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Afghanistan: Street Fighting Rages as TALIBAN Attack 3 Major Key Cities

Ferocious fighting is taking place in a major Afghan city, amid fears it could be the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban.

BBC News, 3 AUG 2021.






Afghan government forces are battling the Taliban in three key cities



Fighting is raging around three major cities in the south and west of Afghanistan, as Taliban militants seek to seize them from government forces.

Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar saw continued clashes on Sunday. The Taliban have made rapid rural gains since it was announced almost all foreign troops would leave by September.

The fundamentalist Islamist militia is already thought to have captured up to half of all Afghanistan's territory, including lucrative border crossings with Iran and Pakistan, but it has yet to take a provincial capital.

Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand province is under heavy assault from the militants, despite persistent US and Afghan air strikes.

The Taliban are said to have seized a TV station. Thousands of people fleeing rural areas took shelter in buildings.

"There is fighting all around," a doctor told the BBC from his hospital.

Hundreds of Afghan reinforcements have been deployed to battle the militants. The Taliban have made rapid advances in recent months as US forces have withdrawn after 20 years of military operations in the country.

Helmand was the centrepiece of the US and British military campaign, and Taliban gains there would be a blow for the Afghan government.

If Lashkar Gah fell, it would be the first provincial capital won by the Taliban since 2016. It is one of three provincial capitals under attack.

An Afghan military commander in the city warned that a Taliban victory would have a "devastating effect on global security".

"This is not a war of Afghanistan, this is a war between liberty and totalitarianism," Maj Gen Sami Sadaat told the BBC.

On Monday, the Afghan information ministry announced that 11 radio and four television networks in Helmand province had stopped broadcasting due to what it described as Taliban "attacks and threats".

Attempts by the militants to capture Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, have continued after rocket strikes hit its airport on Sunday.

Seizing control of Kandahar would be a hugely symbolic victory for the Taliban, giving them a grip on the south of the country.

In a third besieged city, Herat, in the west, government commandos are battling the insurgents after days of fierce fighting. Government forces have taken back some areas after a UN compound was attacked on Friday.

Videos shared on social media appeared to show residents on the streets and rooftops of Herat shouting

"Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") in support of the government's gains.








As government forces struggled to contain Taliban advances, President Ashraf Ghani blamed the sudden withdrawal of US troops for the increase in fighting.

"The reason for our current situation is that the decision was taken abruptly," he told parliament.

Mr Ghani said he had warned Washington that the withdrawal would have "consequences".

Although nearly all its military forces have left, the US has continued its air offensive in support of government troops. Strikes targeting Lashkar Gah continued late on Monday.

President Biden's administration announced on Monday that because of the increase in violence, it would take in thousands more Afghan refugees who worked with US forces.


The US and UK have accused the Taliban of committing possible war crimes by "massacring civilians" in a town captured near the Pakistan border.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had seen reports of "deeply disturbing and totally unacceptable" Taliban atrocities.

Gruesome videos that emerged from Spin Boldak apparently showed revenge killings.

The TALIBAN have rejected the accusations.


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Taliban Capture Kandahar, Afghanistans' Second Largest City

The Taliban have captured Afghanistans second largest city, Kandahar, in what is a crushing blow for the government and a major win for the militants.

UK Paratroopers & Canadian Special Forces Will Deploy to Afghanistan
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Around 4,000 Britons are thought to be in the country.

BBC News, 13 AUG 2021.





Thousands of people have fled to Kabul to escape street fighting and are living in makeshift camps





A Taliban militant patrols outside the Governor's house in Ghazni city after taking control of the area



The southern city was once the Taliban's stronghold, and is strategically important as a trade hub.

The insurgents also seized the nearby city of Lashkar Gah and now control about a third of Afghanistan's provincial capitals.

Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the Taliban advance.

Many have travelled to the capital Kabul to seek safety and are sleeping on the streets there.

"We have no money to buy bread, or get some medicine for my child," a 35-year-old street vendor who fled northern Kunduz province after the Taliban set fire to his home told the BBC.

More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in the past month, according to the UN.

There are increasing concerns that the militants will continue their rapid offensive toward Kabul.

People are in disbelief over their rapid gains, the BBC Yogita Limaye in Kabul reports, with the silence from the country's top leadership leading to rumours and speculation about what could lie ahead for the capital.

The insurgent advance comes as US and other foreign troops withdraw after 20 years of military operations.

The UK is deploying 600 troops to support British nationals leaving the country. Staff at the British embassy have been reduced to a core team.

The US is to send nearly 3,000 troops to Kabul airport to evacuate a "significant" number of embassy staff on special flights.

Why is Kandahar so Important?

Kandahar is the Taliban's birthplace, and so taking control of the city of 600,000 people is a significant prize for the militants.

They had occupied the city's outskirts for a number of weeks before launching their attack on the centre.

On Wednesday, the Taliban breached Kandahar's central prison, and on Thursday, images on social media reportedly showed insurgents in the city centre.

A resident told the AFP news agency that government forces appeared to have withdrawn en masse to a military facility outside Kandahar.

Kandahar is considered strategically important because of its international airport, its agricultural and industrial output and its position as one of the country's main trading hubs.

Ghazni, captured on Thursday, is also a significant gain for the Taliban as it is on the Kabul-Kandahar motorway, linking militant strongholds in the south to Kabul.

Meanwhile Herat, an ancient silk road city, had been under siege for weeks before security forces on Thursday retreated to army barracks. Video on social media shows the insurgents running through a central street firing their weapons, and the Taliban flag was seen flying over the police headquarters.

The US embassy in Kabul said it was hearing reports that the Taliban were executing Afghan troops who were surrendering, saying it was "deeply disturbing and could constitute war crimes".

An estimated 72,000 children are among those fleeing to the capital in recent days and are mostly sleeping on the streets, according to Save the Children.

Makeshift camps have been established on scrubland on the outskirts of the capital, while many others have reportedly been sleeping on the streets or in abandoned warehouses.







In response to the insurgency, the German government has threatened to end its annual financial support of $500m (£360m) to Afghanistan if the Taliban gains complete control of the country.

Germany has also suspended the forced repatriation of Afghan citizens whose asylum applications have failed. The French and Danish governments say they will also following the same policy.

What is the Afghan government doing?

The Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, has so far failed to unite a host of fractured Afghan militias against the Taliban.

On Wednesday, he flew to the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif - traditionally an anti-Taliban bastion - to rally government forces.

He also held crisis talks with ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum and prominent ethnic Tajik leader Atta Mohammad Noor about defending the city.

For years, Mr Ghani tried to sideline the warlords in an attempt to boost the Afghan National Army, and now he is turning to them in his hour of need, the BBC's Ethirajan Anbarasan says. Earlier this week, the president also agreed to arm pro-government militia.



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Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban as the U.S. Pulls Out, Capping 20-Year Failure

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The Guardian UK, 16 AUG 2021.











The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, occupying the capital Kabul after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

Taliban forces occupied the Presidential Palace, from where they are preparing to announce that they are the new rulers of an “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”.

It’s the culmination of a lightning takeover by the Islamist fighters, following the decision by the United States and other coalition nations to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan.

Coalition troops first entered the country in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks and removed the Taliban from power. 20 years of fighting to support the new Afghan government cost thousands of lives.

The decision of the US President Joe Biden to finally withdraw all US forces by September paved the way for the final Taliban offensive that overwhelmed the Afghan government's forces.

Foreign nationals and many Afghans have been trying to get on flights out of Kabul airport, where US and British troops have been deployed to aid the evacuation.

Mishal Husain presents BBC News at Ten reporting by diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams, Malik Mudassir in Kabul, political correspondent Ben Wright and north America editor Jon Sopel.


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There are no women in the streets – the day life changed in Kabul...

Taliban bosses have vowed to return to restart evil punishments and the group's top spokesman said yesterday they will leave the punishments up to their "courts"


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In the Afghan capital women stayed home in fear of being beaten by the Taliban for not covering themselves


The streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rule across Afghanistan, as Taliban gunmen patrolled in cars seized by police, confiscated guns from security guards and urged shopkeepers and government employees back to work.

Chaos unfolded at the airport, where troops used guns and helicopters to clear the runways, and several people died in frantic last-minute attempts to escape by clinging to departing planes.

But in the rest of the city people who felt they had no hope of fleeing abroad were weighing up whether they should go into hiding, or assessing the shape of their new lives under the Taliban’s hardline rule.

