By Frud Bezhan RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 14, 2021 KABUL — The road to Kabul’s international airport is clogged with thousands of people who are rushing to leave the country. Thousands of others stand in long queues, stretching for kilometers, outside the capital’s only passport office, desperately trying to secure travel documents. Others frantically rush around
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 14, 2021 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has vowed not to give up the “achievements” of the last 20 years as the Taliban attacked a major northern city and were reported making advances elsewhere. Ghani’s first public appearance on August 14 came as the Taliban launched an assault on Mazar-e Sharif and
Press TV August 13, 2021 The US embassy in Afghanistan’s capital has directed its staff to destroy sensitive documents and computers as well as other material that could be used against the United States, according to American media outlets. The directive was given in a memo written for staff at the US embassy in Kabul
Reuters: In early July, as Taliban insurgents were seizing territory from government forces across Afghanistan, fighters from the group walked into the offices of Azizi Bank in the southern city of Kandahar and ordered nine women working there to leave. The gunmen escorted them to their homes and told them not to return to their
With Taliban’s rapid advance, many women in Afghanistan are fleeing their homes, fearing murder, rape and forced marriage. pic.twitter.com/p4uSMiLIXy — DW News (@dwnews) August 13, 2021
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 13, 2021 Iran is calling on the Taliban to ensure the safety of its diplomats and staff at its consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat, as Western embassies and aid groups are evacuating staff from Afghanistan. The Taliban has seized Kandahar; the country’s second-biggest city, Herat; and a
Press TV August 13, 2021 Republican members of the US Congress have slammed President Joe Biden over withdrawing troops from Afghanistan after Taliban militants have seized the country’s second-and third-biggest cities as resistance from American-trained government forces crumbled. The US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 and removed the Taliban from power. American forces occupied
Jamie Dettmer VOA News August 13, 2021 British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace warned Friday that Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state and predicted a-Qaida will again thrive in the country. “I’m absolutely worried that failed states are breeding grounds for those types of people,” he told British broadcaster Sky News. Hours earlier Wallace announced Britain
Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 13, 2021 The Taliban’s capture of two crucial cities in Afghanistan — Kandahar and Herat — marks a major turning point in the 20-year war between the internationally backed Afghan government and the Taliban insurgency, observers say. Kandahar, the nation’s second-largest city, is the economic hub of southern
Ariana: Taliban insurgents have seized most of Herat, Afghanistan‘s third-largest city, and also captured Ismail Khan, the veteran local commander leading militia resistance there, local officials said on Friday. The fall of Herat, the latest in a series of major provincial cities to be taken by the Taliban in the past few days, has dealt