Air India's return flight from Kabul to Delhi departed on Sunday evening with 129 passengers as Taliban forces entered the national capital of Afghanistan and waited for "peaceful tra...

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has left Afghanistan with his core team as Taliban take control of the country. A senior Afghan Interior Ministry official said Ghani left the capital Kabul for Taji...

India has put in place contingency plans to evacuate hundreds of its officials and citizens from Kabul that has been gripped by fear and panic following reports of Taliban fighters entering the outski...

In a nationwide offensive that has taken just over a week, the Taliban has defeated, co-opted or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swaths of the country, even though they had some air supp...

The Taliban seized a province just south of Afghanistan's capital and launched a multi-pronged assault early Saturday on Mazar-e-Sharif, a major city in the north defended by powerful former warlo...

A government official confirmed that Kandahar, the economic hub of the south, was under Taliban control as international forces complete their withdrawal after 20 years of war. The fighting has also ...

Taliban fighters captured the strategic Afghan city of Ghazni on Thursday, taking them to within 150km (90 miles) of Kabul following days of fierce clashes as the Islamist group ruled out sharing powe...

The Taliban captured a strategic provincial capital near Kabul and broke through defensive lines in Afghanistan's third-largest city on Thursday, further squeezing the country's embattled gove...

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It was the last month of 2016. In Kabul, the weather was cold in the evening. I was having tea with some colleagues — most of them were from Europe — near Wazir Akbar Khan Chaurahi. I was ...