The Taliban in Afghanistan have completed a total takeover of the country, following a rapid campaign to control Afghanistan's 34 provinces and provincial capitals.
The situation in Kabul remains tense as the US Embassy in Kabul and US troops administers Kabul's international airport in an effort to evacuate international personnel, the diplomatic corps and members of international aid organisations from Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden late last night however remained resolute in his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan claiming that, in America's "forever war", there was never a good time to withdraw. Yet, the US administration's inability to predict the Taliban advance has drawn wholescale criticism from within Afghanistan and the wider international community as a whole.
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