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Facebook bans Taliban and supporting content on platform: Report

Social media giant Facebook has said that it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting it from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation, according to media report

Situation grim in Afghanistan, says Indian envoy after returning from Kabul

The Indian Air Force (IAF) plane C-17, Globemaster, carried more than 150 Indian nationals from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to Jamnagar on Tuesday.

Evacuation flights resume at Kabul airport as Biden defends US withdrawal

Afghan politicians to meet Taliban in Doha; Kabul's streets are calm

Vijayan seeks urgent steps to repatriate Keralites stranded in Kabul

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday requested the Centre to take urgent steps to repatriate Malayalis stranded in Kabul in view of the Taliban capturing power in Afghanistan

Amid crisis, India announces new category of visa for Afghans

All Afghans, irrespective of their religion, can apply for the 'e-Emergency X-Misc Visa' online and the applications will be processed in New Delhi.

Afghanistan: Taliban announces 'amnesty', urges women to join government

he Taliban announced an amnesty across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a nervous capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport

IAF plane carrying 120 Indians from Afghanistan lands at Jamnagar airbase

An Indian Air Force plane with 120 people onboard landed on Tuesday at Jamnagar in Gujarat from Kabul in Afghanistan, an official said

Afghan crisis: India bringing back its envoy, other officials from Kabul

The Indian ambassador to Afghanistan and around 120 of his staff members are being brought back to India on Tuesday from Kabul by a C-17 heavy-lift aircraft of the IAF

Biden skirts US failures in Afghan mayhem as Taliban gains control

Joe Biden ignored his own administration's failures when he tried to explain why civilians in Afghanistan's capital have been left stranded and in danger from the Taliban because of US departure

Afghanistan: Blinken talks to Qureshi, Pak calls for 'inclusive' settlement

Pakistan has emphasised the importance of an 'inclusive' political settlement in Afghanistan as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

India introduces new electronic visa in view of situation in Afghanistan

India has reviewed visa provisions and introduced a new category of electronic visa called 'e-Emergency X-Misc Visa' with an aim to fast-track visa applications for entry into India

Taliban 2.0 & its discontents

India should not be rushed into a response

As Taliban return, 20 years of Afghan women's progress looks set to vanish

Even before the fall of Kabul on Sunday, the situation was rapidly deteriorating, exacerbated by the planned withdrawal of all foreign military personnel and declining international aid

Explaining the Taliban's lightning victory in Afghanistan

If anyone believed that the Taliban would halt at the gates of Kabul, they displayed a considerable ignorance of Afghan realpolitik

Joe Biden says he stands 'squarely' behind Afghanistan withdrawal

Biden defends Afghanistan decision, blames Afghan army's unwillingness to fight

Afghans have broken 'shackles of slavery': Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday seemed to endorse the Taliban taking over Kabul by saying that Afghanistan has broken the "shackles of slavery" in the neighbouring war-torn country

Afghans throng Kabul's international airport to flee Taliban: Report

While there were no major reports of abuses, many stayed home and remained fearful as the insurgents' advance saw prisons emptied and armories looted

Taliban takeover: Afghan military jet shot down by Uzbek air defences

The jet crashed late on Sunday in Uzbekistan's southernmost Surxondaryo province adjacent to Afghanistan

Afghanistan crisis: China ready for 'friendly relations' with Taliban

Beijing has sought to maintain unofficial ties with the Taliban throughout the US' withdrawal from Afghanistan, which spurred an advance by the Islamist hardliners across the country

US-India flights to take longer after Afghanistan's airspace shuts

AI stops commercial flights; MEA waits for services to resume to begin repatriation