Taliban

Abdul Ghani Baradar gets glowing write-up in magazine’s list of ‘extraordinary leaders’

Qatar Airways plane with Americans on board takes off after Taliban agreement

Cricket included in ban, as interim government containing no women starts work

Many Afghans face starvation with country isolated and economy unravelling, aid agencies warn

As evacuations from Kabul wind down, attention turns to fate of those who were part of sudden exodus

Thousands of top-secret files and payroll lists acquired amid chaos of sudden collapse of Afghan government

There had been fears the group would strike Taliban fighters, US troops and Afghans and foreigners

Emergence of Isis-K a taste of things to come in wake of calamitous withdrawal of allied forces

Hazara community, which makes up 15% of Afghanistan’s 38m population, is particularly at risk despite Taliban reassurances

Closed banks, rising prices and fuel shortages become new features of life in Afghanistan’s capital

Evacuations will not be done before deadline for exit of Western forces, Germany warns

Thousands have been fleeing Afghanistan daily in recent months ahead of the Taliban takeover

Leaders to lobby US president to extend deadline for complete withdrawal of troops

US says it ‘understands view’ of militant group that all its troops must leave by end of August

US president says he will support British calls for sanctions if Taliban commit abuses

Taliban rule could destabilise Central Asia and accelerate regional rise of China

Protesters carry national flags as Taliban gunfire at Kabul airport adds to chaos there

US tactical decision to abandon Bagram base without notice would reverberate long after

Women’s rights will be protected ‘within framework of Islam’, says spokesman

US Politics: Rarely have so many lives and so much cash been spent on so little

Comments suggest Beijing is ready to give cautious support to Taliban-led government in Kabul

Fundamentalists in neighbouring Central Asian countries likely to be boosted by success

US and UK ‘risk Saigon moment’ as troops sent to evacuate Afghan embassies

Militant group’s sweeping gains stoke fears of humanitarian and international migrant crisis

Militant group seizes control of country’s third biggest city and claims to have captured Kandahar

US and UK warn citizens to leave as Islamist militants capture at least two provincial capitals

Resurgent militant group delivers twin blows to Western-backed Kabul administration

Officials confirm all but one district of Lashkar Gah under hardline Islamists’ control

Herat residents fear Taliban in homes and workplaces as it masses outside city

President says that US military mission will end on August 31st as Taliban surges

Russia reassures ex-Soviet ally as US exit from Afghanistan stokes fears for regional stability

US Politics: Struggle with a state like China offers the possibility of reversing the collapse of national cohesion after 9/11

Taliban’s 85,000 fighters poised to battle way back to power after US and Nato forces leave

US secretary of state tells Afghan president that partnership is ‘changing but enduring’

At least 24 killed by suicide bomber in separate attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday

Afghanistan: Released Taliban must provide ‘written guarantee to not return to battlefield’

Gunmen open fire at Kabul ceremony attended by political leader Abdullah Abdullah

Global Terrorism Index also warns of worrying surge in attacks from far right groups

Taliban claims responsibilty along with near-daily attacks since collapsed US peace talks

Suicide bomber kills 26 in attack at rally for Afghan president claimed by Taliban