The change was reflected on TV, where news and soap operas from India and Turkey gave way to religious programming without advertisements, even on the leading Tolo channel which won a reputation for hosting popular shows that would be anathema to the Taliban, such as the talent competition Afghan Star.

Most businesses were shuttered, even though the Taliban had urged people to return to work and normal life, with just a few bakeries, grocery shops and restaurants open so people could feed themselves.

Fighters consolidated their hold on the city, visiting compounds to collect weapons from private security guards, and celebrating their victory by parading outside the now-abandoned US embassy.

But insurgent leaders – keen to project an image of a government-in-waiting – visited the national power company and hospitals, where they said women healthcare workers should stay in post.

They also invited the health minister Waheed Majrooh – one of the cabinet members who did not flee with President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday – to remain in his post, he said on Facebook. He appeared to have accepted, writing: “God blessed me the pride of serving in the health sector for my people and my country and I will do my best as long as I have this responsibility.”

The former president Hamid Karzai and the top peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah appeared together in a video, saying they were working for a peaceful transition.

The Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has urged people to stay and rebuild. “Our country needs them. This is their country, a country of all Afghans,” he said, adding that the Taliban had promised there was no threat to lives. “We are assuring them there are no risks to their lives, their property, their honour.”

But many were reluctant to trust promises from a group that even in recent weeks has committed reprisal killings and other atrocities, including massacring surrendering government soldiers.

Journalists in Kabul reported they had been visited by the Taliban already and had their houses searched.

“Nobody is supporting women journalists in Afghanistan. We are scared if the Taliban find us they will definitely kill us,” said one who was in hiding. “One more thing to mention – even if they let us live they will not let us go back to work, which is really a financial challenge for me as a women that lives alone.”

Women stayed at home in fear of being beaten for not covering up, or for going out without a male guardian. In several parts of Afghanistan reports of forced marriage to Taliban fighters have followed militant takeovers in recent weeks.

Families in Street


An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’



“There were no women walking on the streets, but there were women in the cars who were wearing masks and with no hair out,” said Hayat, a 24-year-old who went out to see what his city looked like under Taliban rule.

“The only positive change was that there is no traffic. But I did not feel safe and in the back of my mind, I kept thinking that they are going to shoot me now.”

Although the Taliban leadership has not laid out their new rules for Kabul residents, fighters used the loudspeakers at one mosque in the west of the city to announce that women should wear burqas or full hijab – a long abaya and a face covering – and their fighters have begun enforcement of a harsh code in other parts of the city.

One older woman who went out to get food for her family saw gunmen pushing women and sending them home for not being covered. She also saw them dragging younger women away. Most women had simply stayed home.

Many women in Kabul do not own burqas, the enveloping garment that the Taliban required women to wear in the past, and have been trying to find them.

“For me a burqa has always been a sign of slavery. You are like a bird trapped inside a cage, I had never imagined wearing that. But nowadays if I want to save my life, I think that I need to,” said Negin.

“I don’t have it, I don’t know where to buy it but many of my friends are searching for it. Women buy it because it saves lives, it removes the threats against you.”


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UK Special Forces Teams, deep undercover, on the ground in Afghanistan, are in a race against time as fears grow the Taliban will take control of Kabul airport as people try desperately to flee to country

Joe Biden issues Warning to the Taliban as he defends Afghanistan exit decision


The US President said he "stands squarely by" withdrawal of US troops. as he warned Taliban militants they faced “swift and forceful” action.

Daily Mirror, 17 AUG 2021





Terrified women and children try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul ( Image:REUTERS)






Heart-wrenching moment 640 Afghan refugees crammed into US jet with seconds to spare






The Mirror has learned an SAS team was deployed undercover deep inside Kabul on a hazardous mission to try and rescue Brits cowering from the Taliban manhunt.

It is believed the special forces operatives were joined by US operators and two Afghan interpreters who are among those hoping to escape Kabul for fear of Taliban reprisals.

The Mirror understands there are claims of summary killings by the Taliban as fighters perform door-to-door searches throughout Kabul city.

They are hunting down former officials, ex police, soldiers and anyone who worked with the former Kabul government- or with coalition forces.


By Monday evening as many as 900 British troops were protecting Kabul airport, along with 6,000 US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne.


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Taliban Commander Released From Guantanamo Bay Told Them He was Just a Shopkeeper

Taliban commander Gholam Ruhani reportedly told a review board at the Guantanamo Bay US military prison that he would help his "sick" father run a store in Kabul when he returned to Afghanistan


Daily Mirror, 18 AUG 2021.








A Taliban commander was released from Guantanamo Bay after claiming he was a shopkeeper who would return to Afghanistan to care for his poorly father, it is reported.

As the terror group seized the capital Kabul on Sunday, video showed a man identified by experts as Gholam Ruhani, surrounded by armed militants, goading the US in a victory speech inside the presidential palace.

Reports say Ruhani was held at Guantanamo, a US military prison in Cuba, as he was accused of being a security agent for the Taliban's ministry of intelligence and having close family ties to senior figures.

Ruhani told Al Jazeera he was held for seven years at Guantanamo, which has been used to hold the world's most dangerous terrorists following their capture.




Gholam Ruhani appeared during a victory speech at the presidential palace in Kabul ( Image:Al Jazeera)


US State Department records indicate Ruhani was one of the first prisoners at the facility, being held there from 2002 to 2007, and was rated a medium security threat.

Files obtained by MailOnline show that Ruhani secured his release after telling an administrative review board he was a "simple shopkeeper" who "helped Americans".

He claimed his "only wish" was to return to Afghanistan and help his "sick" father run a family appliance store in Kabul.

In March 2007, he claimed he had never heard of al-Qaeda before the September 11 terror attacks and joined the Taliban as a "survival necessity", according to the documents.

He also told officials he felt that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, who was given safe haven by the Taliban, had "brought war to Afghanistan".

Born in 1975, he was raised in Ghazni before his parents sent him to Iran to escape the Afghan-Soviet war.

When he returned in 1992 he worked at his father business and later joined the Taliban, who seized control of Afghanistan in 1996.

American officials believe he decided to join the ministry of intelligence to avoid combat operations and was part of a security detail patrolling the streets of Kabul.

He was arrested by US forces in 2001, along with his brother-in-law, Abdul Haq Wasiq, the former deputy minister of intelligence, and eventually taken to Guantanamo.

US officials described Ruhani as a "threat" to America and believed he downplayed his rank and high-level connections in the Taliban, it was reported.

One document states: "The detainee claims to be no more than a simple shopkeeper who helped Americans.

"The detainee stated that his only wish was to return to Afghanistan and assist his father, who is sick, in operating the family appliance store in Kabul."

In January 2007, a review board recommended Ruhani be transferred out of US military control.

Ruhani was repatriated along with Mullah Abdul Zakir, the New York Times reported.

Zakir, a Taliban leader, was moved to a jail in Afghanistan but was released and became a key military figure for the group.

Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan resumed early on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.

At least eight people were killed amid chaos at the airport on Sunday and Monday, as Afghans climbed on top of planes, held on to the wheels of departing flights, and scaled jet bridges to escape.

US troops fired shots to disperse crowds.

Reports said at least two people died when they plunged from the wheels of a US military jet after it took off.

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Mum Whose Eyes Were Gouged Out by The Taliban Claims Women are Fed to The Dogs

Khatera, 33, was pregnant when she was tortured by the Talibans in an attack that saw them gouge her eyes out. She says she was 'lucky' to survive and she claims women were sometimes 'fed to the dogs'


Daily Mirror, 18 AUG 2021.








A mum who was tortured by the Taliban when she was two months pregnant has said she fears for the future of women as the militant group would "feed them to the dogs".


Khatera, 33, speaking from Delhi, said she had her eyes gouged out in an attack that had been conspired by her very own dad, a former Taliban fighter.

In a heart-wrenching account of the attack, she told News18 she was shot eight times in her upper body by the Taliban in Afghanistan's Ghazni province last year.

"I was lucky I survived," she said.

She told how she had been on her way home from work when the she found herself surrounded by three Taliban fighters who, after checking her ID, started shooting her.

“They (Taliban) first torture us (women) and then discard our bodies to show as specimen of punishment," said Khatera, who also suffered deep knife injuries.

"Sometimes our bodies are fed to dogs. I was lucky that I survived it.

"One has to live in Afghanistan under the Taliban to even imagine what hell has befallen on the women, children and minorities there."

“In the eyes of Taliban, women are not living, breathing human beings, but merely some meat and flesh to be battered," she added.

But they have also signalled they want to ban women from employment and repurpose the law that women are required to be accompanied by a man.

