The Afghanistan capital city of Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday, just over one week after U.S. troops withdrew, underscoring one of the worst American foreign policy debacles since the Vietnam war ...

Belmont, CA - When the Taliban re-took control of Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15, 2021, it meant an immediate end to the university education of one Afghan woman who now calls the Bay Area home. One ...

Ismail -- whose last name is being withheld to protect his safety -- is one of scores of Afghans who worked alongside the United States during its two-decade military campaign in Afghanistan and are ...

Public anniversaries mark the meaning of the past in the political present. In Washington, one year after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the failure of the United States and its allies is emotive ...

As the United States bombed Afghanistan's meager air defense and communications network for the third straight night, there were indications the air war could move to other nations while the action in ...

While I was on assignment in war zones across Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, I didn’t want to admit it — but the country’s fate felt inevitable. In Bamyan, the Taliban were entering villages and ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with retired Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of CENTCOM, about the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to the Taliban one year later. One year ago, last August, as ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After abandoning a key northern city, Taliban forces retreated south Saturday toward the capital, Kabul, where the opposition threatened to launch a major attack within days.

EDITORIAL -- Music blaring from radios. Hundreds of residents cheering and chanting "Long Live America". Men shaving their Taliban-ordered beards. Such was the celebration as Kabul was freed and ...

Stories UNHCR distributes winter supplies as first snow falls in Kabul As temperatures drop across Afghanistan, UNHCR and its partners have started delivering winter supplies to the most desperate ...