カテゴリー: Taliban
While the Taliban’s opponents go back into exile, its footsoldiers celebrate victory over US 20 years onIn Afghanistan 9/11 is remembered as a trigger for decades of war which this year have come full, grim circle. The Taliban who controlled the countr…
The most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan’s unfolding trauma, I’ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban …
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The UN’s rights spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, received reports of house-to-house searches for Afghan demonstrators during the Taliban’s violent crackdown on protests against their rule that has already led to four documented deaths.The UN has said T…
Some Afghan families were all but wiped out by massacres and airstrikes, provoking survivors to take up arms against the westThe men of Zangabad village, Panjwai district lined up on the eve of 11 September to count and remember their dead, the dozens …
Human rights official says group conducting house-to-house searches and threatening journalistsThe Taliban’s violent crackdown on protests against their hardline rule has already led to four documented deaths, according to a UN human rights official wh…
Ken McCallum says his agency has helped stop six ‘late-stage’ terrorist attacks during pandemicMI5’s chief said the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan had given Islamist extremists “a psychological boost” in an interview where he also said the spy agen…
With at least four women, including a pregnant mother, targeted and killed by Taliban fighters, female ex-officers feel abandoned by the worldNegar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban…
We should have engaged with the Taliban 20 years ago, but we thought the winner takes all. It undermined our own armed forcesJonathan Powell was Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007The fall of Kabul 20 years after 9/11 represents not just the …
Antony Blinken thanks Qatar and Taliban for facilitating flight that he says shows US commitment to help citizens and others who assisted USA flight carrying more than 100 international passengers out of Kabul has landed in Doha, the first such civilia…
Two reporters from Kabul have said they were beaten for about 10 minutes by at least six men then locked in a cell, after reporting on protests in Panjshir valley. An acting Taliban minister, who declined to be identified, said attacks on journali…
Study suggests a worst-case scenario where 97% of Afghans would sink below poverty line by 2022Afghanistan’s population of 38 million people risks being plunged into near-universal poverty faced with a “catastrophic deterioration” of the country’s heav…
As images circulate of the brutal flogging of two reporters, a senior Afghan journalist declares ‘press freedom has ended’A spate of violent attacks on Afghan journalists by the Taliban is prompting growing alarm over the freedom of the country’s media…
Departures will be among first international flights to take off from Kabul airport since end of US-led evacuationTwo hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan were expected to depart the country on charter flights from Kabul on …
New Taliban interim government has loyalist hardliners in all key posts and no womenAfghan women, including the country’s national women’s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the…