Taliban Co-Founder Returns To Afghanistan Amid U.S. Evacuation

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Taliban's hold on Afghanistan was further cemented on Tuesday as the group's co-founder and de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, returned to the country for the first time in more than a decade, The Washington Post reported.

Ghani Baradar returned to Kandahar, the southern Afghanistan city where the Taliban was founded decades ago, just days after the group seized control of much of the country.

Meanwhile, the United States and other Western nations were continuing military evacuation efforts for allied Afghans and other civilians.

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