The Taliban claim the group "does not want violence" and is looking for "a peaceful transfer of power”.

"Women were filling up universities. It was a beautiful sight to see girls going to schools. All went down the drain in just a week," Khatera said.

Khatera, who is mother to five children back at her Ghazni home, said that she was tortured "at a time when police had the power to act" and now the "Talibs will run amok."

She added: "Now my father will go after my children. Both my husband and I are not there with our children. They are at home with relatives.

"But my father will soon land there and may harm my children either physically or may induct them into the Taliban, encouraging them to take up arms and ruin their lives." END..

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Afghanistan: Taliban Tortured and Massacred Men From Hazara

Taliban carrying out door-to-door manhunt- recently "massacred" and brutally tortured several members of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan

The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government


Terrified Mums Shield Their Babies and Pass Kids Over Fence as Taliban Open Fire at Kabul Airport

Taliban Violently Block Australian Citizens From Kabul Airport Evacuation Flights

Australians report being hit with weapons and whipped by Taliban militants when they presented their documents


BBC News, 20 AUG 2021.






The Hazara people traditionally live in the mountainous central belt of Afghanistan





The warning comes despite the Taliban saying they would not carry out revenge on Afghans


The road to Kabul airport – crowded, chaotic and punctuated by regular gunfire – has proved impassable to dozens of Australian citizens and visa-holders trying to reach military evacuation flights out of Afghanistan.

On Thursday afternoon, the Australian government issued a public message to Australian citizens and visa-holders in the Afghan capital to travel to Kabul airport to board an evacuation flight out of the country that has fallen to the Taliban.

That group includes a number of former interpreters who served alongside Australian forces, and whose service – in Australian uniform – has made them particular targets for Taliban retribution.






Taliban carrying out door-to-door manhunt- recently "massacred" and brutally tortured several members of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan



Witnesses have given harrowing accounts of the killings, which took place in early July in Ghazni province.

Since taking over the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, the Taliban have tried to portray a more restrained image.

But Amnesty said the incident was a "horrifying indicator" of Taliban rule.

The Hazara community is Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group.

They mainly practise Shia Islam and have faced long-term discrimination and persecution in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In the report published on Thursday, Amnesty said the nine Hazara men were killed between 4 and 6 July in Malistan district in the eastern Ghazni province.

The rights group interviewed eyewitnesses and reviewed photographic evidence after the killings.

Villagers said they had escaped to the mountains when fighting intensified between government forces and Taliban fighters.

When some of them returned to the village of Mundarakht to collect food, they said the Taliban had looted their homes and were waiting for them. Separately, some men who passed through Mundarakht on their way home to their hamlet were also ambushed.

In total six men were allegedly shot, some in the head, and three were tortured to death.

According to witness accounts, one man was strangled with his own scarf and had his arm muscles sliced off. Another's body was shot to pieces.

One eyewitness said they asked the fighters why they inflicted such brutality on their people.

"When it is the time of conflict, everyone dies, it doesn't matter if you have guns or not. It is the time of war," a fighter allegedly said.

Amnesty's Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said: "The cold-blooded brutality of these killings is a reminder of the Taliban's past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring."

"These targeted killings are proof that ethnic and religious minorities remain at particular risk under Taliban rule in Afghanistan."

It added that mobile phone services have been cut in many of the areas that have been captured by the Taliban, and so information about the killing had not leaked out until now.

Amnesty called on the UN to investigate and protect those at risk.

The Taliban were known for their brutal rule of Afghanistan which deprived women and ethnic minorities of their rights, before they were ousted by a US-led coalition in 2001.

In a press conference following its takeover of Kabul, the militant group promised it would not launch revenge attacks on anyone who worked with US forces, and that it would also grant women rights under Islamic sharia law.

But a UN document has warned that Taliban fighters have been going door-to-door to search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government...


The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government, a UN document has warned.

It said the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threaten their family members.

The hardline Islamist group has tried to reassure Afghans since seizing power in a lightning offensive, promising there would be "no revenge".

But there are growing fears of a gap between what they say and what they do.

The warning the group were targeting "collaborators" came in a confidential document by the RHIPTO Norwegian Center for Global Analyses, which provides intelligence to the UN.

"There are a high number of individuals that are currently being targeted by the Taliban and the threat is crystal clear," Christian Nellemann, who heads the group behind the report, told the BBC.

"It is in writing that, unless they give themselves in, the Taliban will arrest and prosecute, interrogate and punish family members on behalf of those individuals."

He warned that anyone on the Taliban's blacklist was in severe danger, and that there could be mass executions.

Foreign powers are continuing efforts to get their nationals out of Afghanistan. A Nato official said on Friday that more than 18,000 people have been evacuated in the last five days from Kabul airport.

Some 6,000 more, among them former interpreters for foreign armed forces, are on standby to be flown out late on Thursday or early Friday.

The aim is to double evacuation efforts over the weekend, the official said.

Outside the airport the situation remains chaotic. The Taliban have been blocking Afghans trying to flee, with one video showing a child being handed to a US soldier.

President Joe Biden, who has come under scathing criticism over what his opponents say is a "shambolic" US withdrawal, is expected to speak on Friday about the evacuation effort.


The Taliban now control thousands of US-made armoured vehicles, 30-40 aircraft and a large number of small arms, US officials told Reuters


The Taliban captured Kabul on Sunday, having swept across the country as foreign forces withdrew.

Their victory returns the group to power 20 years on from when they were toppled in a US-led invasion.

The group's previous stint in power saw widespread abuses, including public executions and banning women from the workplace.

But in their first news conference since retaking control of Afghanistan, the group presented a conciliatory tone, promising women's rights would be respected "within the framework of Islamic law".

The Taliban have reportedly pledged not to force women to wear the burka - a one-piece veil that covers the face and body. Instead, the hijab - or a headscarf - will be compulsory.

They also said they did not want "any internal or external enemies" and that there would be an amnesty for former members of the security forces and those who worked with foreign powers.

International powers - and many Afghans - remain sceptical.

The UN chief Antonio Guterres said the only leverage the body had over the Taliban was the militant's desire for international recognition.

Asked in an interview if he thought the Taliban had changed, President Biden said no, adding the group faced an "existential" choice about whether they want to be recognised.









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Fabled Warlords' Son Warns Taliban - Son of Warlord Vows to Resist Taliban

...And perhaps live up to his warrior father, the Lion of Panjshir.


The Telegraph UK, 20 AUG 2021.









He is the son of a legendary Afghan warlord who dreams of peace and of one day becoming a physics teacher.


For now Ahmad Massoud is holed up in a remote Afghan valley, with four helicopters, a few hundred soldiers and a handful of figures from an exiled government on a mission to resist the Taliban – and perhaps live up to his warrior father, the Lion of Panjshir.



The UK-educated 32-year-old has given his first interview since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, speaking to the Telegraph and another journalist on a patchy WhatsApp call from the Panjshir Valley – a narrow corridor of land 100 miles north of Kabul leading into the Hindu Kush mountain range.

He has warned the Taliban of his plan to resist an unjust rule. It comes as the so-called Islamic State group lashed out at the Taliban, its regional foe, in a bitter editorial which baselessly claims the takeover of Afghanistan is a US-backed conspiracy.

Meanwhile, a former Royal Marine turned charity chief in Afghanistan has warned people will be "left behind" as he posted an image of his wife's near-empty evacuation flight out of Kabul.






Paul Farthing, known as "Pen", called the image "scandalous" having battled to get all 25 staff from his animal welfare charity Nowzad and their families out of the country.


A German has revealed how he fooled the Taliban into letting him and his fiancée out of the country by pretending his German political party membership card was a diplomatic passport.


Back home, a minister and former British Army officer who served in Afghanistan has said the Taliban's control makes him "sick", but that the group's involvement in the peace process was always set to be a reality.


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Chaos as Kabul Airport Closes After Fatal Crush at The Barricades

Former British ambassador to Afghanistan: 'Talk to the Taliban, talk with allies, and put this on a properly organised basis'

Former British MP Tony Blair slams Joe Biden's 'imbecilic' retreat from Afghanistan

The Telegraph UK, 22 AUG 2021.










Shocking images have shown babies passed over barded wire walls Credit: AFP





British troops save a woman during a stampede at the airport Credit: Sky News





Bodies covered in white sheets amid evacuation scramble



Kabul airport was shut down on Saturday and US citizens were urged not to head there in their attempt to flee Afghanistan, as the situation in the country degenerated further.

