The Taliban's rapid advance across Afghanistan has left ever shrinking islands of government control dotted around the center and east of the country ... Journal real-time map of control, the ...

As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the color-coded map shows the Taliban controlling much of that country ... big cities and a large central area near Kabul, though not even all of that.

The UN has urged Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries to keep their borders ... already live in Iran and it estimates there are around 780,000 undocumented ones. Tajikistan has said it is ...