Dear readers,
Less than a week ago, we never imagined the Taliban seizing Kabul before the end of the month.
Yesterday, on this Sunday of the Assumption, the armed Islamist group entered the capital, took over the presidential palace, taking de facto control of the country.
The president fled, the Kabulians who could too, the embassies were emptied.
Now the country is holding its breath, the inhabitants are holed up in their homes, preparing as best they can for the return of the terrible Taliban law that twenty years of foreign presence had managed to keep at bay.
Have a nice day and happy birthday at Les Armels!
Louise Darbon
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Kabul in the hands of the Taliban
Twenty years after being driven out by the American intervention, the Islamist militiamen took over the Afghan capital.
- / AFP
Their meteoric advance over the past ten days presaged their victory, but the capture of Kabul by the Taliban is still impressive.
Without any real clashes, the troops of the Islamist armed group first took the suburbs before entering the city.
The announcement of the withdrawal of American troops ago
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