The city of Qala-I-Naw also fell to the Taliban, who now control about a third of the country's regional cities and most of northern Afghanistan. The group's rapid advance has dealt a crushing ...

The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, almost 20 years after being ousted by a US-led military coalition. Emboldened by the withdrawal of US troops, they now control all key cities in the ...

Kabul has the most polluted air amongst Afghan cities in the sample, with an annual mean concentration of 86 mg/m 3, which is higher than the recorded annual mean concentration for Beijing.

When the US began dropping bombs on Afghanistan in October 2001 ... control of large swaths of countryside and encroached on cities”. The Taliban’s deputy leader Sirajuddin Haqqani declaring ...