カテゴリー: Taliban
The extremist group said the white Toyota, which belonged to Mullah Mohammad Omar, should be displayed The Taliban have dug up a white Toyota used by their founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, to escape into hiding in southern Afghanistan after the U…
Shah Muhammad Rais survived decades of misrule in Afghanistan but finally fled to escape the TalibanHe was made famous by international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, and survived a succession of repressive regimes in Afghanistan. But two decades …
A British orchestra will this week play, for the first time, a programme of Afghan music, featuring exiled Afghan musicians on traditional instrumentsThe musicians of Afghanistan have again been silenced by the Taliban. Other than specific religious an…
Haibatullah Akhundzada gives rare public speech at all-male gathering in which he effectively rules out inclusive governmentThe Taliban’s reclusive emir has lashed out at foreign demands on his government, as the UN rights chief called for an end to “s…
UK government accused of leaving former employees and their families ‘in limbo’ in Afghanistan, where they are targets for the TalibanMore than 170 people who worked for the British embassy in Kabul remain in hiding in Afghanistan in fear for their liv…
While the Taliban and aid agencies rushed to respond, locals were already on their way bringing much-needed supportSoon after the 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Wednesday, Taliban officials and aid agencies …
Aid organisations complain the group in the past has tried to divert aid to supporters of their insurgencyAfghanistan’s Taliban rulers have pledged not to interfere with international efforts to distribute aid to tens of thousands of people affected by…
5.9-magnitude earthquake leaves children buried under rubble and villages destroyed in already impoverished countrySitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. “They screamed for hel…
First shipments of international aid arrive in country as officials say death toll has risen to 1,150There are growing fears for the health and wellbeing of survivors of Wednesday’s earthquake in Afghanistan, as the death toll rose to 1,150 and the fir…
Analysis: humanitarian appeals for Taliban-ruled country have had poor responses and there are sanctions complicationsAs Afghanistan reels from a powerful earthquake and starts to bury its more than 1,000 dead, the Taliban leadership in Kabul have appe…
Foreign Office diplomats secured their freedom but sources say nothing was given in return except an apologyFive British nationals held by the Taliban since last December including the former BBC cameraman and Afghanistan expert Peter Jouvenal were rel…
Campaigners say curtailing of women’s rights in Afghanistan means Trump-era waiver must be removedHuman rights groups are urging the UN to end a Trump-era waiver that allows Taliban members most responsible for the oppression of women in Afghanistan to…
At least two people killed and seven wounded, officials say after attack in capital claimed by Islamic StateGunmen have stormed a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital, killing at least two people and wounding seven more, officials say.The interior ministr…
Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungryThe shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has flown to Kabul to see at first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban ta…
Intelligence report raises fears country could again become base for international terroristsAl-Qaida has a haven in Afghanistan under the Taliban and “increased freedom of action” with the potential of launching new long-distance attacks in coming yea…