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Roman Babushkin stressed that Taliban should be judged not on their "commitments but rather on their real actions to ensure law and order, fundamental freedoms and human right in Afghanistan”.

Pakistan, it is believed, wants more camps of terror groups Lashkar and Jaish on Afghan soil in the run-up to FATF plenary later this year to escape grey list.

A timetable for completing the evacuation of Americans, Afghan allies and others has yet to be worked out with the country's new rulers

The EU will only cooperate with the Taliban if they respect fundamental rights, including those of women, and prevent the use of Afghanistan's territory by terrorists, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday.

A former Nevada prison inmate was sentenced Tuesday to three consecutive life sentences in the longunsolved 1984 hammer killings of three Colorado family members, including a 7yearold girl, inside their suburban Denver home.

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A CIA report in July noted that Afghanistan forces and government had lost control of the roads leading to Kabul and "the viability of the central government was in serious jeopardy."

The first of three German evacuation planes sent to Afghanistan has landed in Kabul to evacuate foreign nationals and local Afghan staff, security and government sources told Reuters late on Monday.

A German military aircraft has landed in Kabul to evacuate foreign nationals and local Afghan staff, security sources told Reuters late on Monday.

The downing took place in southeastern Uzbekistan, in the Surkhandarya region on the border with Afghanistan.

As US forces were evacuating Afghanistan's capital after the Taliban's swift takeover, the official said, "Any Central Bank assets the Afghan government have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban."

Hundreds of Afghans have jammed the airport trying to get out of the country after Taliban insurgents entered the capital on Sunday

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani slipped out of his country Sunday in the same way he had led it in recent years a lonely and isolated figure.

There are fears of a security vacuum in the capital as thousands of police and other armed services members have abandoned their posts, uniforms and even weapons.

The collapse of Jalalabad, near a major border crossing with Pakistan, leaves Afghanistan's central government in control of just Kabul and seven other provincial capitals out of the country's 34.