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An Afghan Sikh family of 13 has found refuge in the diaspora community on Long Island.

The Taliban are marking a year since they seized the Afghan capital of Kabul

The Taliban are marking a year since they seized the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani agreed on Sunday that the Trump’s administration’s deal with the Taliban that intended to lead to the U.S. withdrawing troops from the country was a disaster. During an appearance on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Ghani told host Fareed Zakaria that he was critical of the Afghan government being excluded from…

On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan’s former president has defended what he says was a split-second decision to flee.

A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country.

President Joe Biden is lauding the CIA as the “bedrock of our national security,” He visited the agency Friday to mark 75th anniversary since its founding after World War II.

The largely inconclusive report found it unlikely that former president Ashraf Ghani had taken huge amounts of money but did say that tens of millions were looted.

An inspector general report found that contrary to allegations, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani did not abscond with millions of dollars that went missing during the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

U.S. intelligence agencies have begun a review of how they judge the will and ability of foreign governments to fight.

Paranoia riddled the most senior levels of the Afghan government, and chaos overwhelmed the country’s security forces, according to a U.S. government watchdog report

Until last summer, Khalid Payenda was Afghanistan’s finance minister, overseeing a $6 billion budget.

Afghanistan’s former president has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.

Biden officials informed Afghan embassy staff to "register" their interest in relocating to the US, only hours before the Taliban took over.

The United Nations secretary-general says the world body has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 former members of the Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban takeover of the country on Aug. 15.

A year-old report by Washington's Afghanistan watchdog has now been declassified and shows that it warned back in early 2021 that the Afghan air force would collapse without critical U.S. aid and training.

Ashraf Ghani's sudden and secret departure left the city rudderless as U.S. and NATO forces were in the final stages of their chaotic withdrawal.

Afghanistan's former president says he had just minutes to decide to flee in the hours before the Taliban took control of the capital in August.

For Afghanistan, 2021 was punctuated by the chaos of a U.S. withdrawal and an uncertain next chapter.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Hamdullah Mohib, national security adviser under former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, that aired Sunday, December 19, 2021, on "Face the Nation."

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The Taliban didn't take the Afghan capital — they were invited, says the man who issued the invitation. In an Associated Press interview, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered some of the first insights into the secret and sudden departure of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani — and how he came to invite the Taliban into the city “to protect the population so that the country, the city doesn’t fall into chaos and the unwanted elements who would probably loot the country, loot shops.” Defense minister Bismillah Khan even asked Karzai if he wanted to leave Kabul when Karzai contacted him to know what remnants of the government still remained. Karzai, who was the country's president for 13 years after the Taliban were first ousted in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, refused to leave.

A top Taliban leader says Afghanistan’s new rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women and have learned lessons from their previous time in power.

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan’s economic collapse “is happening before our eyes” and urged the international community to take action to stop the freefall before it leads to more deaths.

Afghanistan's pavilion has finally arrived at the first world's fair in the Middle East a week after Dubai's Expo opened without it.

Dubai has gambled billions to make the gleaming, built-from-scratch Expo village a triumphant tourist attraction and symbol of the United Arab Emirates itself.

It was clear that the Taliban was coming back into power in one form or another.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley are scheduled to appear before the House Armed Services Committee to review the war in Afghanistan.

Female Afghan health workers, teachers and rights defenders are urging the international community to resume financial aid to Afghanistan, saying non-payment has disproportionally impacted women.

The dispute between Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers and its former government over who should speak at the U.N.’s annual meeting of world leaders is over.

The Taliban's newly appointed envoy to the United Nations is urging quick world recognition of the Taliban government and Afghanistan's new rulers even as the World Health Organization raised the alarm warning of an impending humanitarian disaster in the war-wracked country.

The United Nations says the Taliban, Afghanistan’s new rulers since last month, have challenged the credentials of Afghanistan’s former U.N. ambassador and are asking to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting of world leaders that began Tuesday.

The friction between pragmatists and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified since the group formed a hard-line Cabinet last week that is more in line with their harsh rule in the 1990s than their recent promises of inclusiveness.

The fistfight between two factions inside the Taliban leadership took place inside the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, the BBC reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified Tuesday on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

A small flag shop, tucked away in the courtyard of a Kabul market, has documented Afghanistan’s turbulent history over the decades with its ever-changing merchandise.

