For the first time in nine months of war in #Ethiopia's #Tigray region, aid workers will run out of food this week to deliver to millions of people who are going hungry, the head of the U.S. government's humanitarian agency said, blaming the government for restricting access.

People in Tigray are starving with up to 900,000 in famine conditions and more than five million in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.

#Iran restarted exports of gasoline to #Afghanistan a few days ago, following a request from the Taliban, Iran's Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Products Exporters' Union said. (Reuters)

What military equipment the Taliban captured:

🔴 A Taliban spokesman has said Afghans should not to go to the airport or try to leave the country.

#CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting Monday in #Kabul with the #Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and the Biden administration since the militants seized the Afghan capital. (WaPo)

AFP report for #Panjshir Valley

Algeria decides to cut ties with Morocco 'due to hostile tendencies' of its neighbor': Foreign minister

🔴 Russian warplanes have renewed their airstrikes on northwestern Syria’s #Idlib province.

The United Nations warned of increasing escalations.

Idlib, Aleppo, Hama and Latakia have witnessed an intensification in airstrikes and shelling – leading to dozens of civilian casualties, including women and children, and the largest displacement recorded since March 2020.

Updated map of #Afghanistan [Aug 26]

- Ahmad Massoud forces still in Panjshir and resists the Taliban; delegations of both sides met in Charikar.

- The supplies of food and water to Panjshir continuing as usual.

- The Taliban accused of abductions of people used as shields.

🔴 One of the entry gates to Kabul airport has been hit by a large explosion only hours after western intelligence agencies warned of an imminent terrorist threat.

🔴 The French ambassador to Kabul has warned civilians to withdraw from the airport gates as a second attack is expected. - Al Jazeera

Update: A Pentagon spokesperson has said that the bombing at #Kabul airport has resulted in a number of US and civilian casualties and was the result of a "complex attack".

🔴 официальный представитель Пентагона заявил, что взрыв в аэропорту Кабула привел к ряду жертв в США и среди гражданского населения и явился результатом «комплексной атаки».

The preliminary reports say that 13 people were killed and 50 injured in the Kabul attack, with most of the casualties women and children.

🔴 At least 12 US service members killed amid reports of 60 civilian deaths as Islamic State claims responsibility for #Kabul attacks.

All together- 6 explosions tonight.

❗The Times is exclusively reporting that UK Foreign Office staff left documents with the contact details of Afghans who worked with them at the British embassy compound in Kabul.

The British embassy compound in Kabul has since been seized by the Taliban.

Death toll from multiple explosions in #Kabul reaches 90, over 150 injured, according to local media reports and Afghan health ministry

По данным местных СМИ и министерства здравоохранения Афганистана, число погибших в результате множественных взрывов в Кабуле достигло 90, более 150 получили ранения.

⚡️ Броят на жертвите от множеството експлозии в #Кабул достига 90, а над 150 са ранените според съобщения на местните медии и афганистанското здравно министерство.

Situation map #Syria [Aug 27]