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The leader of the resistance movement in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley is calling for a "national uprising" against the Taliban, who claimed to have taken complete control of the province where opposition forces had been holding out.
The leader of Afghanistan’s resistance front against the Taliban said on September 5 that he welcomed proposals by religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting in the Panjshir Valley, the last holdout against Taliban control in Afghanistan.
The Taliban's takeover has thrown Afghanistan's economy into chaos. Since the militant group's capture of Kabul on August 15, many Afghans are grappling with soaring food prices and cash shortages.
Former Afghan legislator Shukria Barakzai describes the harrowing experience of how she escaped from Kabul after the capital fell to the Taliban.
About three dozen women in the western Afghan city of Herat have protested to demand the new Taliban leadership preserves the rights and advances women have made in the country since the militants were ousted two decades ago.
A women’s rights activist expects the Taliban to unleash a “wave of repression” now that the last U.S. troops have left Afghanistan.
The family of influential Afghan cleric Maulvi Mohammad Sardar Zadran says he has been arrested by the Taliban.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for firing six rockets at Kabul's airport on August 30.
The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), which claimed responsibility for the deadly August 26 attacks outside Kabul airport, is far more brutal than the Taliban, according to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi Service Director Qadir Habib.
The Taliban says none of its fighters guarding the perimeter of Kabul’s airport were killed in the explosions on August 26 that claimed more than 100 lives, including 13 U.S. troops, and deflected blame for the attack on the United States.
The U.S. military believes there are still “credible threats” against a major airlift operation at Kabul airport a day after a suicide attack on a crowd trying to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan killed more than 100 people, including 13 U.S. troops.
Russia will use four military transport aircraft to evacuate more than 500 citizens from Afghanistan, Russian news agencies reported on August 25, as the Taliban said an August 31 deadline for all foreign evacuations to be completed will not be extended.
Thousands of people seeking to leave Afghanistan continue to surge on the Kabul airport as the United States and its allies race to meet an August 31 deadline to finish the evacuations that President Joe Biden said are becoming more risky each day for U.S. troops still on the ground.
Residents of Panjshir, the last anti-Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, have shown an outpouring of support for rising up against the hard-line Islamist group. However, they are also worried about the possible implications of fighting that could see the region being left in a prolonged siege.
President Joe Biden said in his first interview since the Taliban seized Kabul that “chaos” was inevitable once the United States decided to leave Afghanistan after two decades of war.
Seven people have been reported killed as thousands of Afghans flooded the runways and terminals of the Kabul airport amid chaos, attempting to leave after Taliban militants seized control of the country ahead of the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces after a presence of nearly two decades.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has left country as the Taliban entered the outskirts of the capital, the only major city left in government hands.
Fear and panic is gripping residents of the Afghan capital as Taliban militants march toward the city following a blistering offensive in which they have captured large swaths of the country.
Taliban fighters have reportedly taken control of Mazar-e Sharif, a major northern Afghan city that is one of the last in the country still under government control.
Taliban fighters drag the body of a dead Afghan soldier through dusty city streets, while elsewhere a shopkeeper calmly stacks his shelves and ponders how prices have risen. Scraps of video from areas captured by the Taliban give a glimpse of life there.
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