Full coverage of the Afghanistan crisis after U.S. withdrawal
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President Biden will sign an executive order calling for frozen Afghan funds to be split between 9/11 victims and humanitarian relief in Afghanistan.
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All but five of the 38 hospitals that treated COVID-19 in Afghanistan have been forced to close recently for lack of doctors, medicines and even heat.
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The United Nations secretary-general says the world body has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 former members of the Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban takeover of the country on Aug. 15
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Afghanistan’s bitter winter cold has international aid organizations scrambling to try to help millions of people who have neither food nor fuel.
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The $308 million would flow through independent humanitarian groups, the White House said while also pledging to send 1 million COVID vaccine doses.
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Iran, which is home to 3 million Afghans, with thousands more arriving daily, is sending more and more refugees back — into the hands of the Taliban.
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The survivors of an errant drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 members of their family are frustrated no U.S. troops will face disciplinary action.
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No U.S. troops involved in the August drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children will face disciplinary action, U.S. defense officials said Monday.
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Human Rights Watch says the Taliban has killed or ‘disappeared’ more than 100 former Afghan police and intelligence officers since taking power.
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Members of an Afghan girls’ soccer team arrive in Britain after receiving help from a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and Kim Kardashian West.
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Emal Salarzai helped teach elite Afghan troops. Now his parents are on the run from the Taliban, and he can’t find any way to aid them in escaping.
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The gates of Kabul’s historic Ariana Cinema are shut and the movie posters have been stripped from its marquee under Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers.
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Advocates want to expand a fast pass for legal entry known as humanitarian parole to certain Afghans who remain in danger.
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Two months after the Taliban takeover of their country, Afghan women and girls inhabit a world transformed.
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A Pentagon review concludes that the U.S. drone strike that killed Afghan civilians, including children, was not a result of misconduct or negligence.
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Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August, 67,000 Afghan allies have been evacuated to the U.S. Only 10,000 of them have been resettled.
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The Taliban has issued edicts that are likely to smother what few independent media outlets survived the collapse of the U.S.-backed government.
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The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, is stepping down following the chaotic American withdrawal from the country.
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The Islamic State group says its members are responsible for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan.
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The State Department is trying to relocate some of the family members to the United States. Ten people, including seven children, were killed in a Aug. 29 drone strike the U.S. called a ‘tragic mistake.’
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U.S. officials called the errant drone strike that killed 10 in Afghanistan a ‘tragic mistake.’ The family is still waiting for it to be rectified.
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A small bird rescued from Kabul by a French diplomat is at the center of a rare feel-good tale out of the chaotic evacuations from Afghanistan.
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The Taliban says Washington has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster.
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Officials from both sides have said issues include reining in extremist groups and the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country.
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A suicide bomber strikes a mosque in Kunduz during Friday prayers, killing 46. Islamic State claims responsibility and says the bomber was a Uyghur.
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Amnesty International says 13 ethnic Hazaras, most of them soldiers in the Afghan army who had surrendered to the Taliban, were killed Aug. 30.
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They were hoping to win Fulbright scholarships. Then the Taliban took over, and the U.S. went silent
Afghans short-listed for the prestigious scholarship say they’ve been forgotten since the Taliban took power. Deadlines loom to apply to U.S. schools.
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A Taliban spokesman says a bomb exploded in the entrance of a mosque in the Afghanistan capital, resulting in at least five deaths.
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The Taliban brought the bodies of 4 alleged kidnappers to Herat’s main square, then suspended 1 from a crane, a gesture echoing their hard-line past.
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Restless Kabul residents ponder what remains and what changes in the Afghan capital after more than a month of Taliban rule.
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The Taliban has challenged the credentials of Afghanistan’s former U.N. ambassador.
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The nation’s top counter-terrorism officials said they were concerned about terror threats emerging from Afghanistan following chaotic U.S. pullout.
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It’s an image that has come to symbolize America’s chaotic end to 20 years of war in Afghanistan: Afghan men scramble to board a C-17 as it leaves Kabul.
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Female employees in Kabul city government run by the Taliban have been told to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by men.
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Some still in Afghanistan fear the Taliban will imprison or even kill them because they are Americans or had helped Americans.
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Taliban sets up a ministry for the ‘propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice’ in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry.
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The Pentagon has retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians last month in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan’s rural areas bore the brunt of the last 20 years of war. The Taliban’s takeover has brought calm, but a humanitarian crisis is brewing.
