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Protests in Afghanistan held by Islamic democrats and feminists against the treatment of women by the Taliban began on 17 August 2021, following the fall of Kabul.Supported by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, the protesters also demanded decentralization, multiculturalism, social justice, [4] labor, education, and food. [5]
The local Taliban leadership, including the governor and police chief, fled the city. The revolt happened shortly after the Taliban Deputy Defense Minister Mullah Fazel Mazloom arrested Makhdoom Alem, a senior Uzbek Taliban commander in Mazar-i-Sharif on January 12. The Taliban central leadership responded quickly to the revolt in Maymana ...
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war. The insurgents stormed across the country, capturing ...
The reaction inside the United States — and around the world as the Taliban take over Afghanistan. More than half a dozen countries who joined the United States' invasion 20 years ago are also ...
The second Taliban government is not recognized by the United Nations, which instead continues to recognize the Islamic Republic as the country's legitimate government. On 1 December 2021, the nine-nation Credentials Committee of the General Assembly voted to defer a decision to allow the Taliban to represent Afghanistan at the UN. [67]
The Taliban said their administration took over when Afghanistan was “on the verge of collapse” and that they “managed to rescue the country and government from a crisis" by making sound ...
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