Afghanistan Politics and government 2001-2021 (Geographic Name)

CNN.com/World, Jan. 9, 2002 (The Post-Taliban government of Afghanistan: "The road to a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan was paved Dec. 5, 2001, when delegates at the UN-sponsored talks signed a landmark accord to set up a provisional administration ... The interim administration is to govern for six months, starting Dec. 22.")

Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans left, 2023: p. 3 (... the Americans had declared their desire to leave the country [Afghanistan] by September 2021) p. 15 (the Taliban faced on taking over the reins of power on August 15, 2021, was how to transition from an insurgent group to a political group running a government) (DLC)2023931509

CIA world fact book online, May 17, 2023: Afghanistan (A UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. In December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan and was reelected in August 2009. The Taliban conducted an insurgency for two decades against the Afghan Government and international forces from the United States and other countries. In February 2020, the US and the Taliban signed an agreement that led to the withdrawal from Afghanistan of international forces in exchange for commitments on counterterrorism and other assurances. The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021.)

Taliban announces new government in Afghanistan, article dated Sept. 7, 2021, on Al Jazeera WWW site, May 17, 2023: (The Taliban has appointed Mohammad Hasan Akhund, a close aide to the group's late founder Mullah Omar, as head of Afghanistan's new caretaker government, weeks after it took control of the country in a rapid offensive.)

Jamal, A. S. and Maley, W. The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan, 2023.