Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Leaves Country As Taliban Forces Enter Kabul
The president of the U.S.-backed Afghan government reportedly went to neighboring Tajikistan as the insurgency's forces swept into the capital Sunday.
Updated August 15, 2021 at 10:29 AM ET
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Taliban has left Afghanistan, just hours after the insurgency's forces surrounded the nation's capital city of Kabul Sunday — all but ensuring the collapse of the national government and a return to rule by the insurgent group for the first time in two decades.
Ghani and his immediate team have left
