The Taliban have announced an interim government in Afghanistan, declaring the country an "Islamic Emirate". The new cabinet, entirely male, is made up of senior Taliban figures some of whom are notorious for attacks on US forces...

GOP Rep. Michael McCaul said six planes with Americans were being held 'hostage' at an Afghanistan airport by the Taliban.

President Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan troop withdrawal has been terrible from the start. Just days before the Taliban took over the capital of Kabul...pro ised we wouldn’t see the same situation that we’d seen decades ago in Saigon

The Taliban is killing people in Afghanistan they find with copies of the Bible on their mobile phones, a Christian non-profit announced on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump has issued a new call for the US president to "resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan”.

The Taliban’s stunning advances in Afghanistan threatens to be a stain on President Joe Biden’s record... Twenty years of investment that cost $2 trillion and nearly 2,500 US lives were disintegrating... as the Islamist insurgents ... closed in on the capital Kabul.