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Taliban fighters have entered Kabul after a swift country-wide offensive.

NPR speaks with John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, about how the U.S. military and Afghan government arrived at this point.

Washington, D.C., was one of several U.S. cities where members of the Afghan diaspora and their supporters gathered Sunday, while the Taliban closed in on Kabul.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with journalist George Packer, who profiled Afghan's most recent president, Ashraf Ghani, for The New Yorker in 2016.

NPR speaks with journalist Ali Latifi about the latest in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Taliban are at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan is shuttered. A small group of U.S. diplomats are now working out of a makeshift office at Kabul's airport.

Demand for professional Santas and other seasonal workers seems to have cooled. Could that be a sign we're in a recession?

NPR speaks with Chris Alexander, Canada's former ambassador to Afghanistan, about efforts to evacuate Afghans from Kabul amid a Taliban takeover.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about the dramatic events taking place in Afghanistan.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with analyst Jason Dempsey about why, after years of U.S. military training and billions of dollars, the Afghan military has proven unable to stand up to the Taliban.