Taliban Captures Afghanistan

Most members of Afghanistan’s 33-member caretaker government announced by the Taliban, including the prime minister and his two deputies, have been on the UN Security Council’s sanctions list, while the US regards interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani as an Al Qaeda-linked global terrorist who is on FBI’s most-wanted list

Taliban in Afghanistan | Why Taliban takeover of Afghanistan matters to the world

Over the past decades, the fate of Afghanistan has been inevitably intertwined with the Taliban, which has regained control 20 years after it was chased out of its strongholds by 9/11-hit America. But, is a Taliban regime only a matter of concern for the Afghans? Let’s understand why Taliban takeover of Afghanistan matters to the world, and India.

All military and civilian flights halted at Kabul airport: Pentagon

"US military forces are on the scene working alongside Turkish and other international troops to clear the area of people. We do not know how long this will take," Kirby said.

Kabul planes mobbed as Afghans make a desperate dash to exit

Dramatic footage posted on social media shows hundreds of men running alongside a US Air Force plane as it rolls down the runway, with some clinging to the side of it. In other videos, civilians frantically clamber up an already overcrowded and buckling set of airstairs.