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In spite of its promises, the Taliban has taken no steps to create an inclusive government in which all ethnic groups and political parties play a role

A year on from the fall of Kabul, the lives of women under the Taliban have shrunk to exclude opportunities for education, work and leisure

They have been told they have to leave their current accommodation on July 31 because students will be returning to the property in August

The latest setback for girls’ education is certain to receive widespread condemnation from the international community that has been urging the Taliban leaders to open schools and give women their right to public space.

The current meltdown in Afghanistan is a nightmare. The international community must act, and there are three things in particular that it can do without rewarding the Taliban, writes Gordon Brown and Martin Griffiths

Ghani’s sudden and secret departure August 15 left the city rudderless as US and Nato forces were in the final stages of their chaotic withdrawal from the country after 20 years

This journalist fled as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August. Unable to return home without putting at risk everyone she loves and hounded by threatening calls, she remains in hiding in the country four months on

The Afghan Women’s Network said the family "are terrified that the Taliban will discover them in their hiding place and that they will all be killed"

The Afghan Admission Programme will open for applications this Thursday and has up to 500 places available

Closing off all safer options forces abject refugees to approach shores by the most perilous means, writes Diane Taylor and Angelique Chrisafis 

Officials from both sides have said issues to be tackled include reining in extremist groups and the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country

UK officials have held talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan in part to prevent the country from becoming “an incubator for terrorism”.

Scheme will allow current or former Afghan nationals living in Ireland to apply to bring their close family members who are vulnerable

The UK Government paid out compensation for the deaths of 289 civilians in Afghanistan, including at least 16 children, according to analysis of official figures.

"As supermodels and millionaires, reality stars and actors walked the red carpet in New York this week, Afghan women were protesting a Taliban diktat one photo at a time"

Rulers have always been cognisant of the importance of having religion on their side, writes TP O’Mahony.

China will see the US departure along with its liberal democratic notions as an opportunity to extend its influence in the region

Taliban special forces have brought a protest march by Afghan women demanding equal rights to an abrupt and frightening end in Kabul by firing shots into the air.

Texas and the Taliban have more in common than their citizens might acknowledge

The elite troops – lauded for their role in the airlift of Irish citizens from Afghanistan – have been denied tens of thousands of euro in allowance increases recommended 11 years ago

In order to get back to Ireland, the family flew via Georgia, Finland and the Netherlands

About a third of the country’s population of 38 million were facing 'emergency' or 'crisis' levels of food insecurity, according to Ramiz Alakbarov, the local UN humanitarian co-ordinator

UK officials and the Taliban are in talks over how to secure “safe passage” out of Afghanistan for British nationals and Afghan allies.

The rescue mission may become a useful distraction for the UK government who are rightly on the rack over this fumbled, catastrophic evacuation from Afghanistan, but military circles are angry and frustrated at having to help a planeload of cats and dogs leave the country. 

'There is no warning about music, but people themselves have stopped'

Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston indicated the RAF could strike Isis-K targets in Afghanistan

The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit.

The Pentagon is tight-lipped about final operations and has not specified when the withdrawal will be completed ahead of Tuesday’s deadline

Irish embassy gave Omid Ahmadi and his family a rendezvous to get out of Afghanistan but it proved impossible to make their way through the chaos

The MP acknowledged that emails from Afghans desperate to leave the country may not have been read

A dystopian nightmare will become real for all of us without drastic change

Some 26 unaccompanied minors arrived here from their war-torn homeland last year – making up the majority of unaccompanied minors presenting at Ireland’s border

A spokesperson for the Defence Forces said the team are now safely home on Irish soil

Most of the more than 20 allied countries involved in airlifting Afghans and their own citizens out of Kabul said they had completed evacuations by Friday

In total, 36 Irish citizens or residents have been safely evacuated since the Taliban took hold of Kabul

Dalal Alshohaib's story is one of stuggle and ultimate triumph. 

26 Irish citizens evacuated, a further 60 with a right to reside in Ireland left behind 

'They have no hope for a life under the Taliban,' says Irish citizen whose family are trapped in Kabul

Amid rising concern for the safety of those left in Kabul, military experts raise questions about Ireland's capacity to protect its citizens

Joe Biden is being dragged over the coals for the impetuous capitulation of the US involvement in Afghanistan.  The ‘hawks’ in the US administration see this as an embarrassing defeat, making America look weak, which is the greatest imaginable sin.

Carnage in Afghanistan

“This is what defeat looks like,” Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat has said of the explosions that have killed at least 60 people in Kabul.

Irish officials are fast-tracking 103 family reunification visa applications, and are looking into possibly expanding the scheme