Afghanistan News Today

Afghanistan Updates: Taliban again postpones govt formation; move coincides with Pak intel chief's surprise visit

A number of women rights activists and reporters, who were protesting in Kabul for the second straight day, said that Taliban fighters lobbed tear gas shells on their procession to stop them from marching toward the Afghan Presidential Palace, local news channel Tolo News reported.

Taliban to finalise new Afghan govt soon, 80% Doha team likely to be in council

The executives of this Council will lead the government and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is likely to head the political office, the Taliban sources said, adding that 80 per cent of this government will be from the Doha Taliban team.

Joe Biden skirts broken promise on Afghan exit as Taliban celebrates win

For the record, Biden vowed that he would get 100 percent of Americans out before withdrawing forces. And his suggestions Tuesday that many of the remaining Americans are dual nationals who may be undecided about leaving do not reflect the full reality

Afghanistan crisis: Joe Biden plays the long game as he justifies the end of the ‘forever war’

He cited the 120,000 Americans and Afghan allies evacuated in the two weeks since the Taliban seized power in Kabul, boasting that “no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history.”

All in or all out? Joe Biden saw no middle ground in America's forever war

But that reductionist formula has prompted a profound debate over whether the mayhem in Kabul, the capital, was in fact inevitable or the result of a failure to consider other options that might have ended in a different outcome

Toll hits 170 after IS blasts in Kabul, Biden vows revenge as clock ticks on evacuations

Among the dead were 13 American service members, including 10 in the US Marines. At least 18 more US troops were injured in the attack

Member of Afghanistan national football team among those who fell from US Air Force plane

At least seven people, including three Afghan nationals who clung to a US Air Force plane to escape Taliban rule, died on Monday in a melee at the Kabul airport, as hundreds of people scrambled to board flights in a desperate bid to get out of Afghanistan

At UNSC, Jaishankar says LeT, JeM continue to operate with impunity, takes veiled dig at Pakistan

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the events unfolding in Afghanistan have enhanced global concerns about their implications for both regional and international security

Afghans, including ex-military translators, appeal to US for faster evacuation under Taliban rule

President Joe Biden and his top officials said the US was working to speed up the evacuation but made no promises how long it would last or how many desperate people it would fly to safety

Despite assurances of dignity from Taliban, Afghan women have everything to lose

The absence of women in those crazy scenes at the airport this week, for me, portended a continuation of their long story of silent bravery and resilience