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The Taliban have declared tomorrow a public holiday in Afghanistan to mark one year since they seized Kabul amid a chaotic withdrawal of US and allied forces, DPA reported.

"August 15 marks the first anniversary of the victory in the jihad of the Afghans, led by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, against the occupation forces of America and its allies," the Labor Department said in a statement.

Taliban fighters entered Kabul without a fight last year, then gradually resumed elements of their strict rule.

The security forces of Afghanistan's former government disbanded, and the Afghan president fled the country.

Tens of thousands of Afghans have flocked to Kabul's international airport in an attempt to flee their homeland.

Afghanistan's economic crisis and splits among the Taliban threaten them a year after returning to power

Since then, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings of former government officials, Islamic State attacks on religious minorities and economic hardship have become a daily occurrence in Afghanistan, DPA noted.

Recently, US President Joe Biden announced that the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been killed in an American airstrike in Kabul.

The Taliban condemned the attack and said they did not know that Zawahiri was in Kabul.

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