In a scathing indictment of the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis during the final set of events that led to Taliban’s takeover of power in 2021, the US State Department confirmed Washington’s bureaucratic sluggishness as a significant reason behind the chaos that gripped West’s evacuation from Afghanistan and successive fall of democratically-elected Ashraf Ghani government.

Both Trump and Biden responsible for Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan: US state department

A Taliban official has claimed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned Afghanistan’s former president Ashraf Ghani from engaging in Afghan politics. Ghani and his family members have been living in exile in UAE after the Taliban ousted the civilian government in Kabul in mid-August.

Taliban claim UAE banned ex-president Ghani from engaging in Afghan politics

Just two days back Western forces were warned against extending the August 31 deadline for airlifts. The Taliban had asked the US to stop evacuating Afghans. A flight with a seating capacity of 345 people left Kabul near-empty. Are the Taliban not letting Afghans board flights?

Charter flights leaving Kabul nearly empty despite desperate attempts to evacuate