Two hundred foreigners in Afghanistan, Americans among them, are set to depart on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a U.S. official said.

Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan on August 15, reportedly without even notifying some of his aides, fearing execution from the Taliban.

The former president apologized 'to the Afghan people' and denied taking millions of dollars in cash with him as he fled Afghanistan.

The United Nations development agency says Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of “universal poverty” which could become a reality in the middle of next year unless urgent efforts are made to bolster local communities and their economies.

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued a statement Wednesday apologizing to Afghans for fleeing Kabul on the day the Taliban entered the capital city, calling it "the most difficult decision" of his life.Why it matters: Ghani's decision to flee Kabul and seek asylum in the United Arab Emirates on Aug. 15 precipitated the collapse of the Afghan government. Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeIn a White House address the day afte

The interior ministry of the new Taliban government is seeking to end protests in Afghanistan after days of demonstrations that have brought heavy-handed assaults on protesters.

Officials say at least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days.

After twenty years, it hardly needs saying that America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were disastrous to U.S. interests and standing.

Ali Nazary, a spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, denies that the last holdout against the Taliban has fallen, calling such reports part of the "Taliban propaganda machine."

Leaders are in talks to form an Islamic government while fighters attack final pockets of resistance.

The White House refused to draw further attention to reports President Joe Biden and ousted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani were unprepared for Afghanistan's quick collapse and that Biden had encouraged his counterpart in Kabul, Afghanistan, to fix his "perception" problem by selling a military strategy with local political heavyweights.

Repeatedly in recent days, Republicans and their allies have used thinly sourced, false and misleading information to exaggerate the situation.

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Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers face tough economic and security challenges as they return to power in a country that is vastly different from the one they left 20 years ago.

Addressing the nation, President Joe Biden is defending the way the U.S. ended its 20-year “forever war” in Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden still faces daunting challenges born of the hasty end of the Afghanistan war.

After two decades, the United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a sad chapter in military history.

On the eve of the final U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, some Kabul residents seemed more anxious about economic collapse than with the Taliban imposing their harsh version of Islam.

Fawad Andarabi, a famous Afghan folk singer, was reportedly dragged from his village home and shot by the Taliban on Saturday, according to reports.

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is giving radical Islamic groups from Syria and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and West Africa reason to celebrate.

The international community will likely have to confront three issues as the Taliban's takeover reverberates across the globe, experts told CNBC.

Afghan vet Chris McClananthan is trying to get his interpreter out of Kabul after the city fell in to the Taliban's hands.

A firefight outside Kabul’s international airport has killed an Afghan soldier.

"We had received intelligence for over a year that the President would be killed in the event of a takeover," a former senior official to Ghani said.

The Kremlin sees the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan as a chance to increase its power in the region. But as Russia's own history shows, that carries risks.

President Joe Biden is pledging firmly to bring all Americans home from Afghanistan — and all Afghans who aided the war effort, too.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda will host 2,000 Afghan refugees at a five-star hotel on the shores of Lake Victoria once it agrees on details on their relocation with the United States. “Because of our good refugee policy, our president was approached by his counterpart Biden to host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan in Uganda for three months, which he accepted,” Anyakun told Zenger News. “We’ve heard on social media that Uganda is planning to take in over 2,000 Afghan refugees,” Gilbert Olanya, the Kilak South member of parliament, told Zenger News. This is not the first time the international community is requesting Uganda to host refugees. (Edited by Kipchumba Some and Amrita Das)The post Uganda To Host 2,000 Afghan Refugees In 5-Star Hotels appeared first on Zenger News.

Ghani insisted the Afghan forces would fight,” Biden said, “but obviously he was wrong.”These Kabul-based military officers point the finger of blame in the other direction. He explained why he thinks the blame lies with President Biden, not the Afghan president or the Afghan army. The Afghan army relied on a network of planes and helicopters to deliver food, fuel, and ammunition to outlying outposts. Biden had “said in July that the Afghan military had the capability to fight the Taliban,” he said Sunday. Given the Taliban’s active hunt for Afghan National Army officers and their documented history of public executions for even minor offenses, Zenger is withholding the military officers’ names.

Afghanistan’s president, driven out by the Taliban, is the latest leader on the run to turn up in the United Arab Emirates.