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Before the special visa, there was the diversity visa lottery for Afghans seeking to come to the U.S., but it’s backed up too.
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The question of how the world will help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban rulers is growing more urgent by the day.
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The friction between pragmatists and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified since the formation of a hard-line Cabinet last week.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken testifies to a Senate committee about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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The United Nations hosted a high-level donors conference to drum up emergency funds for Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
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Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory.
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Evacuation flights of Afghans from two overseas bases to the U.S. are halted due to a measles outbreak among evacuees who have already arrived.
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In its almost two-decade fight with the U.S., the Taliban worked at every turn to undermine the former Afghan government, deriding its leaders as corrupt stooges whose forces could never protect Afghans from the group’s ferocious attacks.
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Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities allowed an estimated 200 Westerners, including Americans, to fly out from Kabul.
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Since taking power, Taliban officials have sprouted in all major Afghan ministries, embedding themselves in the bureaucracy they have inherited.
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The Taliban uses force again to disperse protesters, including demonstrators for women’s rights, who are resisting the group’s rule of Afghanistan.
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New interim Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund led the government when the Taliban ruled from 1996-2001. All the new officials appear to be Taliban.
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In Afghanistan, the Biden administration must figure out how to deal diplomatically and politically with what will be a Taliban-led government.
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Kenny Necochea Jr., 21, was killed by suicide bomber in Kandahar in 2010. Almost 11 years later, the pain is still raw.
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The Taliban says it has control of Panjshir, a province north of Kabul where resisters and remnants of the former government have made their base.
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A U.S. official says the United States plans to send Afghan evacuees who require more screening to a site in Kosovo
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Overcoming the scars of decades of war by competing in the Tokyo Paralympics, Afghanistan’s athletes know their lives will never be the same.
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European Union officials set out a list of conditions that will determine the bloc’s level of engagement with the Taliban now that it is in power in Afghanistan.
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U.S. troops exiting Afghanistan left behind a vast amount of military gear and equipment that have made the Taliban better armed than ever.
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The U.S. public ignored the war and our cultural institutions have often ignored the art. But it’s not too late for museums to elevate the ideas of Afghan artists
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President Biden says the counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan will continue. Experts say it’s going to be much harder.
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Reporting from Afghanistan under the Taliban is ‘just weird. Surreal, really.’
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The countries lying closest to Afghanistan have competing agendas in the new Taliban era.
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America’s major religious faiths and denominations, often divided on other big issues, prepare to welcome an influx of refugees from Afghanistan.
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Parents, friends and fellow Marines remember the four young people from California killed in the Kabul airport bombing.
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Crew members on the last U.S. flights out of Afghanistan say the sky was alight with fireworks and the Kabul airfield strewn with destroyed equipment.
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Pentagon officials acknowledge sorrow over Afghanistan and vow to continue the rescue of Americans and Afghan allies left behind in the country.
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The Taliban and other Afghan leaders have reached a ‘consensus’ on a government to be led by the group’s spiritual leader, an official said.
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Pope Francis criticized the West’s intervention in Afghanistan as an outsider’s attempt to impose democracy.
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U.S. troops fought in Afghanistan longer than in any other war. Here’s a look at major events over the last two decades.
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As the Taliban takes unfettered control of Afghanistan, major challenges await, including at the Kabul airport, the scene of the West’s last stand.
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President Biden tries to turn the page on a foreign policy crisis with a speech about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
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Afghan girls who learned guitar from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello are in hiding after their school was destroyed. He is seeking help.
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Taliban fighters enter a hangar at the Kabul airport and examine Chinook helicopters left behind after the U.S. left Afghanistan.
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Qatar’s ties with both Washington and the Taliban have put the tiny Arab Gulf state in prime position to help shape what’s next for Afghanistan.
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A family’s escape from Kabul is stymied at every turn. The matriarch is a green card holder who lives in Tarzana. Their L.A. family is trying to get them out.
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The Biden administration designated the Department of Homeland Security to oversee entry of vulnerable Afghans into the U.S.
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The final pullout from Afghanistan marks the end of a long, bitter and costly conflict
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An Afghan family says 10 people were killed in a drone strike in Kabul. It’s not yet clear if it was related to an acknowledged U.S. strike Sunday.
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Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul’s international airport struck a nearby neighborhood on the eve of the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw.
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Joe Biden is meeting with slain troops’ families. He had hoped to be the first president in two decades to avoid losing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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With the U.S. reducing troop levels at the airport amid the risk of ISIS-K attacks and other security concerns, U.S. troops have been forced to work with the Taliban, their onetime adversaries.
