By Louis Seagray Hardened Taliban, al-Qaida killers released- and then armed. Kabul, Afghanistan — Some of the Taliban’s most hardened fighters and senior al-Qaida operatives…
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By Jason Ditz President Ashraf Ghani has fled Afghanistan, and his government has effectively collapsed. This marks the end of decades of US-backed governments during the…
by TYLER DURDEN Kabul’s streets are clogged with panicked civilians fleeing the Taliban onslaught of the Afghan capital, American chinook helicopters are hovering above the…
By Venus Upadhayaya The Taliban has entered the presidential palace in the capital city Kabul and is now in control of the entire country, according to a highly placed source.…
By Julian Conradson Well that was quick. When most Americans were falling asleep last night, there were rumblings that the Taliban could overtake Afghanistan’s capital city of…
By Tyler Durden Update (1310ET): The situation in Kabul (well all of Afghanistan) has gone from bad to worst case scenario as a Taliban official says…
by TYLER DURDEN More Afghan provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban as the insurgent group is advancing quickly in the country after the United States started to…
by TYLER DURDEN update(5:40eastern): The State Department has ordered the US embassy in Kabul to begin shredding all sensitive and classified materials as the Taliban heads for the capital…