When Taliban controlled the country from 1996 to 2001, it barred women from taking most jobs or receiving educations and made them prisoners in their own homes...
Hamid Karzai to form a Coordinating Council with Abdullah Abdullah and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hesb-i-Islami party, to manage a peaceful transfer of power...
A routine Air India flight had to hover in the skies for over an hour early Sunday afternoon before managing to land in the midst of the Taliban siege of the capital ...