Ads have been defaced on shops such as once-banned beauty parlors, which proliferated in Afghan capital after US toppling of Islamists in 2001

British officer says not all infants made it to safety; thousands stranded in no-man's land between Taliban fighters and Western troops

Taliban 2.0 is a hard sell for those with memories of the extremists' brutal 1996-2001 regime

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman looks at the Afghan situation and a diplomatic crisis with Poland; US correspondent Jacob Magid describes developments in a USY sexual abuse report

Emirati foreign ministry confirms Ashraf Ghani is in the country; his whereabouts had been unknown since he fled Kabul in face of Taliban advance

Militants attack demonstrators in Jalalabad for taking down their banner and flying Afghanistan's national flag; journalists among those beaten

Remaining dreams for a free Afghanistan erased in a week, as militants roll through country before seizing Kabul: 'The only thing we have is our God'

Monument depicted militia leader Abdul Ali Mazari; former president Karzai and senior official in ousted government hold talks with conquerors

When Meretz's Gaby Lasky said Afghan refugees should be let into Israel, Sheffi Paz said she and her ilk should be put before a firing squad

American's longest conflict was never formally declared a war and was paid for with borrowed money; amid the carnage, infant mortality dropped and literacy climbed