The 63-year-old former president was once the fresh face of the new Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when he was plucked from relative obscurity and hailed as the modernising force with tribal ties that could transform the crippled nation.

Sirajuddin Haqqani heads the Haqqani Network, an important faction of the Taliban. Sirajuddin has been passing instructions from Quetta in Pakistan

Indian Air Force's C-17 aircraft flight carrying 168 people, including 107 Indian nationals landed at IAF's Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad on August 22 from Afghanistan's Kabul.

With the swift collapse Sunday of the government in Kabul, the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks that triggered the US invasion will be marked with the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan, despite a cost to the United States of nearly 2,500…

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Pentagon believes it has the ability to get all Americans who want to leave Afghanistan out by August 31.

The UK, US, and Australian governments have urged people not to travel to the Kabul airport citing the threat of a terror attack.

The only major route for merchandise to enter and exit the country - the International North-South Transport Corridor - has now shut to Afghan vehicles as Iran places stricter vigil on who uses its highways.

Next week, on September 1, Hamid Karzai International Airport will be under the control of the hardline Islamists, who already on Friday claimed to have moved into certain areas of the military side of the facility.

The Taliban have promised a softer rule than during their first stint in power from 1996-2001, when women's freedoms in Afghanistan were sharply curtailed and they were banned from higher education.

The 50-year-old Bansari Lal Arendeh, an Indian citizen, was abducted from the Karte Parwan area of Afghanistan capital, according to a tweet by Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa.

The 50-year-old Bansari Lal Arendeh, an Indian citizen, was abducted from the Karte Parwan area of Afghanistan capital, according to a tweet by Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa.

The list was presented by government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid at a new conference in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

After the Reuters story about the missing child came out, some of Safi's neighbours - who had noticed his return from the airport months earlier with a baby - recognized the photos and posted comments about his whereabouts on a translated version of the article.