カテゴリー: Taliban
Women recruited as brides for terrorist fighters give rare insight into international network that bombed airportIn 2017, a group of senior Arab fighters travelled from Syria to Afghanistan, to cement the links between Islamic State cells in the two ar…
‘I’m in hiding, not only me but other colleagues. There’s still some gunfire at night-time. We are living in horror. I’m running out of cash with my family’Mahmood* is an Afghan interpreter who worked for New Zealand forces during their deployment in A…
The 21st Kabul Lancers has worked unofficially to organise safe routes out for Australia-trained soldiers, interpreters and journalistsAs the city of Kabul fell, Lina hid in her home with five children, gripped by fear.Taliban fighters were moving thro…
Afghan resistance fighters clashed with the Taliban in the Panjshir valley, the final province holding out against hardline Islamist control. Celebratory gunfire rang out across Kabul late on Friday as rumours spread that the valley had fallen. The Tal…
Rebels say they are holding on despite celebratory gunfire in Kabul amid reports that hardliners have wiped out last pocket of resistanceMilitia forces say they are enduring “heavy assaults” as they battle the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, …
There are signs of a return to something worryingly close to the hardline restrictions of the past across Afghan lifeWhen Taliban fighters moved into Herat city in western Afghanistan last month, one thing mattered more to some of them than the battle …
Beijing also reportedly aiming to increase humanitarian assistance, as Taliban prepares to unveil new cabinetChina has promised to keep its embassy in Kabul open and “beef up” relations, the Taliban have said, as Afghanistan’s new rulers worked on prep…
Security contractors among hundreds from the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stuck without clear plans for evacuationWhen Taliban fighters started to kick at the door of a UN compound in a northern province 250 miles (400km) from the Afghan ca…
While individual countries try to do what they can for those caught up in the mayhem, international pressure is lackingWhen Beheshta Arghand questioned a Taliban spokesman live on Afghan television two weeks ago, the very fact that he was prepared to a…
Both sides claim they inflicted casualties in skirmishes in the last province to resist Taliban takeoverTaliban expected to announce new governmentTaliban forces and fighters loyal to local leader Ahmad Massoud battled in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley…
Labour calls for an end to ‘unseemly infighting at the top of government’ after response to defence secretaryDominic Raab has hit back at his cabinet colleague Ben Wallace’s assertion that he knew the “game was up” in Afghanistan by July, escalating th…
Foreign minister says UK must engage with Taliban in Afghanistan after meeting with Qatari officialsEvacuations may be able to resume from Kabul airport “in the near future”, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he expressed a need for dire…
Those on board the cramped military plane weren’t granted a last glimpse of their homeland before the difficult journey ahead, while all knew thousands still waited desperately belowThe American marine shouted “push!”. And hundreds of people did, shovi…
As the group prepares to announce a government, it may have to count on its former foes to finance its futureThe Taliban took Afghanistan in a lightning advance through its capitals, exposing the weakness of the Kabul government and humbling the US and…