on Friday. The Taliban took control of Afghanistan on August 15. Their sudden victory, which…

The final stage of US-led evacuations from Kabul airport resumed on Friday morning, a day after devastating suicide bombings left more than 170 people dead and over 200 injured. The evacuations and foreign troop withdrawals are planned…

BEIRUT: A few days after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a convoy of militants drove through the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria in cars bearing the group's white-and-black flags, honking horns and firing their guns in the air.…

KABUL: The Taliban took control of parts of Kabul airport on Friday, a spokesman announced, as an August 31 deadline for the United States and its allies to complete evacuations looms. "Today, three important locations in the military…