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Afghan leader Ghani says Taliban has won as militants enter Kabul

by Jay DESHMUKH / David FOX KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday after fleeing the country that the Taliban had won, as the militants entered Kabul — nearly 20 years after they were ousted from power by a US-led invasion. Ghani left as the insurgents closed in on the capital, before ultimately entering the city and taking over the presidential palace, sealing a nationwide military victory in just 10 days. The […]

Blast rocks Afghan capital, close to state buildings, U.S. embassy

(Reuters) A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an office of Afghanistan’s main national security agency in Kabul on Tuesday, killing or wounding several people, the first assault in the capital since the group declared their new spring offensive a week ago. President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms” in a statement from the presidential palace, only a few hundred meters away from the scene of the blast. Several people were killed […]