The US State Department announced it was closing the airport for at least 48 hours to concentrate on processing the hundreds already inside.

With the scenes outside the besieged airport growing ever more desperate, the US military had resorted to dispatching helicopters into the Afghan capital to ferry terrified evacuees unable to reach the terminal.

On Saturday afternoon it locked the airport gates, saying no more people would be allowed in until the huge backlog of refugees and fleeing nationals had been cleared.

The British military says seven Afghan civilians have been killed in the crowds near the airport.

The Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that "conditions on the ground remain extremely challenging but we are doing everything we can to manage the situation as safely and securely as possible."

In an advisory notification, the US Embassy warned its nationals: "Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising US citizens to avoid travelling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a US government representative to do so.”

The instruction was a sign of the chaos surrounding the operation to evacuate foreign nationals from the country, along with thousands of refugees desperate to flee the Taliban.

Outside the airport perimeter fence tensions grew, with families – several waving UK passports – begging British soldiers and Afghan security guards to let them onto the runway.

British squaddies were forced to scream “get back, get back” at parents and children fleeing their homes for fear of what the new Islamist regime will bring.

Among them was Khalid, a former interpreter for the British army, whose wife gave birth just two weeks ago. He fears the baby could now die amid the heat and crowds outside the airport.

“I've been here since the morning," he said, "The Taliban lashed me on the back on my way."

In the skies above a fleet of US helicopters ferried over 150 Americans who had been unable to reach the airport gates, in the first sign that US forces were willing and able to go beyond the US-secured compound to help people seeking evacuation.

Three US Chinooks had been deployed due to concerns for the Americans' safety in crossing a huge crowd that had gathered outside the airport's Abbey entry gate.

The helicopter evacuation came as it emerged that private contractors are planning to evacuate Afghan special forces commandos and their families.


'Moral obligation to our fellow Afghan Warriors'


A US group based in Alabama has been given clearance to fly privately chartered planes into Kabul to extract members of the Afghan commando anti-terrorism units, trained by SAS and US Special Forces since 2003, along with family members, in a deal brokered by Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud and the Taliban Sunni representatives at the behest of a Trump-appointed US lobbyist Richard Hohlt.

The Telegraph has learned that the flight, originating out of Istanbul, would not be permitted to return to Turkey, which has barred Afghan refugees, but would in all likelihood bring them to Bahrain or Dubai.

Ark Salus, described as a US special operations veterans-based charity, said it had chartered a Boeing 737 "to save 4,650 women and children" in an operation it has called "Wings of Eagles."

Organisers say they have raised $500,000 toward the costs of the mission to date.

"We have a moral obligation to our fellow Afghan Warriors to safeguard them, their wives and children, and rescue them from Kabul, just as they have brought us home to our families," the organisation announced on its website.

Peter Quinn, an organiser with Ark Salus and a veteran of five combat tours in Afghanistan, told The Telegraph the units have gone to ground but they're still there and still communicating. "They've shed their uniforms. They are in hiding, and waiting to know when to get to the airport."

In a reflection of tensions within the US and UK operations, the former British ambassador to Afghanistan has said the urgency with which the evacuation is being conducted is adding to the panic.




Evacuation 'will take weeks, not hours and days'

Sir Nick Kaye said: “We should release Afghans from the panic by saying this will take some time and we are committed to completing it. This is somehow being portrayed as a race against time. But who has set that time and why? I think that there should now be an acknowledgement that this is a process that will take weeks, not hours and days.”

He added: “The point of failure is access to the airport. People are panicking. Now, everybody needs to take a deep breath, stand back, get organisations involved, who know how to do these things, like the international organisation for migration, the UN body, talk to the Taliban, talk with allies and put this on a properly organised basis.”

Afghans civilians are evacuated by the US military on August 19, 2021, at an undisclosed location.

Meanwhile, German armed forces are sending two more helicopters to Kabul to rescue individual German citizens or local workers.

At Ramstein air base in south western Germany, 11 aircraft have arrived since Friday, carrying 1,550 evacuees.

Here they are taken to a processing centre, registered and tested for Covid-19, before being given shelter. A total of 2,000 people have been airlifted out of Kabul by the German military.

But Switzerland has postponed a charter flight to Uzbekistan aimed at helping the evacuation effort. Its foreign ministry said the worsening security situation has hindered access on the ground to Kabul airport.

The White House is considering activating the Civil Reserve Air Fleet and using up to 20 commercial jets from five airlines to move thousands of evacuees stranded at US bases in Qatar, Bahrain and Germany, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Back outside the airport Helmand Khan, an Uber driver from west London, who had arrived with his young children in Afghanistan a few months ago to visit relatives, was beseeching soldiers to give his family access.

Trying to get into a secure compound for refugees with his two sons he showed his UK passport to the British troops guarding it. Mr Khan said soldierrs would not let them in, even though the British embassy had told him to take his family to the airport.

“I came here this morning, 5 am. Three days I’m trying to get inside,” he told the BBC. “You've seen my British passport, these are my children.”


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We’re on Joint Patrol with The Taliban, It’s Surreal’

The Telegraph UK, 22 AUG 2021.




British soldiers arrive in Kabul - Ben Shread


British paratroopers in Afghanistan have found themselves effectively on “joint patrol” with the Taliban who killed their friends, soldiers have said.

The Telegraph has been speaking over the past week to servicemen from 16 Air Assault Brigade’s 2 Para who are on the frontline in Kabul as part of Operation Pitting, the UK’s effort to rescue British nationals and eligible Afghans.

As city by city fell to the Taliban, the soldiers were dropped in under the cover of darkness to save as many as they could.


This is the story of their week.


Friday, August 13:

Soldier A did not expect to be packing his bags to deploy for a rescue mission to Kabul. He was due to be enjoying summer leave, switching off from the military and having a break. Instead, after Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, ordered a Non-combatant Evacuation Operation to be executed on Thursday, he was back on a C-17 Globemaster to Afghanistan, a place he had fought in many times before and thought he could leave behind.

Saturday, August 14:

“It’s crazy out here,” Soldier A texted from Afghanistan. Within 2 hours of touching down at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, he had taken to the streets to rescue people. “Everyone from 2 Para landed and went straight into it, we had no choice,” he said. “It was really chaotic as Kabul was falling.” The streets were busy, the night was hot, and at times personnel were forced to dismount their military vehicles to move displaced people out of their way so that they could find those they had been sent to rescue.

The passengers, a combination of expats, dual nationals and people working with NGOs and contractors, had been instructed by the Foreign Office to report to a secure location, where they were picked up by the soldiers. “We scooped up most of the British nationals on the first day, but I believe there are a few still out there,” he said. Among them were blind, pregnant and disabled people.



British forces at Kabul airprort - Ben Shread


Sunday, August 15:

In the early hours of the morning, the evacuees were brought to the airfield. Ensuring the safe passage of the civilians to the airport was a “phenomenal” effort, which required coordination between the Royal Air Force and other agencies, including the US military, Afghan police and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Once inside, the evacuees were fed and given the chance to rest. However, the soldier said “conditions were basic, reflecting the emergency nature of the extraction”. Those who had been rescued were “relieved to be getting out”. “A friendly British face goes a long way,” Soldier A said. By nightfall, the capital had fallen to the Taliban.


Monday, August 16:

At around 11.30am, 2 Para had completed their first evacuation of around 200 British nationals from Afghanistan. Packed into a military aircraft, the evacuees travelled to the UK via another location in the Middle East. “The guys and girls here have been exceptional,” Soldier A said. “Likewise, some of the Afghans have been unbelievably brave.”

With the first evacuees safely in the air, the soldiers went on to occupy the Baron Hotel complex around 600 metres from the perimeter of the airport, working around the clock. “I’m sleeping less than an hour at a time,” Soldier A said. “I’ve completely lost track of days.”



Tuesday, August 17:

Crowds of people swelled around the airport entrance. “It’s chaos,” Soldier A explained. “People are fighting for their lives to get in and British soldiers are at the front of it.” The Taliban appeared to be making it extremely difficult for those seeking evacuation. “People are shaking with fear when they get to us because of the ordeal of getting past the Taliban to reach us,” he added.

The emotional strain of what they are seeing - men and women sobbing, pleading for their lives - takes its toll on the soldiers. “We do a job that volunteers us for some of the most extreme environments on earth,” Soldier A said. “We understand that when we sign on the dotted line, and we do what we have to do. But it doesn’t mean we always enjoy it.”


