Special envoys of China, Russia and Pakistan have met top officials of the Taliban’s interim government as well as Afghan leaders Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul and discussed the fo...

As Afghans who failed in the desperate stampede to flee the country are forced to come to terms with their lot, their new rulers face an even more excruciating challenge. But in reconciling their aust...

The end of the US’s longest war was unceremonious — trash blowing across the single airstrip of Kabul’s international airport, Afghans lingering outside the gates, still hoping in va...

It was exactly what President Biden feared most. His decision to end America’s longest war was driven, he had said repeatedly, by his determination not to sacrifice even one more member of the ...

Two explosions struck within a dense crowd outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, just hours after western governments had warned of a security threat there. At least 12...

The Taliban has taken away security from former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, an Afghan official who leads the High Council for National Reconciliation, reported a foreign agenc...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the "overwhelming majority" of people eligible for evacuation from Kabul airport have now left Afghanistan. Johnson also reiterate...

As lethal mayhem persisted outside Kabul airport, with thousands of terrified Afghans trying to flee, the Taliban have reached out to a former Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, and to Russia in an attem...

Whether Abdullah Abdullah will play any part in the new government is unknown. He is a Tajik but has a Pashtun stepfather. Most of the Talibans are Pashtuns.  It is unclear how quickly any talks...

As it became clear that the Taliban had entered Kabul’s gates, thousands of Afghans who had sought refuge there after fleeing the insurgents’ brutal military offensive watched with growing...