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ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday (Aug 18) that it is hosting ousted Afghan president Ashraf Ghani "on humanitarian grounds", after he fled his country amid the Taliban's takeover. Ghani's whereabouts had been unknown…

The Afghanistan embassy in Tajikistan has sought Interpol to arrest former president Ashraf Ghani, Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib and the former Chief Advisor to Ghani, Fazel Mahmood for theft of the treasury, according to…

MOSCOW: Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan praised the Taliban's conduct on Monday (Aug 16) and said the group, still officially designated a terrorist organisation in Russia, had made Kabul safer in the first 24 hours than it had been…

The weeks leading up to Kabul’s collapse saw a flurry of diplomatic activity by the US and its allies in Qatar aimed at heading off exactly the chaotic scenes in the Afghan capital that have so horrified the world and put Joe…

There may be debates over where Taliban originated, in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but the fundamentalist insurgent organization — which is also one of the worst-known terror groups in the world and is now back in the power corridors of…

<!-- -->Thousands of people were trying to escape KabulKabul: The Taliban were in control of Afghanistan on Monday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded the terror group had won the 20-year war.The astonishingly…

KABUL/ISLAMABAD: Kabul fell to the Taliban in a swift and seemingly bloodless takeover on Sunday as President Ashraf Ghani took a flight to Tajikistan, later left for Tashkent in Uzbekistan, leaving a small band of political representatives…

<!-- -->Before becoming president, Ashraf Ghani enjoyed a stellar career as academic and economist. FileKabul: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani prided himself on being one of the foremost global experts on failed states, only to watch…

“Greetings, the Taliban have reached the city. We are escaping,” said Sahraa Karimi, the head of Afghan Film, in a post shared widely on Facebook. Filming herself as she fled on foot, out of breath and clutching at her headscarf, she…

KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Saturday the remobilisation of the country's armed forces was a "top priority", as Taliban fighters inched closer to the capital after routing the country's defences over the past week. "In the…