Wednesday, August 18:


It is not lost on the soldiers just how unprecedented it is to be operating in a collegiate way with the Taliban. Many on the ground fought them over the 20-year war and lost colleagues along the way. However, today, they are not being obstructive. “I’m pretty much on a joint patrol with them,” Soldier A said. “It means we stand about five feet away from them. It’s surreal.” In order to get through it he said, “I’m separating the two now”, but conceded that the entire situation was “pretty unfathomable”.

“I am a little concerned, perhaps less about the Taliban’s behaviour changing, more about people becoming desperate,” he said.


Thursday, August 19:


Flights have started to leave regularly and Soldier A is confident that the UK has developed “a really good system to transition chaos” in order to enable orderly departures. They have also picked up people from a number of other nations. If things keep going at pace he believes British troops will be out by August 31. “We are still on for the end of the month because the real question is will the Taliban accept a delay, they want us out,” he said. Asked if he believed they will evacuate everyone they were sent to recover by that deadline, he added: “We are certainly trying.”


Friday, August 20:

Since Sunday, Britain has evacuated more than 2,400 people, 599 of them UK nationals. However, frustration has been brewing on the ground as to why the mission was left so “last minute”.

“Why we didn’t do it a month ago when the rest of the UK mission withdrew is beyond me,” Solider A said. “The country was stable then. Yes, it was the plan to send us in, but it doesn’t make sense – take a load of people and their kit out of a place, to send different people and kit to the same place a month later.”

The soldiers are the ones who have the difficult job of turning desperate people away at the gates of the airport. “Without all the right documentation they just become good people we can’t take,” Soldier A said, although he insisted that despite the emotional hardship the male and female soldiers alike would carry on with their mission in the vein they had started. “They really are doing an awesome job,” he said.

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US urges Americans to avoid Kabul airport amid security concerns including Isis threats

Thousands still trying to flee a week after Taliban takeover as president is briefed on operations in Afghanistan

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The Guardian UK, 22 AUG 2021.










US Marines are seen amid chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.


After the US advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to Kabul airport on Saturday, a Pentagon spokesman said the US had “a whole panoply of security concerns” around efforts to evacuate its citizens and Afghan allies. Another official said the Islamic State group was threatening to attack Americans in Afghanistan.

Thousands are still trying to flee, a week after the Taliban took control of the country.

The White House said Joe Biden discussed the security situation and counterterrorism operations, including against Isis in Afghanistan, with his national security team.

Vice-president Kamala Harris joined the meeting by video from Singapore. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also attended, as did the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin; Gen Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser; and Avirl Haines, the national intelligence director.

Speaking anonymously, a senior US official told the Associated Press that Isis threats against Americans were forcing the military to develop new ways to get evacuees to the Kabul airport. The official said small groups of Americans and possibly other civilians would be given specific instructions, including movement to transit points where they can be gathered up by the military.

Officials declined to provide more specifics about the Isis threat but described it as significant. They said there have been no confirmed attacks yet.

At a Pentagon briefing, spokesman John Kirby said he would not “detail threat assessments with the intelligence” but said the area around the airport was “very fluid and very dynamic”.

“What I would tell you is that we continue to have regular communication with Taliban leaders … particularly those that are manning or in charge of the checkpoints around the airport, that communication and deconfliction occurs.”


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Afghanistan: PM to Press Biden to Delay Kabul Withdrawal

Boris Johnson will request more time to evacuate people during a G7 meeting on Tuesday.


Afghanistan: No Food, No Water, No Shelter and Little Hope...


BBC 23 AUG 2021.


The UK prime minister is expected to ask US President Joe Biden to keep American forces in Afghanistan beyond 31 August in order to allow evacuation flights to continue.

The waiting continues for thousands of families hoping to escape the Taliban. But the conditions outside Kabul airport are unbearable and getting worse. Amid scorching temperatures, there is little shelter for those hoping to leave, while food and water are also in short supply.





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British Special Forces in Kabul Were Told That Their Operations Were Making America Look Bad Politically.


Intelligence agencies have warned Islamic State is infiltrating the Afghan capital as the Kabul airport death toll soared to 20

Daily Mirror, 23 AUG 2021.











The Kabul airport death toll soared to 20 over the weekend after seven more died - amid a major alert Islamic State could target crowds with suicide bombers.

Intelligence agencies have warned Islamic State in the Khorasan – the regional ISIS branch – is infiltrating the capital hell-bent on ruining the west’s ceasefire Taliban deal.

Some of the dead are believed to have died from crush wounds but it is believed others were shot dead by Taliban thugs in control of Kabul.

More fear piled pressure on the race-against-time evacuation yesterday over the Islamic State alarm and increased tensions from within the coalition.

Military rescue planes are having to “corkscrew” in deep dives from high altitude into Kabul airport for fear of ISK missiles shooting one down.

When they take off they are soaring steeply in a reverse corkscrew almost vertically to gain height as quickly as possible to avoid ground fire.

The Mirror has learned SAS commanders have refused to agree to an alleged request from the US to halt their daring rescue missions deep inside Kabul.

A controversial American media report said a US officer told British special forces in Kabul that their operations were making America “look bad” politically.


The reports were backed up by a UK special forces source back in the UK who spoke to the Daily Mirror over the weekend.

It is believed Washington has put pressure on their own special forces not to venture into Kabul because of the risk of being captured by Taliban.

But the Mirror source said: “It is true that there have been robust conversations in recent days out there – but these are very professional soldiers doing an extremely difficult job.

“There has been no long-term fallout between special forces groups on the ground and they are working quite brilliantly together on the rescue mission.”

The Mirror has also learned members of 2 Para – part of 16th Air Assault Brigade - have been “snatching” entitled evacuees from under the control of the Taliban.

Daring Para “snatch squads” have whisked Afghan evacuees outside the airport back behind the safety of their lines where they can be processed for a mercy flight.

The special forces source in the UK confirmed British SAS troops in Kabul had even “groomed” Taliban fighters into easing pressure on the evacuation.

The source told the Mirror: “There is a very unlikely but practical relationship being formed by extremely adept UK special forces operators out there in leveraging the Taliban.

“This is a purely practical development in order to ensure as many British and entitled Afghans get out of the country safely and as soon as possible.”

It has also been necessary because Britain has largely been excluded from the deal over safely evacuating between America and the Taliban.

The source added: “British forces are having to use their initiative and that so far has worked very well.

“The Paras are doing a very good job, showing locals compassion and empathy, despite coming under tremendous strain from witnessing so much suffering.”

Fears a civil war is looming have added to the tension and desperate need to process evacuees as quickly as possible.

New Taliban rulers have been hit with multiple attacks, mainly from the north and launched by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.

Hundreds of fleeing Afghan National Army troops have headed north to the Panjshir valley where UK-educated leader Ahmad Massoud is leading the rebellion.

Yesterday, according to sources, the Taliban was reinforcing its fighters trying to battle the rebels as they have lost scores of fighters in just days.

In Kabul the Taliban have worsened pressure on crowds outside the airport, firing into the air and beating people with batons.

British officials yesterday confirmed as many as 4,000 evacuees have been brought back to the UK but troops may have just days to complete the mission.

Disturbing images emerged yesterday of Taliban fighters dressed from head to foot in US combat fatigues and brandishing brand new weapons, left in Afghanistan.

Much of it was taken from surrendering Afghan Army soldiers or is evidence Afghan troops have defected to the Taliban.

Another imaged mocked America’s iconic 1945 flag raising photo of US Marines raising their flag at Iwo Jima – and showed fatigues-wearing Taliban raising their flag in Afghanistan.

It comes after a week of escalating Taliban horror as Stasi-like door to searches in cities were launched, hunting down ex-official and security men or women.

Among the summary executions that have taken place were nine minority Afghan Hazara men – six executed by being shot in the head and three tortured to death.

In another horror report a woman in north east Afghanistan was set alight after the Taliban complained the food she cooked them was not good enough.

Afghan girls have been beaten in the street for not having their faces covered and there are many claims of executions taking place and people disappearing.

Amid the chaos sweeping Afghanistan it is believed the Taliban is ghosting bodies away and disposing of them in the desert- desperate to maintain the illusion of being “inclusive.”





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Afghanistan: Taliban Warns There Will be 'Consequences' if Biden Delays Withdrawal of US Troops

The Taliban issues a stark warning about the withdrawal of troops from the country.

