Former US national security adviser H.R. McMaster has said that the war in Afghanistan “ended in self-defeat” for the United States .

A loud blast is heard in the Afghan capital Kabul, witnesses say was caused by missile attack.

CNN aired an interview with the Daesh commander two weeks before Thursday’s Kabul bombing, raising questions on social media.

The Taliban say the group and US forces are aiming for a swift handover of the Kabul airport to the militants.

Civilians were allegedly shot and killed by US forces during the Kabul airport bombing, a report says.

A US Marine lieutenant colonel who posted a video demanding accountability from the military’s top brass over the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been sacked and will leave the elite US military corps.

American President Joe Biden vows to stage more attacks on the Afghan soil, despite the Taliban’s condemnation of an earlier such strike, which came amid Washington’s supposed commitment to full withdrawal.

The US military has destroyed the final CIA base in Kabul.

The Pentagon has said that the US military strike killed two "high-profile" Daesh targets and injured another, describing the two targets as "planners and facilitators."

Britain says its civilian evacuation efforts have come to an end in Afghanistan.