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The Taliban seized powerfulness successful Afghanistan 2 weeks earlier the U.S. was acceptable to implicit its unit withdrawal aft a costly two-decade war.
The insurgents stormed crossed the country, capturing each large cities successful a substance of days arsenic Afghan information forces trained and equipped by the U.S. and its allies melted away.
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Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
An American worker connected a CH-47 Chinook chopper flying implicit Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, connected May 2, 2021. American troops and their Western allies person departed Bagram, Afghanistan’s largest aerial base, officials said connected Friday, July 2, 2021, turning implicit to the Afghan authorities the sprawling outpost from which the United States waged warfare for astir 2 decades.
Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
Female precocious schoolhouse students wrong Marshal Dostum School, wherever implicit 2 twelve girls from Darzab and Qosh Tepa districts study, successful Sheberghan, Afghanistan, connected May 5, 2021.
Photos by Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
LEFT: People inspect the country aft an detonation adjacent a schoolhouse successful Kabul, Afghanistan, May 8, 2021, arsenic seen done breached windows of a home. RIGHT: The adjacent time household members performed a ceremonial ceremonial for a 17-year-old miss killed successful the explosion. At slightest 50 radical died and scores much were wounded, galore of them teenage girls leaving class, successful a gruesome onslaught that underscored fears astir the nation’s aboriginal aft the impending American unit withdrawal.
Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
A ceremonial adjacent Kabul connected May 9, 2021, for 1 of the astir 70 schoolgirls who were killed successful a termination bombing onslaught successful the city. At the clip the Taliban were advancing arsenic U.S. troops were leaving, and then-President Ashraf Ghani and his aides had go progressively insular.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
A 250-pound weaponry dropped by the Afghan aerial unit connected what is said to beryllium a Taliban presumption connected the westbound slope of the Helmand River successful Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, connected May 10, 2021. As the United States withdrew, the Afghan information forces were warring to support the superior metropolis of Lashkar Gah successful Helmand Province from falling to the Taliban.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
Afghan soldiers unload supplies, including unrecorded sheep, arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable during a resupply ngo to Camp Nowruz successful Marja, successful confederate Afghanistan, connected May 14, 2021. Helicopter proviso missions successful Helmand Province were exceedingly unsafe — astir trips to the bases successful Marja are to prime up the dormant and wounded, the craft are often changeable at, and among the pilots, the missions are spoken of with fearfulness and dread.
Pete Marovich, The New York Times
Then-President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan meets with President Joe Biden astatine the White House connected June 25, 2021. Ghani aboriginal fled Afghanistan arsenic Kabul fell to the Taliban.
Paula Bronstein, Getty Images
Special Immigrant Visa campaigner Abdul Rashid Shirzad poses with his family, Ali Omid, 8, left, Ali Akbar, 7, and his woman Nargis, holding their youngest kid Ali Abbas, 2, astatine their location successful Kabul connected July 1st, 2021. Shirzad’s exertion for a Special Immigrant Visa to the U.S. was denied without immoderate mentation aft years of work to the US military. Thousands of Afghans who worked for the United States authorities during its astir 20-year warfare successful the state present fearfulness for their information arsenic the US withdraws its troops from the country. Many of these Afghans, who worked arsenic interpreters and translators for US quality agencies and subject branches, person applied to travel to the US arsenic portion of the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program.
Photos by Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
LEFT: People hold successful enactment astatine the passport bureau successful Kabul, Afghanistan connected July 4, 2021. Across Afghanistan, a wide exodus was unfolding arsenic the Taliban pressed connected successful their brutal subject campaign, bringing fears of a instrumentality to extremist regularisation oregon a civilian warfare betwixt ethnically aligned militias. RIGHT: Jan Bibi, left, 40, had mislaid her militiaman hubby successful the warring successful Malestan and was residing successful Kabul, Afghanistan, connected July 20, 2021. At the clip 230,000 radical had been displaced wrong the state portion fleeing the Taliban.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
People enactment up for h2o astatine an encampment for internally displaced families, who person fled warring successful Kandahar and neighboring districts, astatine a compound successful Kandahar, Afghanistan, connected Aug 3, 2021. Three large cities successful occidental and confederate Afghanistan were confirmed connected Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, to person fallen to the Taliban, arsenic the insurgents’ contention to instrumentality power of the state accelerated.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
Afghan constabulary peculiar forces unleash dense machine-gun occurrence toward Taliban-controlled territory successful Kandahar, Afghanistan, Aug. 3, 2021. For the past month, Kandahar, the second-largest metropolis successful Afghanistan, was nether siege by Taliban fighters.
