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As the Taliban takes hold of the Afghan capital, Kabul’s citizens wait anxiously to see how life under the Islamist regime will unfold.

At least 20 people were killed and 79 injured in a fuel tank explosion in the Akkar region in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross said on its Twitter account … Read More

In late 2001, the rolling hills to the west of Afghanistan’s Maidan Shahr were scarred with the black eruptions of high explosives, as the last few Taliban fighters were pounded … Read More

Read CNN’s Hassan Nasrallah Fast Facts for a look at the life of the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group.

Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, American and allied forces began combat operations in Afghanistan, targeting al Qaeda and the Taliban regime that had been giving al Qaeda … Read More

The Taliban retook Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Sunday, nearly two decades after they were driven from the city by US troops.

The Taliban have retaken control of Afghanistan, nearly two decades after they were driven out of the capital by US troops.

The ferries that once shuttled tourists to and from the little islets in Iran’s Lake Urmia sit rusty, unable to move, on what is rapidly becoming a salt plain. Just … Read More

The Taliban have retaken control of Afghanistan nearly two decades after they were driven out of the capital by US troops.