The UN calls for more than 600 million dollars in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan while raising the alarm about the collapse of basic services in the war-ravaged country.

The Taliban have been warned that clashes between the group and resistance militia fighters in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, north of the capital Kabul, might spread across other parts of the country.

As the US loses its airfields near Afghanistan, the US Navy is expected to provide launching ground for drones and manned aircraft to conduct airstrikes from the sea.

The US military says it has carried out a drone strike against a Daesh “planner” in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.

The US public is overwhelmingly in favor of ending the war in Afghanistan, but a majority of Americans say they disapprove of the way President Biden is handling the troop withdrawal.

Kandahar Airfield comes under rocket attack as the United States formally begins withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.