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          Read the latest news about the extremist group governing Afghanistan after American-led coalition forces withdrew in 2021

          Afghans wait in long lines for hours to try to withdraw money, in front of Kabul Bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. AP

          Afghanistan’s economy teeters on brink of collapse

          EconomyAugust 16, 2021
          Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has weighed in on the situation in Afghanistan on social media, along with other cultural commentators. AFP

          Malala is 'deeply worried' about women and minorities in Afghanistan

          CommentAugust 16, 2021
          Former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali. AFP

          Who is Afghanistan's new potential interim leader?

          AsiaAugust 16, 2021
          Members of the Taliban outside the international airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021. Thousands of foreign diplomats and UN workers are being flown out of the Afghan capital on flights. Reuters

          UAE moving Emirati and foreign diplomats out of Afghanistan

          UAEAugust 16, 2021
          Taliban fighters have taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. AP

          Afghans awake to a new era as Taliban leaders prepare for power

          WorldAugust 16, 2021
          Captain James Cadbury did a nine month tour in Afghanistan, after serving in Iraq as well.

          Ex-British Army officer who fought Taliban tells of his anger and sorrow as Kabul falls

          UAEAugust 16, 2021
          US soldiers stand at attention as they pay their respects to a fallen soldier in eastern Afghanistan on July 10, 2011. AFP

          Afghanistan war veterans are devastated by Taliban gains

          USAugust 15, 2021
          Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani addresses the nation in a message in Kabul, Afghanistan August 14, 2021. Mr Ghani has left Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents surrounded the capital, on Sunday, after they captured swathes of the country in a 10-day escalation.

          'The Taliban have won', President Ashraf Ghani says as he flees Afghanistan

          AsiaAugust 15, 2021
          Taliban fighters stand guard along a roadside near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul. AFP

          Taliban’s return to Kabul revives fears I saw fall away 20 years ago

          AsiaAugust 15, 2021
          A US Air Force military transport helicopter flies over Kabul. Reuters

          US scrambles to speed up departure of Kabul embassy staff

          USAugust 15, 2021
          A flydubai representative says the airline will contact passengers to discuss their options after a flight to Kabul was forced to return to Dubai on Sunday.

          Emirates and Flydubai suspend flights to Kabul as UAE airlines are forced to turn back

          UAEAugust 15, 2021
          Taliban fighters and local residents sit on an Afghan National Army humvee vehicle in Laghman province.

          UK Parliament to be recalled to discuss Afghanistan

          AsiaAugust 15, 2021
          A US military helicopter flies over the country's embassy in Kabul.

          US to remove all embassy staff from Afghanistan in next 72 hours

          The AmericasAugust 15, 2021
          Internally displaced families from northern provinces, who fled from their homes due to the fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces, take shelter in a public park in Kabul on August 14, 2021. EPA

          Afghan in UAE desperate to find safe shelter for family in Kabul

          UAEAugust 15, 2021
          Taliban forces patrol a street in the western Afghan city of Herat. Reuters

          Kabul is Afghanistan's last frontier as Taliban take key city of Jalalabad

          WorldAugust 15, 2021
          U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, commander, U.S. Central Command, arrives to brief the media at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S. April 29, 2016 about the investigation of the airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

          Former US Centcom chief: military 'insufficient' to achieve Afghanistan goals

          USAugust 15, 2021
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