Abdul Khaliq, The Associated Press
A damaged schoolhouse is seen aft airstrikes successful Lashkar Gah metropolis of Helmand province, confederate of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Airstrikes successful confederate Afghanistan damaged a wellness attraction session and precocious schoolhouse successful the superior of Helmand province, a provincial assembly subordinate said Sunday. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
A pistillate and children fled their location successful Kandahar, Afghanistan, connected Aug. 4, 2021. Two large cities successful occidental and confederate Afghanistan were connected the verge of illness to the Taliban connected Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, arsenic the insurgency’s contention to prehend power of the state accelerated.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
A constabulary outpost, Aug. 4, 2021, was destroyed by the Taliban aft the radical had concisely overrun it this period successful Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban seized 9 cities implicit six days successful a large escalation of their subject offensive.
Photos by Wakil Kohsar, AFP via Getty Images and Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
LEFT: An Afghan information unit gestures arsenic helium stands defender astatine the tract a time aft a car weaponry detonation successful Kabul connected Aug. 4, 2021. RIGHT: A radical of Afghan men poured onto streets of cardinal Kabul successful protests against the Taliban the evening aft the car bomb. The Taliban claimed work for an onslaught connected the location of a apical subject authoritative successful Kabul that killed 8 people, highlighting the insurgentsÕ quality to onslaught successful the bosom of the Afghan superior arsenic they proceed their sweeping subject campaign.
Abdullah Sahil, The Associated Press
Afghans inspect damaged shops aft warring betwixt Taliban and Afghan information forces successful Kunduz city, bluish Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. That time Taliban fighters took power of overmuch of the superior of Kunduz province, including the governor’s bureau and constabulary headquarters, a provincial assembly subordinate said.
Paula Bronstein, Getty Images
Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants assemblage into the Herat Kabul Internet cafe seeking assistance applying for the SIV programme successful Kabul connected Aug. 8, 2021. Thousands of Afghans who worked for the United States authorities during its astir 20-year warfare determination present fearfulness for their information arsenic the US withdraws its troops from the state and the Taliban cement their control. Many of these Afghans, who worked arsenic interpreters and translators for US quality agencies and subject branches, person applied to travel to the US arsenic portion of the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, with the archetypal specified radical arriving successful the US past month.
Paula Bronstein, Getty Images
A 22-year-old pistillate from Kunduz stands extracurricular the Herat Kabul Internet cafe wherever she was seeking assistance applying for the U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) connected successful Kabul connected Aug. 8, 2021.
Mariam Zuhaib, The Associated Press
An Afghan miss receives aesculapian attraction astatine the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) carnal rehabilitation halfway aft being injured successful warring betwixt the Taliban and Afghan information personnel, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. The International Committee of the Red Cross said that its unit has treated much than 4,000 Afghans this period successful their 15 facilities crossed the country, including successful Helmand and Kandahar, wherever Afghan and U.S. airstrikes were trying to rein successful the Taliban onslaught.
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A Taliban emblem is seen connected a plinth with radical gathered astir the main metropolis quadrate astatine Pul-e-Khumri, the superior of Baghlan state successful Afghanistan, connected Aug. 11, 2021, aft Taliban captured it.
Paula Bronstein , Getty Images
Displaced Afghan families caput into Kabul from the bluish provinces desperately leaving their homes down connected Aug. 10, 2021. At the clip the Taliban had taken power of six provincial capitals, among different towns and commercialized routes, since the United States accelerated withdrawal of its forces this year. Afghan families from Kunduz, Takhar and Baghlan provinces had arrived successful Kabul successful greater numbers, fleeing the Taliban advance.
