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Afghanistan's Taliban authorities marked the fourth anniversary of their takeover on Friday buoyed by Russia's first official recognition of their government, a step they hope other countries will follow.

Friday marks the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan following two decades of insurgency. France, like many countries, evacuated thousands of its citizens, alongside Afghans threatened by the re-emergence of the hardline Islamist regime. Based on eyewitness accounts, this period has been captured in a new…

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew after more than two decades of a costly war

Exactly four years later, our reunion in the safety of my new home in Melbourne was sweet

Aid agencies say more than half of Afghanistan’s population, roughly 23 million people, need humanitarian assistance.

The Taliban say helicopters will shower Kabul with flowers to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan

Rights groups and the UN have repeatedly warned that some Afghans returning are at risk of persecution because of their gender, profession or links to the former Western-backed administration.

The day after the Taliban stormed into the Afghan capital in August 2021, Afghans desperate to evacuate clung to the fuselage of a departing American plane at Kabul airport -- only to fall to their deaths.

Weeks after he was forced to return from Iran, Mohammad Mohsen Zaryab was still searching for somewhere to live in Kabul, where rental prices have soared along with an influx of Afghans expelled from neighbouring countries.

It comes after a leaked MoD database exposed the details of thousands of Afghan asylum seekers

In Kabul’s alleys and courtyards, boys in white caps and tunics recite verses from the Quran in a growing network of madrassas, the religious schools increasingly filling the gaps in Afghanistan’s fractured education system.