Photos of the US forces evacuating Americans from Kabul on a helicopter were a strikingly similar to the US's exit from Saigon in 1975. What happened in Vietnam 46 years ago?
IndiaTV spoke to three Afghan students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Here's what they said.
The insurgents’ every action in their sudden sweep to power is being watched closely. They insist they have changed and won’t impose the same draconian restrictions they did when they last ruled Afghanistan, all but eliminating women’s rights, carrying out public executions and banning television and music.
Former President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, a senior official in the ousted government met with Anas Haqqani as part of preliminary meetings that a spokesman for Karzai said would would facilitate eventual negotiations with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the top Taliban political leader.
An official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government has in the US will not be available to the Taliban, which remains on the Treasury Department's sanctions designation list.
Earlier, reports claimed that Ghani has fled to neighbouring Tajikistan or Uzbekistan as the Taliban swiftly took control of Afghanistan in just couple of weeks the US forces started to pull out of the country after over 20 years.
President Biden in April announced that all American troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11 this year, thus bringing to end the country's longest war, spanning across two decades.
NATO Secretary-General's remarks came after he chaired a meeting to discuss the security implications of the Taliban’s sweeping victory in Afghanistan.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the United States was set to complete its troop withdrawal.
IAF C17 aircraft carrying India envoy, diplomatic staff from Kabul lands at Jamnagar airport.
An Indian Air Force plane with 148 people onboard landed on Tuesday at Jamnagar in Gujarat from Kabul in Afghanistan.
An Indian Air Force plane with 120 people onboard landed on Tuesday at Jamnagar in Gujarat from Kabul in Afghanistan.
On Monday, the U.S. military and officials focus was on Kabul’s airport, where thousands of Afghans trapped by the sudden Taliban takeover rushed the tarmac and clung to U.S. military planes deployed to fly out staffers of the U.S. Embassy, which shut down Sunday, and others.
A video shared on Twitter by a freelance journalist shows a group of Afghan pilots who had fled from their country to neighbouring Uzkeistan.
The Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and took control of the presidential palace. Soon after the terror group claimed control over the Afghan capital, several countries evacuated their diplomatic personnel from the country.
Afghanistan: The evacuees include Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronendra Tandon, embassy's staff, their family members and the journalists, who went to cover the war.
China said that a few Council members said in their statement that they wish to see that a greater role is played by Afghan's neighbours and neighbouring countries.
All is not well within Afghanistan. Taliban have taken over the war-torn country. Vice-president Amrullah Saleh has declared himself as the "care-taker" president of the nation.
The unforeseen video of Kabul flight has left Bollywood actress' Anushka Sharma and Kangana Ranaut in shock. The leading stars took to Instagram and shared their reactions.
Fear and panic prevail in Afghanistan capital Kabul as people try to flee following the Taliban's dramatic takeover of the country less than a couple of weeks after the US security forces started to pull out from the country.
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