Afghanistan
The Mula 'Abd al-'Ani Brader, No. 2 in the Taliban, recently entered the presidential palace in Kabul, with American approval and mediation by Qatar, as part of negotiations on an orderly transfer of power to the Taliban.
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Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani fled from the Taliban ‘in four cars and a helicopter filled with cash and had to leave some behind because it wouldn’t all fit in’, Russians claim