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People fleeing the violence engulfing Afghanistan have arrived in Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
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Decades of war and poverty have driven Afghan farmers to grow poppy to earn steady income. The Taliban’s return to power does little to change that.
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Five Californians were among the U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport blast last week in Afghanistan.
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President Biden vowed to keep up airstrikes against an extremist group blamed for a deadly bombing and warned another attack by the group is ‘highly likely.’
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Heartbroken family members begin sharing the names of those killed in Afghanistan through interviews and social media.
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Taliban forces have sealed off Kabul’s airport to most Afghans as NATO nations wind down their evacuation flights out of Afghanistan.
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The Pentagon says two Islamic State of group members were killed in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, not one as initially reported.
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The airstrike was launched from beyond Afghanistan and targeted an ISIS-K member believed to be involved with planning attacks, a source said.
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Two Marines from Riverside County are among those killed in a suicide bombing attack at Kabul airport, officials have confirmed.
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As the death toll from Thursday’s bombing in Kabul climbs past 180, Afghan families gather for funerals, and many resolve anew to leave.
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Afghanistan attack: Pentagon officials say there was one explosion near the Kabul airport, not two as it had reported Thursday.
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Evacuation flights from Afghanistan have resumed with new urgency a day after a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport killed more than 180 people.
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Afghanistan’s best and brightest are leaving the country in droves, taking with them skills and knowledge that the Taliban wants put to its service.
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Doctors, judges, athletes, activists: Afghan women trapped and considered at-risk under Taliban rule
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, women who fear being targeted for their work see dwindling hope of escape.
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The terrorist group Islamic State in Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, is thought to be responsible for Thursday’s deadly bombing near the airport. Here’s what we know about it.
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A bombing killed 13 U.S. service personnel and more than 169 Afghans on Thursday outside the airport in Kabul.
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Biden vows to ‘hunt’ down Islamic State terrorists after suicide bombings in Kabul killed 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans.
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You can help Afghan refugees by donating money to or volunteering with organizations in California.
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Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) flew unannounced into Kabul airport in the midst of the chaotic evacuation Tuesday.
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Burns and Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s top political leader, secretly met in Kabul on Monday as the evacuations continued.
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As international airlifts from Afghanistan accelerate, the airport backdrop is rife with desperation. Only the lucky are able to flee.
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The Biden administration has tapped U.S. air carriers to help in the evacuation of Afghanistan. Here’s how that works.
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Biden aims to stick to Afghanistan withdrawal deadline as evacuations continue, but asks Pentagon for contingency plans. Taliban warns against extension.
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In Kabul’s bazaars, sales of the head-to-toe covering temporarily increased after Taliban takeover. But new rulers’ decrees aren’t entirely clear.
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Taliban spokesman says there will be “consequences” if the Biden administration keeps U.S. troops in Afghanistan to continue evacuations beyond Aug. 31.
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With the Taliban in control, Washington seeks a new pressure point: dollars.
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As the Taliban solidifies control of Afghanistan, Californians with friends and family in the country are scrambling to help.
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The Taliban’s spectacular takeover of Afghanistan has buoyed the spirits of their Islamic brothers-in-arms throughout the world.
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President Biden addressed the American people about the messy U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. He stood by his decision and said there was no good time to leave.
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Deadly chaos as thousands of Afghans swarm Kabul’s airport to try to flee following Taliban takeover, while others hunker down in homes.
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Taliban fighters entered Kabul and sought the unconditional surrender of the central government as Afghans and foreigners alike raced for the exit.
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In Kabul, hunkering down and fearing the worst as the Afghan capital changes hands.
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The Taliban has regained power after nearly 20 years. Here’s what that can mean for average Afghanis.
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Another 1,000 U.S. troops are being sent to Afghanistan to help evacuate U.S. personnel after the Taliban overran most of the country
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In possession of military bases and weapons, the Taliban has wound up as the beneficiary of the $83 billion lavished on Afghan security forces.
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The Taliban swept into Kabul and seized power on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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Retreat of U.S. troops and advance of the Taliban leave veterans of the Afghanistan war conflicted
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A young Afghan woman who was about to graduate from college tells of anxiety, fear and dashed hopes amid the Taliban takeover of her country.
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Americans support the U.S. withdrawal, polls have shown, but the U.S. exit is proving ugly.
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The U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan’s military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban.