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani denied rumors he avoided a peaceful transition with the Taliban.

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani denied rumors he avoided a peaceful transition with the Taliban.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief has called the fall of Afghanistan’s capital and the resurgence of the Taliban “a catastrophe” and “nightmare” that laid bare a failure of intelligence and trans-Atlantic cooperation.

The warnings were clear: The Afghan government would likely fall once U.S. troops pulled out.

President Joe Biden and his national security team say the Trump administration tied their hands when it came to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"I left with one shirt, one pants, one vest and one sandals," Ghani said, denying reports that he allegedly left with a large sum of money.

The UAE says it has welcomed the president and his family on humanitarian grounds.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reportedly fled Kabul with $169 million in cash

The whereabouts of former president Ashraf Ghani were unknown for days after he fled Kabul, leaving his nation in the hands of the Taliban.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday that he had left the country to avoid further bloodshed.

Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president who fled his country as the Taliban gained the upper hand in the civil war, has surfaced in the United Arab Emirates.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled his country as its capital Kabul was being overtaken by Taliban fighters, is now in the United Arab Emirates.

The United Arab Emirates' foreign ministry confirmed in a statement Wednesday that the UAE has welcomed former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on "humanitarian grounds."Why it matters: Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban closed in on Kabul, precipitating the collapse of the Afghan government. His whereabouts had previously been unknown.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free."Today I faced a tough choice — to stand

Protesters in Jalalabad who tried to raise the Afghan national flag in place of the Taliban's were dispersed by weapon-wielding Taliban fighters.

As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans looked for ways to escape what they see as a return of a ruthless fundamentalist rule.

The United Nations says it’s sending about a third of its 300 international staff in Afghanistan to Kazakhstan, to work remotely on a temporary basis in light of “the volatile situation in the country.”.

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage for civilians trying to leave Afghanistan.

Amrullah Saleh, the former vice president of Afghanistan, declared Tuesday that he is the "legitimate caretaker president" as he is in the process of bringing together military leaders to oppose the Taliban.

The Taliban's spectacular takeover of Afghanistan has buoyed the spirits of their Islamic brothers-in-arms throughout the world.

"I am not safe," a former high-ranking Afghan official texts from a hidden location, saying the Taliban have sent killers after them.

Embassy sources said that unusual activity was detected on the Twitter account of the Afghan Embassy in India. On Aug. 15, Ghani left the country to avoid “bloodshed” as Kabul fell to the Taliban and terrorists entered the Afghanistan presidential palace. In his first comments after he left Afghanistan, Ghani, in a Facebook post, said that from now on, the Taliban would be responsible for the “honor, wealth, and preservation” of Afghanistan’s people. They have taken control of the presidential palace after the country’s president Ashraf Ghani fled to Tajikistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Aug. 15 said that the Taliban had been asked to enter the capital city of Kabul.

Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban as a teenager because she advocated for educating girls.

The Taliban have vowed to respect women’s rights, forgive those who fought them and ensure Afghanistan does not become a haven for terrorists.

The situation in Afghanistan unraveled with quicksilver speed over the first three days of Biden’s long-planned vacation, which he curtailed Monday to return to the White House to address the nation.

The city of Kabul, once bustling, is now quiet as Taliban fighters patrol the streets and insist people are "happy."

The city of Kabul, once bustling, is now quiet as Taliban fighters patrol the streets and insist people are "happy."

The U.S. war in Afghanistan has been the longest in American history, lasting 20 years.

The Russian embassy in Kabul has alleged that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul with four cars and a helicopter stuffed with cash.

A young Afghan woman stands between two worlds at Kabul's airport, engulfed in panic as thousands of Afghans scramble desperate to get out following the Taliban takeover of the country.

The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. is set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war.

Chaos at the main airport in the Afghan capital has killed at least seven people.

America’s top general says the United States could now face a rise in terrorist threats from a Taliban-run Afghanistan.

The Taliban have captured a large, heavily defended city in northern Afghanistan in a major setback for the government.

The last-minute decision to send 3,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to help partially evacuate the U.S. Embassy is calling into question whether President Joe Biden can meet his deadline for fully withdrawing by the end of the month.

The Taliban have captured two major Afghan cities, the country’s second- and third-largest after Kabul, and a strategic provincial capital.