The situation in Afghanistan is “difficult and alarming,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said while ruling out the involvement of Russian f0rces in the conflict. Russia, he said, is keeping a “close eye” on the situation

US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed the August 31 deadline for ending the troop presence in Afghanistan despite immense pressure from his NATO allies who were seeking an extension to complete the evacuation of their nationals and thousands of Afghans at risk of facing retribution from the Taliban

At least one Afghan soldier died and three were injured when a firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen and  Western security forces and Afghan soldiers at Kabul airport on Monday, Germany's armed forces confirmed in a tweet

The anti-Taliban resistance forces led by former Afghan first vice President Amrullah Saleh, who has recently declared himself as the acting president, launched counter attacks on the Taliban, capturing four districts in two provinces near Panjshir, the only province which is still not under the control of the Taliban

Days after the United States blocked the Taliban from accessing the country’s sovereign reserves maintained with the US Federal Reserve, the global lender International Monetary Fund (IMF), has followed suit

Protests erupted in at least two of eastern Afghan cities days after the Taliban seized power in the country as people gathered in thousands, waving the tricolor flag - which is different than the Taliban’s flag - demanding respect for the national flag from the insurgent group who are bidding to rule the country and rename it the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

The Taliban, the Sunni Islamist fundamentalist group that seized power militarily  in Afghanistan last week, is struggling to access most of the Afghan central bank’s roughly $10 billion in assets, kept in US banks

The defining moment of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan will be the scenes of the hundreds of desperate Afghans, chasing American military planes on the airport’s runways in Kabul, with some people hanging on the planes’ wings desperately and dangerously

No flights can operate from Kabul airport now as the airspace has been closed, officials told NDTV

The Taliban, whose fighters encircled capital Kabul, has reportedly been seeking the unconditional surrender of the Afghan government even as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and National Security Adviser Hamidullah Mohib left the country this evening, multiple reports said

The Taliban on Friday detained Ismail Khan, a veteran warlord who recently became the face of Herat resistance against the Taliban

Western embassies and aid agencies are scrambling to evacuate their civilian staff from embassies from Afghanistan, with the United States and the United Kingdom rushing additional troops to the country after the Taliban captured Kandahar, Helmand, Herat, and Ghazni, raising fears of an immediate collapse of the Afghan government

The Taliban Thursday captured Ghazni, a strategic center of Ghazni province, just 150 km off Kabul, bringing the total number of provincial centers under their control to ten, in a week-long offensive sweeping across northern Afghanistan. Herat city, the last remaining stronghold of the government in the west, was also breached by insurgents

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday morning paid a visit to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, accompanied by powerful warlord Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum and hundreds of special forces, as the Taliban took control of eight provincial centers, including six in a week’s time

The Afghan government in Kabul could collapse within the next three months, US intelligence officials said in a newly revised assessment, as the Taliban continued to make exponential gains in the war-torn country