カテゴリー: Taliban
Josep Borrell tells MEPs that EU can only influence future developments by engaging with new Afghan regimeThe EU has no choice but to engage with the Taliban government in Afghanistan and will maintain a diplomatic presence in Kabul, the union’s foreig…
Talib Mawlawi, who spent years fighting the British, urges western nations to recognise Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate leadersHelmand’s new Taliban governor, who spent years as a commander fighting the British in Sangin, welcomes visitors with an …
One incident caught on video appears to be killing of man in uniformThe Taliban have been accused of killing 20 civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir valley, with the apparent killing of a man in uniform being caught on video.The Panjshir valley was the …
Group’s leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, and one of their most recognisable faces, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, have not been seenTwo senior Taliban leaders have gone missing from public view, leading some Afghans to question whether the group’s s…
Gulf states are having to reconsider their alliances and especially whether they can still trust the US, says senior sourceThe Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is a shattering earthquake that will shape the Middle East for many years, a senior Gulf of…
Dfat timeline shows Marise Payne received formal advice to shutter embassy five days before meeting with then-president Ashraf GhaniGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingDefence and intelligence chiefs warned the Australian government mu…
Written assurances also say aid agencies will be able to operate independently of government and will be free to employ womenThe Taliban have given the UN written assurances on the safe passage and freedom of movement for humanitarian workers operating…
As a girl in the 1990s, I struggled for an education in underground schools. Afghans face a return to those dark timesWith my phone in hand, I walked up and down the fifth floor of New Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. It was mid-Augu…
New Delhi faces problem of greater Pakistani influence on Afghanistan and implications for Kashmir insurgencyAs the Taliban last week announced the cabinet set to now govern Afghanistan, 600 miles away in Delhi, the mood was sombre. Of the 33 men who w…
Islamic dress code will be compulsory as new regime enforces gender segregation in AfghanistanThe Taliban have announced that women in Afghanistan will only be allowed to study at university in gender-segregated classrooms and Islamic dress will be com…
The Taliban claim to have changed, but the crackdown has begun for women across the countryIn two months, Parwana estimates she has crossed the threshold of her home perhaps four times. She used to leave early in the morning, for work that supported he…
The Islamists haven’t mended their ways but the population they wish to subjugate won’t submit without a struggleThe fall of Kabul in November 2001 was celebrated by rightwing British newspapers and commentators as something akin to Victorian imperial …
Ceremony marks formal beginning of Taliban rule in Afghanistan following chaotic US withdrawalThe Taliban raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as news emerged that the regime’s fighters had …
Former Royal marine says campaign to get workers and animals from the Nowzad shelter out of the country ‘complete success’Former Royal marine Pen Farthing has said he is “so bloody happy” that his staff who worked at an animal shelter have made it out…
Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in AustraliaOn an August morning, Mohammad Zaman Khadimi walked out of class and into a world entirely changed.“I heard the news that the Taliban were c…