The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country aje.io/rzu6sg
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At least 5 people killed in Kabul airport as hundreds of people tried to forcibly enter planes leaving the Afghan capital, witnesses tell news media.
One witness said it's unclear whether victims were killed by gunshots or in a stampede.
Who are Taliban’s key leaders in Afghanistan? aje.io/sn4gcn
Shots were heard amid scenes of chaos and panic at Kabul's international airport, as hundreds of Afghans rushed to secure a flight and flee the country after the Taliban took over the capital ⤵️
"The region could not afford continued instability in Afghanistan"
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, meets delegation of Afghan political leaders who arrived on Sunday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
Taliban fighters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, have started collecting weapons from civilians because people no longer need them for personal protection, says Taliban official.
Shocking footage from Kabul Airport shows several Afghans chasing down a US Air Force plane as it takes off, with some reportedly falling to their death while clinging to the plane.
Russia will seek ‘pragmatic’ engagement with the Taliban after the armed group seized control of Afghanistan, say analysts aje.io/26e283
An Afghan military jet has crashed after crossing the border into Uzbekistan and its pilot ejected and survived, the Uzbek defence ministry is quoted as saying.
Who is Ashraf Ghani, the former president of Afghanistan? aje.io/6xan3v
The US spent more than $8bn over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan’s opium and heroin trade.
That strategy failed has failed, we look at why ⤵️ aje.io/q7xrqc
Kabul is brought to a near standstill on the first day of the Taliban's “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” as planes carrying Afghan soldiers land in Tajikistan.
• Switzerland's last agency workers escape Kabul on a US flight
• Belgium to send four aircraft for evacuations
• Italian diplomats and Afghans arrive in Rome
• India says its doors are open to Sikh and Hindu minorities
Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban throng Kabul airport — in pictures aje.io/tzx3qr
At least seven people were killed after a panic rush of crowds at Kabul airport.
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Kabul, said the Taliban are stopping people getting into the terminal of Kabul airport and have been firing warning shots to keep people away from the area.
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.
Qatar, Egypt and the US urge Israel and Hamas to conclude a ceasefire agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Biden, amid Israel's continuing bombardment of besieged Gaza.
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children, has told Al Jazeera that “Gaza is witnessing the worst levels of malnutrition, of child malnutrition especially, worldwide right now.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has denounced far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for threatening to dissolve Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if he were to accept President Biden’s new ceasefire deal.
On May 29, South Africans will head to the polls to vote in national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly, which will choose the president for the next 5 years.
Here’s a guide to the elections and major political parties ⤵️
South Africa follows a proportional voting system where parties and candidates compete for 400 seats in the National Assembly.
For the first time, independent candidates will compete in the elections with voters given three ballots instead of two.
Who is in South Africa’s current National Assembly?
South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.
Israel calls the ICJ binding order to immediately stop its attack on Rafah “outrageous, morally repugnant and disgusting” as it continues its war and bombardment of Gaza.
The Elders group of world leaders has said “no country is above the law” and Israel’s “unlawful approach” to its war on Gaza cannot continue following the ICJ’s order to halt attacks on Rafah.
US Senator Bernie Sanders warned the US that if it ignores “crimes against humanity” being committed in Gaza, it will not have the credibility to criticise “the actions of any country, no matter how terrible.”