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'Leave ASAP': US, UK urge citizens to leave Afghanistan amid Taliban surge

The fall of Sheberghan came just hours after the Islamist group seized Zaranj.

Christina Lamb: The day I survived a Taliban attack

Times: Christina Lamb asks troops who saved her in Afghanistan if the war was worth it.

Meet the Muslim women giving new life to Christmas crackers

They don't find the Christmas cracker jokes funny either.

Afghans who worked with NZ fear deadly reprisals as Taliban closes in

A group of 38 Afghan civilians who helped the New Zealand war effort plead for help.

China pledges support for Taliban in hope for 'peace'

The Taliban are now believed to control half of Afghanistan after Nato withdrawal.

Taliban have 'strategic momentum' in Afghan war - US general

The country faces a critical period in coming weeks as US forces withdraw.

How the Afghan war showed the limits of US military power

ANALYSIS: The Americans lacked understanding of local politics, history and culture.

Fear and misery in an Afghan city where Taliban stalk the streets

New York Times: The city battling a cat-and-mouse war for control.

'Unbelievably bad': George W Bush's dark warning

The former president warned one Biden decision will have 'unspeakable' consequences.

A city under siege: What the war looks like on Afghanistan's front line

New York Times: As US troops withdrew, the Taliban launched an offensive on Lashkar Gah.

'Why do we deserve to die?' Kabul's Hazaras bury their daughters

New York Times: The bomb attack killed scores of schoolgirls.

'My sister had so many dreams': Kabul blasts kill nearly 70 schoolgirls

Body after body, coffin after coffin, the weeping crowds carried them up to the graveyard.

'There was blood everywhere': Death toll soars after horror bomb attack on girls' school

In the capital rattled by relentless bombings, Saturday's attack was among the worst.

Deadly bombing: At least 30 killed in attack on girls' school in Kabul

Bomb explodes near a girls' school in west Kabul, killing 30 people, many of them pupils.

Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women's rights: US report

Any gains in women's rights in Afghanistan will be at risk after US troops withdraw.

'Sanctioned massacres': China again accuses Australia of bloodbath in Afghanistan

China issues fresh attack on Aussie, with a poster taking aim at its troops

Day 1 of the end of the US war in Afghanistan

New York Times: Afghans continue fighting with fleeting hopes of peace as US leaves.

Final phase of ending US's 'forever war' in Afghanistan begins

Today is the official start of the withdrawal of the remaining US forces.