Afghanistan Taliban News

'In touch with all concerned', says MEA on reports of kidnapping of Afghanistan-origin Indian in Kabul

According to reports, Bansri Lal Arendeh was kidnapped at gunpoint on Tuesday in the Afghan capital city.

Last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community leaves after Taliban takeover

Zebulon Simentov, who lived in a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul and called Afghanistan home, joined the exodus of tens of thousands of Afghans who fled since the Taliban took over the country

US thanks several nations including India for their 'generous offers' to help during Afghanistan evacuation

The US State Department said that America is grateful to the global network of countries that have provided "critical assistance for our evacuation efforts"

At least four evacuee flights stuck at airport for days as Taliban prevent take off

While the reason is yet to be ascertained, the Republican have called it a hostage situation and airport officials have said many of the evacuees do not have the right documents

Taliban militia step up assault on Panjshir, spokesman claims Rokha district overrun

Some domestic passenger flights to and from Kabul resumed on Sunday, mostly to facilitate transport of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged country

Afghan refugee crisis goes global: Hapless evacuees hope for a place as countries scramble for solutions

The current crisis comes on top of the 2.2 million Afghan refugees already in neighbouring countries and 3.5 million people forced to flee their homes within Afghanistan's borders.

US airstrike hits vehicle carrying multiple Islamic State suicide bombers targeting Kabul airport, says Taliban

A military official said the strike on Sunday caused “significant secondary explosions” indicating the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material in the vehicle

Child killed in rocket strike near Kabul airport amid US warnings of terror attack in Afghanistan

A security official from the recently deposed government told AFP it was a rocket that 'initial information shows hit a house'

Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Haqqanis are heads of the same monster in Pakistan’s zoo of terror

Jihadi groups across the world are cut from the same ideological cloth. But in Afghanistan, the deep bonds go beyond ideology

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