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Kabul Airport Attack: ISIS Drone Bomb Fears as Brit Troops Take Up Defensive Positions

Joe Biden WARNS ISIS 'We Will Hunt You Down and Make You Pay' after bombings


US President Joe Biden threatened the terror culprits after US forces' deadliest day in a decade, with troops and Afghan children among the dead in the twin attacks claimed by ISIS-K

The horrific toll of the two bombs will claim many more victims throughout the night as troops brace themselves for more Islamic State assaults


UK & US to complete evacuations despite attack,


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It was a scene of carnage in Afghanistan, after twin explosions near Kabul Airport, killed at least 60 people and injured dozens more.

The first blast is thought to have been the work of a suicide bomber, passing among the crowds gathered for more than a week at one of the airport's main gates, to try to get flights out of the country.

The second was at a nearby hotel. Along with Afghan civilians, 12 US military personnel were killed

There had been warnings in recent days that an offshoot of the Islamic State group in the region was planning an attack and ISIS-K has claimed it was behind the bombings.

The Pentagon says evacuation flights will continue, despite the threat of more attacks.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lyse Doucet and Secunder Kermani in Kabul, Aleem Maqbool in Washington and security correspondent Frank Gardner.







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Pentagon Says US Drone Strike Killed ISIS-K Planner One Day After Kabul Airport Attack...


Drone strike carried out east of Kabul as Pentagon warns of further ‘specific, credible’ threats against airport

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The US has conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State target in Afghanistan on Saturday, as the airlift of those desperate to flee moved into its fraught final stages with fresh terror attack warnings and encroaching Taliban forces primed to take over the Kabul airport.

US troops overseeing the evacuation have been forced into closer security cooperation with the Taliban to prevent any repeat of a suicide bombing that killed scores of civilians crowded around one of the airport’s main access gates, and 13 American troops.

The attack was claimed by a regional chapter of the Islamic State – known as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) – and the Pentagon announced it had carried out a drone attack on a “planner” from the jihadist group in eastern Afghanistan.

“Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties,” the US military said in a statement.

US Central Command said the airstrike took place in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul and bordering Pakistan. It did not say whether the target was connected with the airport attack.

The White House said the next few days are likely to be the most dangerous as evacuations continue ahead of looming deadline for the withdrawal of US forces.

Just before details of the airstrike targeting Islamic State were made public, the US embassy in Kabul issued a fresh warning over security threats at the airport and called on US citizens at the gates to “leave immediately”.

It follows Pentagon spokesman John Kirby earlier saying the US believes there are still “specific, credible” threats against the airport.

“We certainly are prepared and would expect future attempts,” Kirby told reporters in Washington. “We’re monitoring these threats, very, very specifically, virtually in real time.”

US and allied forces are racing to complete evacuations of their citizens and vulnerable Afghans and to withdraw from the country by the Tuesday deadline set by the US president, Joe Biden, after two decades of American military presence there.

The Pentagon said the US has taken about 111,000 people out of Afghanistan in the past two weeks.

While some have been evacuated, many are still seeking to get out. Throngs of people have gathered outside the airport to try to get on to evacuation flights since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on 15 August, although on Friday, Taliban guards stopped people from approaching.

The Islamic State affiliate that claimed responsibility for Thursday’s bombing appeared in eastern Afghanistan in 2014 and later made inroads into other areas, particularly the north.

The group is an enemy of the Islamist Taliban as well as the west. The Pentagon said Thursday’s attack was carried out by one suicide bomber at an airport gate, not two as it had earlier stated.

Biden said earlier he had ordered the Pentagon to plan how to strike ISKP. A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the drone strike was against an Islamic State militant planning attacks.

A reaper drone, which took off from the Middle East, struck the militant while he was in a car with an Islamic State associate, the official said. Both are believed to have been killed, the official added.

A senior Taliban commander said some ISKP members had been arrested in connection with the Kabul attack. “They are being interrogated by our intelligence team,” the commander said.





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A US drone strike killed several Islamic State suicide bombers on their way to carry out a second attack on Kabul airport, in an apparent sign of uneasy security cooperation with the Taliban.

The strike hit a vehicle packed with explosives in a residential area of Kabul on Sunday, triggering a blast that could be heard across the city, US and Taliban officials said.

Nine civilians from one family, including six children, were killed in the strike, a witness told CNN.


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Kabul Airport Comes Under Rocket Fire as US Afghanistan Evacuation Enters Final Hours - Bidens' Problems to Get Much Worse

US vows to press on with operations after rockets fired at international airport, as Afghan official says children among victims of earlier US drone strike

Biden briefed on rocket attack at Kabul airport, says White House

The Telegraph UK, 30 AUG 2021.
















Several rockets were fired at Kabul airport on Monday, less than 48 hours before the United States is due to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Eyewitnesses said the rockets were launched from a car and were aimed towards the airport on Monday morning. It appears Salim Karwan, a neighbourhood adjacent to the airport, was hit in one of the blasts. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Smoke could be seen rising above buildings in the north of the city, where the Hamid Karzai international airport is located, and gunfire could be heard after the explosions.

Locals reported hearing the activation of airport’s missile defence system, and pictures on social media showed shrapnel falling on to rooftops and the street, suggesting that at least one rocket had been intercepted.

Social media posts, which could not immediately be verified, also showed a vehicle in flames after being apparently struck by retaliatory fire.

In Washington, the White House issued a statement saying President Joe Biden was being briefed on “the rocket attack at Hamid Karzai international airport” in Kabul.

“The president was informed that operations continue uninterrupted at HKIA [Hamid Karzai international airport], and has reconfirmed his order that commanders redouble their efforts to prioritise doing whatever is necessary to protect our forces on the ground,” the statement said.

It followed warnings issued by Biden on Saturday that another terrorist attack in Kabul was highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. On Thursday, Islamic State, rivals of the Taliban, carried out a suicide bomb attack at the airport that killed more than 150 people, including 13 US troops, and IS militants pose the greatest threat to the final phase of US evacuations.

Biden has set a deadline of 31 August to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, drawing to a close his nation’s longest military conflict. The UK, Nato and all other western countries ended their evacuation missions over the weekend.

America’s top diplomat, secretary of state Antony Blinken, described the final few days as “the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission”.

On Sunday night, a US drone strike blew up a vehicle in Kabul carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from IS before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul airport, American officials said. It was the second retaliatory airstrike the US has conducted against the militant group since Thursday’s suicide attack.

Despite initial denials by the US that there had any civilian casualties in Sunday’s strike, an Afghan official said three children were killed. US officials said the vehicle which was hit had been filled with explosives, causing secondary explosions.

Captain Bill Urban, US central command spokesperson, said: “We are confident we successfully hit the target … We are assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, though we have no indications at this time. We remain vigilant for potential future threats.”

So far, US evacuation flights have taken more than 114,000 US and Afghan citizens out of Kabul airport, but there are fears that many thousands of vulnerable Afghans who worked for the US and Nato missions have been left behind. The US said they had the capacity to withdraw a final 300 Americans before complete withdrawal on Tuesday.

Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said the US does not plan to have an ongoing embassy presence after the final troop withdrawal. But he pledged the US “will make sure there is safe passage for any American citizen, any legal permanent resident” after Tuesday, as well as for “those Afghans who helped us”.

Taliban assure world leaders they will let eligible people leave Afghanistan

The US state department released a statement Sunday signed by about 100 countries, as well as Nato and the European Union, saying they had received “assurances” from the Taliban that people with travel documents would still be able to leave the country.

The Taliban have said they will allow normal travel after the US withdrawal is completed on Tuesday and they assume control of the airport.


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The last US military flight has left Kabul airport, marking the end of a controversial 20-year presence in Afghanistan and America's longest war.


BBC News 31 AUG 2021.






Officials said the last C17 aircraft took off with the US ambassador onboard after midnight local time on Tuesday.

They added that the diplomatic mission to assist those unable to leave before the deadline would continue.

Celebratory gunfire by the Taliban was heard after the last plane departed.

The aircraft's departure was the final chapter in a contentious military effort, which eventually saw the US handing Afghanistan back to the very Islamist militants it sought to root out when American troops entered the country in 2001.


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RAF Ready to Launch Fresh ISIS Strikes in Afghanistan

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NOT OVER YET -Dominic Raab vowed to use ‘all means necessary’ against ISIS


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THE RAF is prepared to hit ISIS targets in Afghanistan in the wake of rocket attacks carried out by the terror group, its chief has said...





Sir Mike Wigton was speaking after Dominic Raab said the UK will use “all means necessary" to combat the threat posed by the jihadists.

A branch of the terror group based in Afghanistan known as ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb at Kabul airport that killed 170 Afghans and 13 US troops.

