カテゴリー: Taliban
Insurgents have captured key border crossings and encircled several provincial capitalsAfghan authorities have imposed a night-time curfew across 31 of the country’s 34 provinces to curb surging violence unleashed by a sweeping Taliban offensive in rec…
Stuart McCarthy accuses Coalition of abandoning Afghans who worked with ADF, saying dozens have already been killed by TalibanA retired army major who served in Afghanistan has burnt his service medal in disgust, saying dozens of civilians who worked w…
General Sir Nick Carter has been arranging meetings with contacts in Kabul and Pakistan to try to prevent a descent into civil warBritain’s top general, Sir Nick Carter, has been using his personal connections with Afghan and Pakistan leaders in a behi…
Silsila Alikhil, 26, was badly beaten and held for over five hours in Islamabad, according to diplomatic sourcesThe daughter of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan was abducted in the middle of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, held for several hour…
Some pay smugglers to take them to Istanbul as withdrawal of US troops rekindles fears of civil warTwenty-eight days into their journey out of Afghanistan, a woman and her five children are sitting in the shade near a bus station in Tatvan, a town on t…
Rapid Taliban advances lead to meeting in Uzbekistan of over a dozen leaders and foreign ministersAfghanistan’s neighbours are stepping up efforts to prevent the country sliding into a full-blown civil war after a rapid Taliban advance that caught the …
Militants say they have made what could be their most significant advance in a nationwide offensiveTaliban fighters said on Wednesday that they had taken control of one of Afghanistan’s main border crossings with Pakistan, perhaps their most strategic …
Former US president says west’s withdrawal is a mistake and could cause ‘unspeakable harm’The former US president George W Bush has criticised the western withdrawal from Afghanistan in an interview with a German broadcaster, saying he fears Afghan wom…
Family of 16 had hoped to claim asylum in Russia, as thousands flee Afghanistan after troops withdrawalSixteen members of an Afghan family who fled Taliban death threats have been trapped in Istanbul airport for the past two weeks, and thousands more r…
The US and British withdrawal has set off panic, but the truth is they were exacerbating the problem they were trying to solveFriends keep asking me to sign petitions urging President Biden to change his mind about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. …
Militants capture Islam Qala on border with Iran amid sweeping offensive launched as US withdrawsThe Taliban have claimed to be in control of 85% of Afghanistan, including a key border crossing with Iran, following a sweeping offensive launched as US t…
Iranian foreign minister meets Taliban negotiators in Tehran, while Turkey offers troops to protect Kabul airportIran, Turkey, Pakistan and Russia have moved to fill the military and diplomatic vacuum opening up in Afghanistan as a result of the depart…
Lashkar Gah still under control of government forces but local activist says city is under siegeAs Boris Johnson announced the end of Britain’s military mission in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters pressed in on the capital of Helmand province, once the ce…
PM says he is ‘apprehensive’ and situation is ‘fraught with risks’ as Taliban make advancesBoris Johnson has admitted he is “apprehensive” about the future of Afghanistan as he confirmed that the UK government would mark the end of a 20-year deployment…
Women in north and central regions of country stage demonstrations as militants make sweeping gains nationwide Women have taken up guns in northern and central Afghanistan, marching in the streets in their hundreds and sharing pictures of themselves wi…