Copyright: European Pressphoto Agency
The Taliban took control of Kabul on 15 August after 20 years of war.
It came after foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan following a deal between the US and the Taliban, two decades after US forces removed the militants from power in 2001.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
Back in 2001, the US was responding to the 9/11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people were killed. Officials identified Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, and its leader Osama Bin Laden, as responsible.
Bin Laden was in Afghanistan, under the protection of the Taliban, the Islamists who had been in power since 1996.
When they refused to hand him over, the US intervened militarily, quickly removing the Taliban and vowing to support democracy and eliminate the terrorist threat.
In 2014, at the end of what was the bloodiest year since 2001, Nato's international forces ended their combat mission, leaving responsibility for security to the Afghan army.
That gave the Taliban momentum and they seized more territory.
Peace talks between the US and the Taliban started tentatively, with the Afghan government pretty much uninvolved, and the agreement on a withdrawal came in February 2020 in Qatar.
In April 2021, the new US President Joe Biden announced that all US troops would leave Afghanistan by 11 September 2021.
In fact, the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan, Major General Chris Donahue, left on 30 August.
The last British soldiers had left a day earlier. A total of 457 died during the conflict.
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2021-09-01 12:13:14Z
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