But even as the US finally withdrew after 20 years, attention has already turned to dealing with the terror group who its feared could use Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to plot attacks on the UK.

Air Chief Marshall Wigton told the Telegraph that “ultimately, what this boils down to is that we've got to be able to play a global role in the global coalition to defeat Daesh”.

Daesh is a derogatory term in Arabic for ISIS and is often used by their opponents when referring to them.

He added that could be “whether it's strike or whether it's moving troops or equipment into a particular country at scale and at speed".

"If there's an opportunity for us to contribute, I am in no doubt that we will be ready to,” he said

“That will be anywhere where violent extremism raises its head and is a direct or indirect threat to the UK and our allies.

“Afghanistan is probably one of the most inaccessible parts of the world, and we're able to operate there."

Government officials are understood already begun looking at the logistics for any possible strikes, including where RAF planes would be based.

Mr Raab signed a joint statement issued by the US-led coalition that previously targeted ISIS in Syria and Iraq vowing to crush the terrorists.

He said: "The UK stands united with our coalition partners in mourning those killed by Daesh's horrific attack at Kabul airport and in our unwavering collective resolve to combat Daesh networks by all means available, wherever they operate."

US forces have reportedly taken out several terrorist threats in the days since the attack.


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As they forces prepared to withdraw as many as six rockets fired at the Kabul airport were intercepted by US anti-missile system.

On Sunday, a US drone strike blew up a vehicle that was reportedly carrying multiple suicide bombers in Kabul.

It was carrying several militants and "packed with explosives" when hit.

But family members say at least 10 people, including seven children, were killed in the drone strike.

The strike was carried out after the Thursday attack reportedly killed another ISIS-K facilitator and planner.
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Former British Army Commander in Afghanistan Warns Terror Threat Greater Than Before 9/11

Good Morning Britain spoke with former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp who has issues with the current handling of the situation in Kabul


Daily Mirror,31 AUG 2021.







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On Tuesday morning, Good Morning Britain presenter and newsreader Pip Tomson spoke with Colonel Richard Kemp, the former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan.

The military veteran spoke out about the current crisis in Afghanistan as the Taliban have come to power and the last of US troops have pulled out of the country.

However, Colonel Kemp had stark words of warning about what the future holds following the Taliban’s seizure of power, dubbing the decision of the US and UK governments to pull out their armed forces as “foolish and catastrophic”.

Colonel Kemp said: “I think the reality is we now face a terrorist threat that is greater than anytime since before 9/11, including at the height of the Islamic State’s control of parts of Syria.

“Jihadists will flood into Afghanistan from around the world, they’ll train and prepare and carry out attacks on our countries.”

He added: “This departure and defeat will inspire jihadists everywhere to attack us, including jihadists here in Britain.”

Pip Tomson questioned Colonel Kemp on what strategy would be pursued to deal with this given that UK forces are unlikely to return to Afghanistan.

“No, we’re not going to do that. The only way we can combat it is by intelligence the ground, intelligence using airborne censors etc., interception of communication which leads us then to target attacks against concentrations of terrorists who are planning to kill us.”

However, he noted that the ability to do this will also be damaged by the lack of a Western presence in Afghanistan.

Colonel Kemp argued that all of this showed how “foolish and catastrophic” the decision to leave the country was.

Pip asked Colonel Kemp whether he foresaw British forces working with the Taliban and he considered this unlikely, considering them more likely to be a target of attack along with the so-called Islamic State and Al-Qaeda.
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Afghanistan: UK and Taliban in Talks Over Further Evacuations and Terrorism Prevention

Intelligence chief seeks assurances over Afghan helpers and that country will not become terrorist base

The UK is in talks with the Taliban to secure safe passage out of Afghanistan for a number of British nationals and Afghans who remain there.

BBC News 1 SEP 2021





The talks, involving UK officials and senior Taliban members, are taking place in Doha, Qatar, No 10 said.


The defence secretary is understood to have told MPs that between 150 and 250 people eligible for relocation - plus their families - remain in the country.

It comes after a Taliban pledge to allow further departures.





Commenting on the UK-Taliban negotiations, a No 10 spokesman said: "The prime minister's special representative for Afghan transition, Sir Simon Gass, has travelled to Doha and is meeting with senior Taliban representatives to underline the importance of safe passage out of Afghanistan for British nationals, and those Afghans who have worked with us over the past 20 years."

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will face questions from MPs later over his handling of the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Opposition parties called for his resignation last month after it emerged he had been unavailable to make a phone call about evacuating interpreters while he was on holiday in Crete.

Mr Raab subsequently said that "with hindsight" he would not have gone away, but dismissed the idea that he was "lounging on the beach" as "nonsense".

Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said Mr Raab had answers to give on "much more than the chaos of the last two weeks", adding: "The foreign secretary had 18 months to prepare but was missing in action."

Downing Street has insisted that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has "full confidence" in Mr Raab and there are "no plans" for a Cabinet reshuffle.
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Details of the talks between the UK and the Taliban are sparse.

A statement from Downing Street says they will "underline" the importance of Afghan nationals being granted safe passage out of the country, which suggests the talks may be about the importance of the issue rather a negotiation over logistics.

And it's a delicate bit of diplomacy - the UK wants something from the Taliban but doesn't want to bestow too much legitimacy on them before the nature of their administration becomes clear.






But Sir Simon is well qualified for the job, which he's been in for a few weeks. He was Nato's most senior non-military representative in Afghanistan, spent years as a top official in the Foreign Office and helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal.





On Tuesday, Mr Raab said more than 17,000 people had been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far, including over 5,000 UK nationals.

He also said the UK needed to face the "new reality" in Afghanistan and work with other nations to exercise a "moderating influence" on the Taliban.


Former British ambassador to Afghanistan between 2010 and 2012 Sir William Patey said engaging with the Taliban could help prevent a refugee crisis and avoid the country becoming a host for terrorists.

"[The Taliban] know they can't run this country without help," he told the BBC's Newsnight, adding that the UK had "some cards" in the talks because "they're going to have to engage".



Victoria Atkins, who has been appointed Afghan Resettlement minister, told BBC Breakfast the Taliban would "be relying on international aid - and we want that to be forefront of their mind when we are discussing with them and third countries".

Asked whether the talks would legitimise the Taliban, she said that was the "great debate for the Western world" but any talks were being "done carefully", and the government was determined to ensure those eligible in Afghanistan could leave.

The Taliban have declared victory in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops, with fighters streaming into Kabul airport on Tuesday. British troops left the country over the weekend.

The militants have promised those with authorisation will be allowed to leave the country, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pledged to "hold the Taliban to their commitment".

But Dame Barbara Woodward, the UK's ambassador to the UN, said they would be judged "on the basis of their actions on the ground, not their words".


In addition to the talks with the Taliban, the UK government said it was sending 15 "crisis response specialists" to Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to assist British diplomats in their work to allow people to reach the UK.

They are expected to focus on helping UK nationals, interpreters and other Afghans who were employed by the UK, and those Afghans judged most at risk.


Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday, a former English language teacher who is stranded in Kabul said he regretted working with the UK mission because he now fears for his life.


"Why did I work for people who left me and fled and left me alone here?" he asked.

The teacher, who the BBC is not naming, said he was now a target for the Taliban.

"They are looking for me because I've got pictures in billboards advertised for classes," he said.

He said he tried to escape Afghanistan shortly before the militants took control but received "no reply" to his application for resettlement, adding that he had been unable to sleep ever since.

Asked what he thought would happen to him if he could not leave and the Taliban found him, he added: "My fate will be the same, like others, like the people who work in military, in the media... they will kill me too."

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Pregnant Police Officer Tied Up and Murdered by Taliban in Front of Her Children

Relatives claimed Banu Negar, who worked in a local prison, was tied up, beaten and shot dead in front of her husband and children in Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province

BBC News 6 SEP 2021.





Relatives claimed Banu Negar was killed by Taliban militants at her family home


Taliban militants have killed a pregnant police officer in front of her husband and children in Afghanistan, reports claim.

The men then reportedly mutilated her face as they went about door-to-door executions in Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province.

Banu Negar, who worked in a local prison, was eight months pregnant when she was killed at her home on Saturday.

Relatives are said to have supplied the BBC with graphic evidence of her horrific death, reportedly showing blood spattered on a wall along with her disfigured face.

The relatives claimed three gunmen showed up to the home on Saturday and searched it, before tying members of Banu's family up.






A protester speaks with a member of the Taliban during a protest in Herat as concerns over women's rights grow


The broadcaster reports three sources told the broadcaster Mrs Negar was beaten, then shot dead in front of her family.

