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U.S. Embassy in Kabul will be mostly evacuated within next 36 hours
By Christina Ruffini
Major northern Afghan city Mazar-i-Sharif falls to Taliban
'A self-inflicted wound': Former ambassador to Afghanistan, Spokane Valley native Ryan Crocker says Taliban rout was ...
By Orion Donovan-smith & Donovan Smith
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Taliban surge exposes failure of U.S. efforts to build Afghan army
By Idrees Ali & Jonathan Landay
Costs of the Afghanistan war, in lives and dollars
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Map: See How the Taliban Gained Control in Afghanistan
By David Zucchino & Scott Reinhard
'Forget the visas': The scramble is on to save Afghan partners as Taliban close in
By Bryan Bender & Alexander Ward
Taliban fighters take control of the skies above Afghanistan after seizing mi-17 helicopters
By Tom Pyman
The Taliban is retaking Afghanistan. Here's how the Islamist group rebuilt and what it wants.
By Derek Hawkins
Afghanistan Government Collapses as Taliban Take Kabul
By Yaroslav Trofimov
Biden authorizes 1,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan
By Donald Judd & Barbara Starr
Biden blames Trump for Afghanistan bedlam
By Erin Doherty
How the Taliban Overran the Afghan Army, Built by the U.S. Over 20 Years
By Yaroslav Trofimov
Afghanistan's commercial hub, Mazar-i-Sharif, falls to the insurgents. (Published 2021)
By Sharif Hassan, Najim Rahim & Christina Goldbaum
Afghanistan Live Updates: Last Government-Held City in Afghanistan's North Falls to Taliban (Published 2021)
By Sharif Hassan, fahim abed & Najim Rahim
Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations (Published 2021)
By David E. Sanger & Helene Cooper
Afghanistan Live Updates: 20-Year U.S. War Ending as It Began, With Taliban Ruling Afghanistan (Published 2021)
By Najim Rahim, Thomas Gibbons-Neff & Christina Goldbaum
Here are the countries evacuating their embassies in Kabul as the Taliban takes over
By Claire Parker & Ruby Mellen
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani flees country as capital falls to insurgents – as it happened
By Joanna Walters, Helen Sullivan & Jessica Murray
Last major Afghan city in the north falls to the Taliban
By Emma Graham-Harrison & Michael Savage
President Biden will own the fall of Kabul — when the real killing begins
By Kenneth R. Timmerman