Afghanistan – Sep. 9th – Live Updates: Can the Taliban’s Interim Government Win the Support It Needs?

[UPDATE – Sep 9, 08:45Z] – Who to blame for Taliban takeover? Former Afghan envoy points finger at Kabul Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan’s first female ambassador to the U.S. who left her post in July, accused the former U.S.-backed government in Kabul of a failure to lead the country and of widespread corruption that paved the way for the Taliban’s victory First international flights to take off from Kabul airport since the Islamist militia seized the capital Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday…