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Timeline: takeover of the Afghan Taliban

Timeline: takeover of the Afghan Taliban
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Paris: Here are the main developments since the Taliban seized Kabul, took power in Afghanistan after two decades of war.
On August 15, Taliban fighters appeared on the edge of Kabul after a flash attack was launched in May when US and NATO troops began to withdraw.
In room 10 days, they seized cities by city throughout the country with little or no resistance.
Television images show the Taliban who took the Presidential Palace.
President Ashraf Ghani escaped from the country and said on Facebook that “Taliban had won” and that he went to avoid “flood bloodshed”.
People who feared surrounded Kabul airport, the only way out of the country.
Chaos broke on the foundation when people tried to rush the plane.
All military and civil flights were stopped, before continuing Monday night.
China became the first country to say it was ready to deepen the “friendly and cooperative” relationship with the Taliban.
Then accused Washington from “leaving a terrible chaos”.
The UN Security Council said the country should not be a breeding place for terrorism.
In developing criticism, President Joe Biden insisted he did not have regret and emphasized that US forces could not defend a country that the leaders “surrendered and escape”.
The Taliban told civil servants in Kabul to continue their duties “without fear”.
Some shops reopen and flight evacuation from city airport restart.
At their first press conference since seizing power, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Taliban would let “women work in accordance with Islamic principles”.
The girls returned to school in herat held by the Taliban.
UE Foreign Policy Head Josep Borrell said the block had to talk to the Taliban.
Karim Khan, head of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, said the crime reported during the increase in Taliban might amount to violations of international law.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the global community to prevent Afghan’s “collapse” after the Taliban takeover.
NATO said the allies had mobilized enough aircraft to arrest foreign nationals and their Afghan colleagues from Kabul but land access to the airport was a “big challenge”.
Within a few hours from the Taliban Co-Founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar returned to Afghanistan, the group said it would be “different” this time.
It will forgive his enemies and women do not need to wear a comprehensive burqa.
Biden said he could not guarantee the final result of emergency evacuation from Kabul airport, calling it one of the most “difficult” airlift operations.
The US told its citizens to avoid traveling to the airport because of the “potential security threat” near the gate.
Pressure was built in Biden to extend the August 31 deadline to complete the rescue mission, with the Head of the EU Foreign Policy Josep Borrell said “it was mathematically impossible” to complete the evacuation on that date.
The British Ministry of Defense said that seven Afghanistan died in many people in Kabul, without giving conditions.
The previous day Sky News news aired from at least three bodies outside the airport.
The Taliban blamed the US for a dramatic scene at Kabul Airport, an official who said that “there was peace and quiet throughout the country, but there was only chaos at Kabul Airport”.
Since then there is more than resistance with some former government forces gather in Panjshir Valley, North Kabul.
The National Resistance Front is prepared for “long-term conflict” but also still trying to negotiate with the Taliban about the inclusive government, spokesman for Movement Ali Maisam Nazary told AFP.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters headed to the Panjshir valley “to control it, after local state officials refused to surrender peacefully”, the group wrote on his Arab twitter account.
On the 23rd, the Taliban described the August deadline for evacuation as a “red line”.
On the 24th, Biden said he had decided to stick to the August 31 deadline to attract American forces from Afghanistan, after talking to G7 colleagues.
On the 25th, US Secretary, Antony Blinken said the Taliban would allow Americans and at risk of leaving Afghanistan after August 31.
The suicide bombing on August 26 was claimed by the Islamic State in tearing out of Kabul airport, killing civilian scores as also 13 members of US services.
The next day, England, France and Spain were among the latest countries to end their evacuation from Kabul.
More than 100,000 people have been flown out of the country since August 14, according to the US government.

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