カテゴリー: Taliban
Ahmad Massoud issues warning as militant group seeks to assert control around Kabul airportOne of the main figures still leading Afghan opposition to the Taliban’s takeover of the country, Ahmad Massoud, has warned that a new civil war is inevitable wi…
Misogyny continued to run through society behind the ‘new Afghanistan’ facadeI am thinking about Farkhunda. You may have read about her six years ago and felt outrage at the Afghan men who killed her. All that represents Farkhunda now is a forlorn clen…
As regime talks of tolerance, reports emerge of beatings, house searches and attacks on women The first time the Taliban took Kabul, 25 years ago they tortured and killed former President Mohammad Najibullah, dragged his body behind a truck through the…
Critics warn that the base is ‘not safe’ because of concerns for migrant children held there after crossing the Mexico borderThere was bipartisan support in Texas this weekend for housing Afghan evacuees at the million-acre Fort Bliss military base, in…
As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK’s ‘complacent’ responseAfghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless …
Former prime minister says jihadist groups will be ‘cheering’ return of the TalibanTony Blair has warned that the return of the Taliban will see “every jihadist group round the world cheering”, as he said that there was now a moral obligation for Weste…
Thousands still trying to flee a week after Taliban takeover as president is briefed on operations in Afghanistan‘Trapped in hell’: airport chaos casts doubt on safe evacuationAfter the US advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to Kabul ai…
Abdul Ghani Baradar will meet with ‘legal, religious and foreign policy experts’ and notorious militantsAbdul Ghani Baradar, one of the Taliban’s top leaders, arrived in Kabul on Saturday as senior figures began talks on how they will govern Afghanista…
There is no coherent system, and those who do make it to the airport face days stuck waiting to board flightsIn a voice quivering with fear and exhaustion, Sara pleaded down the phone: “Please, get us out of here. The situation is very bad, we are trap…
The old system in Afghanistan has been overthrown, and now there is fear for what the future will bringI was on my way to the mountains of Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan when, on 8 August, the Taliban accelerated their offensive that would, a mere wee…
Renewed safe haven means al-Qaida and others will have space, infrastructure, fighters and arms to plot a comebackLydia Khalil is an expert in international terrorism at the Lowy InstituteFollowing the withdrawal of US troops, the Taliban’s swift and s…
Analysis: deep fault lines, especially with Isis, may counter Afghanistan’s propaganda advantage for jihadistsFew doubt that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan will give violent Islamist extremists across the world an historic boost, encouraging them i…
Tens of thousands of foreigners and Afghans who collaborated with US and Nato forces remain stranded in Kabul, as governments grappled with an overwhelming backlog of visas and Taliban checkpoints that were preventing people safely reaching the airport…
How the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan precipitated a political one at the heart of UK governmentOn Thursday last week, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, had tried to sound composed as he announced a small number of British troops were heading ou…
Fighters tortured Hazara men to death, say witnesses, and relative of journalist killedEvidence of Taliban killings, detentions and intimidation is emerging across Afghanistan, ominously contradicting the hardline Islamist group’s promise earlier this …