Taliban claims attack on Kabul
Violence rises across the country as insurgents take advantage of the American withdrawal.
Violence rises across the country as insurgents take advantage of the American withdrawal.
Afghanistan is not known as ‘The Graveyard of Empires’ without reason – just ask the Greeks, Mongols, British, Russians and US
The architect of counter-insurgency warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq highlighted the dangers of an Islamist takeover.
Afghan government forces struggle against Taliban assaults on several cities on Sunday.
If the US can coldly abandon an ally of two decades to its fate, then American security assurances begin to trade at a discount.
A Taliban delegation has assured Beijing the group will not allow Afghanistan to be used as a base for plotting against another country.
The least the US can do is offer air support, intel and ensure proper logistics; if not, the world will bear witness to a disaster.
About a dozen strikes are aimed at slowing a Taliban surge, aiding a beleaguered Afghan military.
After the Afghan army’s collapse, the police are all that remain to thwart the Islamists’ return to Kandahar, the city that spawned them.
The US military is preparing to house as many as 35,000 Afghan interpreters and family members at two Middle East bases.
The Defence Minister has the leadership skills to save the people who helped us – and our international reputation.
As foreign forces move out of Afghanistan and the Taliban surges through the country, the mood is both sombre and chaotic.
National pride and deaths of our Diggers means we cannot abandon the ‘Afghan angels’ who assisted in the bloody campaign
The US’s pullout – the exact timing of which had been kept secret for security reasons, despite weeks of preparations alongside the Afghan military – still came as a shock to many Afghan soldiers, leaving many rattled.
More than 10000 Afghan troops flee Taliban advances as, demoralised and poorly equipped, hundreds more lay down arms.
The American urge is to ‘win’ any contest, but a military win in Afghanistan was never going to be possible. Now we will learn the cost of leaving. And there will be one.
Allowing the country to return to its medieval past would betray all that generations of allied forces fought and died for.
Washington announces it will finish withdrawing its troops from the country by the end of August.
The move signals that the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan is imminent.
Afghanistan is in turmoil as US troops plan to pull out within days.
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