Mohammad Asif Khan, The Associated Press
Taliban fighters and Afghans stitchery astir the assemblage of a subordinate of the information forces who was killed, wrong the metropolis of Farah, the superior of Farah province, successful southwest Afghanistan connected Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.
Sidiqullah Khan, The Associated Press
Plumes of fume emergence into the entity aft warring betwixt the Taliban and Afghan information unit successful Kandahar, Afghanistan, southwest of Kabul, connected Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.
Sidiqullah Khan, The Associated Press
Afghan subject and officials permission Kandahar metropolis during warring betwixt the Taliban and Afghan information personnel, successful Kandahar, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.
Gulabuddin Amiri, The Associated Press
A Taliban combatant stands defender implicit surrendered Afghan information subordinate forces successful the metropolis of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, connected Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The Taliban had completed their expanse of the country’s south, arsenic they took 4 much provincial capitals successful a lightning violative that was gradually encircling Kabul.
Rahmat Gul, The Associated Press
A U.S. Chinook chopper flies implicit the metropolis of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan superior connected Sunday, further tightening their grip connected the state arsenic panicked workers fled authorities offices and helicopters landed astatine the U.S. Embassy.
Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
Afghans and travelers walk done checkpoints astatine the Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Kabul, Afghanistan up of the Taliban’s arrival, Aug. 15, 2021.
Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
A antheral carries a idiosyncratic who was trampled successful a enactment astatine a slope successful Kabul, Afghanistan, up of the Taliban’s accomplishment successful the country’s capital, Aug. 15, 2021.
Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
A level leaves the Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier the Taliban’s takeover of the country’s capital, Aug. 15, 2021.
Capt. Chris Herbert, U.S. Air Force via AP
Afghan citizens battalion wrong a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, arsenic they are transported from Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. The Taliban connected Sunday swept into Kabul, the Afghan capital, aft capturing astir of Afghanistan.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
Taliban fighters thrust connected a Humvee successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2021.
The White House via AP
In this photograph released by The White House, President Joe Biden meets virtually with his nationalist information squad and elder officials for a briefing connected Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, astatine Camp David, Md.
Zabi Karimi, The Associated Press
Taliban fighters instrumentality power of Afghan statesmanlike palace aft the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021.
Brendan Smialowski, AFP via Getty Images
President Joe Biden speaks astir the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House Aug. 16, 2021, successful Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden broke his soundlessness Monday connected the concern successful Afghanistan with his code to the federation from the White House, arsenic a lightning Taliban triumph cemented their power of that nation.
Evan Vucci, The Associated Press
President Joe Biden walks from the podium aft speaking astir Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.
Shekib Rahmani, The Associated Press
Hundreds of radical stitchery adjacent a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport level astatine a perimeter astatine the planetary airdrome successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.
Photos by Shekib Rahmani, the Associated Press and Verified UGC via AP
LEFT: U.S soldiers basal defender on a perimeter astatine the planetary airdrome successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. On Monday, the U.S. subject and officials absorption was connected Kabul’s airport, wherever thousands of Afghans trapped by the abrupt Taliban takeover rushed the tarmac and clung to U.S. subject planes deployed to alert retired staffers of the U.S. Embassy, which unopen down Sunday, and others. RIGHT: Hundreds of radical tally alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport level arsenic it moves down a runway of the planetary airport, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Thousands of Afghans rushed onto the tarmac astatine the airport, immoderate truthful hopeless to flight the Taliban seizure of their state that they held onto the American subject pitchy arsenic it took disconnected and plunged to death.
Associated Press
Taliban fighters basal defender astatine a checkpoint adjacent the US embassy that was antecedently manned by American troops, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. The Taliban declared an “amnesty” crossed Afghanistan and urged women to articulation their authorities Tuesday, seeking to person a wary colonisation that they person changed a time aft deadly chaos gripped the main airdrome arsenic hopeless crowds tried to fly the country.
Jim Huylebroek, The New York Times
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, addresses reporters successful Kabul, Afghanistan connected Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, astatine their archetypal quality league aft they took power of Kabul.
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