Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bob Kustra That old line from Mark Twain — "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme" — comes to mind when comparing ...

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Larry Mantle discusses the Northern Alliance's seizure of Kabul from Taliban forces with Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Frederick Starr. What does the ...

Amid the chaos that followed the U.S. pullout of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, the Biden administration declared that evacuated Afghans would be allowed to enter the U.S. via humanitarian parole. The ...

In May 2021, the United States abruptly withdrew US “peacekeeping forces” from Afghanistan under the orders of US President Joe Biden as part of a signed agreement between the US and Taliban forces.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Shukria Sediqi knew her days in safety were numbered. As a journalist who advocated for women’s rights, she’d visited shelters and safe ...

A view of Kabul at night. Photo sent from Kabul in June 2025, courtesy of the author’s friend, who wishes to remain anonymous. Credit: Special arrangement In August 2019, the BBC reported that an ...

Four years since Taliban forces seized Kabul and ended two decades of Western presence, Afghan women face near-total exclusion from public life. Nearly 100 edicts have stripped them of basic freedoms, ...

HSToday interviewed Bradley Hope, about Project Brazen’s newest podcast, Kabul Falling. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban regained control of Kabul, nearly 20 years after Coalition Forces had cast them ...

That old line from Mark Twain — "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme" — comes to mind when comparing the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021 to the fall of Saigon to the North ...