Thousands of people have been evacuated from Kabul by Western nations, mainly the United States, but the process has been chaotic
In the midst of a political storm sparked by the Taliban’s quick capture of Afghanistan and the messy end to America’s longest war, US President Joe Biden has remained defiant.Here VOA’s The Inside Story-The Fall of Kabul
Afghan students studying in Indian colleges and universities are concerned about their country’s future prospects now that the Taliban has retaken power. The majority of Afghan students in India came on scholarships provided by the Indian government as a show of goodwill to promote education in the country
Afghan Refugees in Turkey say they took the risky journey to avoid returning to Taliban authority. Arif Aslan of VOA reports from eastern Turkey, where some of the Afghans he spoke with arrived in recent days after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital Kabul
Afghan university students react to the Taliban’s takeover of their country in the United States and Afghanistan
The rush to evacuate tens of thousands of Americans and Afghans from Afghanistan is heating up as the possibilities for withdrawing any Afghan allies after August 31 become increasingly dubious
In terms of lives lost, personnel deployed, and monies spent, the war in Afghanistan has been costly to the United States
In recent days, the Taliban completed their quick invasion of Afghanistan by capturing Mazar-e-Sharif in the north, 23 years after capturing it and massacring thousands of its residents
Watching chaotic scenes of civilians being evacuated in helicopters from Afghanistan takes me back to the last day of the Vietnam War
As the US deploys approximately 3,000 troops to help evacuate the majority of its diplomats from the US Embassy in Kabul, experts believe the US’s 20-year withdrawal from Afghanistan might have a long-term impact on America’s international position