The intruders were heard speaking Arabic, a witness said.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for the death as claims its militants are carrying out atrocities escalate.

The hardline group has claimed it has changed, and its official policy is it will not carry out retribution killings or repress women.

Women's education was banned under Taliban rule in the 1990s, and its takeover in the past month has led to fears it will return to its revive its old reign of terror.





Top cop Gulafroz Ebtekar, ex-deputy chief of criminal investigations in Afghanistan, is said to have fled into hiding (Image:EAST2WEST NEWS)


The Taliban has said it will allow women to hold jobs and receive education - but under its interpretation of Islamic law.

But within days of its return to power there were claims women were being turned away from workplaces and universities in some parts of the country.

Many women donned burkas and were among those attempting to flee the county in fear of Taliban rule.

Afghanistan's youngest female mayor was among those to bravely speak out about her fears before going into hiding.

Zarifa Ghafari said she feared the Taliban would "come for people like me and kill me" as its militants closed in on Kabul before the capital fell to its rule just weeks ago.

Despite its official promises since then, human rights groups are alleging that Taliban militants are being documented carrying out revenge killings, detentions and persecuting religious minorities in pockets of Afghanistan.
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China Offers $31m in Emergency Aid to Afghanistan

China has pledged 200 million yuan ($31m, £22m) worth of aid to Afghanistan, including food supplies and coronavirus vaccines.

The aid comes as Beijing said it was ready to maintain communication with the TalibanGovernment.


BBC News 10 SEP 2021.





It added that the establishment of the new interim government was a "necessary step to restore order" in Afghanistan.

The Taliban's interim cabinet was announced last week, with the country declared an "Islamic Emirate".

US President Joe Biden has said the country is still a "long way off" from recognising the Taliban government.

Meanwhile China has been quick to step in.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the aid measures for Afghanistan at a meeting on Wednesday, with counterparts from several of Afghanistan's neighbours - Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

He called on these countries to cooperate in helping Afghanistan, adding that China would also provide 3 million vaccine doses to the country.

China has also been vocally critical about the US' withdrawal, saying its troops had "wrecked havoc" in Afghanistan.

A state official said the US had inflicted "serious damage on the Afghan people from the very first day of its invasion to the last minute of its withdrawal".

"What the US did in Afghanistan over the past two decades is a textbook example which shows us the consequences of wanton military intervention and attempts to impose one's own ideology and values on others," said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin.

Taliban officials have described China as Afghanistan's most important partner and pinned hopes on Chinese investment and support to rebuild the war-torn country.

Beijing has made serious efforts to establish good relations with the Taliban.

Even before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, China invited representatives of the group over for talks in July, offering economic support for Afghanistan but also stressing that the country should not be used as a staging point for terrorists.

However, Beijing has struggled to sell this cautious alliance to some parts of the Chinese public that are repulsed by t
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'Tragic Mistake': Pentagon Apologies For Kabul Drone Strike That Killed 10 Civilians

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The Pentagon has admitted a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including up to seven children, was a "tragic mistake".








General Kenneth Franklin McKenzie Jr, head of US central command, said it was "unlikely" the vehicle targeted on August 29 - or those who died - were associated with ISIS-K or were a direct threat to US forces.

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Afghanistan: Second Email Data Breach by MOD Uncovered

A second data breach by the Ministry of Defence, potentially compromising the safety of Afghans who may be eligible to relocate to the UK, has been uncovered by the BBC.

BBC News 23 SEP 2021.





Dozens of people were mistakenly copied in to an email earlier this month, with their email addresses visible to all recipients.


It is the second such breach to come to light. An investigation is under way.

The MoD has apologised and said extra support was being offered to them.

In the latest data breach to be uncovered, defence officials sent an email that had the email addresses and some names of 55 people which could be seen by everyone who was sent the message.

The recipients - at least one of whom is from the Afghan National Army - were told UK relocation officials had been unable to contact them and they were asked to update their details.

An MoD spokeswoman said: "We have been made aware of a data breach that occurred earlier this month by the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) team.

"This week, the defence secretary instigated an investigation into data handling within that team.

"Steps have now been taken to ensure this does not happen in the future."



Defence secretary angered over Afghan data breach

MoD shared 250 Afghan interpreters' details on email



It comes just a day after the defence secretary apologised for a separate breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it had been "an unacceptable level of service" that had let down thousands of members of the armed forces and veterans.

More than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK - many of whom are in hiding - were mistakenly copied into the email.

Their email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people's names and some associated profile pictures.

Mr Wallace said an investigation had been launched and one official suspended.

Defence sources told the BBC that Mr Wallace did not know about this second breach when he spoke in the Commons on Tuesday.

Former Conservative defence minister Johnny Mercer, who served in Afghanistan, said he feared there may be more to come.

"I've been concerned from the start as to how these individuals have been treated - the whole thing was such a rush to the door when Kabul fell that these mistakes were inevitable," he said.

"I personally think we've taken out people we really shouldn't have, and failed to bring out the majority of those we should - I think we are only beginning to learn the scale of what has gone on here."

On Tuesday, Labour shadow defence secretary John Healey welcomed the defence secretary's apology but told the Commons that action now mattered most.

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Afghanistan: US and Taliban Discuss Aid in First Direct Talks Since US Exit

The US has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the country's Taliban rulers say.

BBC News 11 OCT 2021.







The statement came at the end of their first direct talks, in Qatar, since US troops left Afghanistan in August.


Aside from aid, the talks focused on containing extremist groups and the evacuation of US citizens.

US officials described the discussions as candid and professional, but added that the Taliban would be judged by their actions.

The US insisted the meeting did not amount to recognition of the Taliban.

In a statement issued on Sunday night, the Taliban said: "US representatives stated that they will give humanitarian assistance to Afghans and will provide facilities for other humanitarian organisations to deliver aid."

It added that the Taliban would "co-operate with charitable groups in delivering the humanitarian assistance to those deserving transparently, and will facilitate the principled movement of foreign nationals".

However, the US has yet to formally confirm the Taliban's claim on aid.

Spokesperson Ned Price said that the two sides had discussed the provision "of robust humanitarian assistance, directly to the Afghan people," without providing further details.

"The US delegation focused on security and terrorism concerns and safe passage for US citizens, other foreign nationals and our Afghan partners, as well as human rights, including the meaningful participation of women and girls in all aspects of Afghan society", he said.

The talks were held as Afghanistan faces what aid workers fear is a severe humanitarian crisis.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned at a donor conference last month in Geneva that the poverty rate was soaring and public services were close to collapse.

Some 40% of the country's GDP - national output - comes from aid, according to the World Bank.

The US froze $10bn (£7.3bn) of the country's central bank assets after the Taliban captured Kabul on 15 August.

For the poor in Kabul, the priority is staving off starvation, the BBC's Jeremy Bowen recently reported from the Afghan capital.

At the Qatar meeting, the Taliban ruled out co-operation with Washington on tackling the activities of the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (IS-K).

The Taliban's spokesperson in Qatar, Suhail Shaheen, told the Associated Press that they were able to tackle the threat independently.

An IS-K suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz killed at least 50 people on Friday in the deadliest attack since US troops left the country.

More than 100 others were injured in the blast at the Said Abad mosque, used by the minority Shia Muslim community.
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Afghan Dad Pleads With Man He is Forced to Sell His Daughter To, aged 9, So He Can Buy Food

Parwana Malik, who lives in a refugee camp in Afghanistan, fears being beaten by the man after the sale was agreed between the man and her parents


Daily Mirror 9 NOV 2021.





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A dad who sold his nine-year-old daughter to a 55-year-old husband has said he is "broken" with guilt - but had claimed he had no choice.


Parwana Malik, who lives in a refugee camp in Afghanistan, fears being beaten by the man after the sale was agreed between the man and her parents.

But in a heartbreaking interview, her dad said that selling his daughter is the only way he can support his family after international aid dried up when the Taliban seized power.

Human rights groups say widespread hunger and desperation mean more and more families are being forced to sell off their children.

In an exchange witnessed by CNN, Parwana's father Abdul Malik pleaded with the buyer not to beat her.

She tried to struggle as she was dragged away, the network reports.

The girl's father, Abdul Malik, pleaded with her buyer not to beat her


Abdul told CNN - after saying he wants to shine a light on the desperation that families are facing: "We are eight family members, I have to sell to keep other family members alive."

The family has lived in a refugee camp in the Badghis province, with Abdul trying to earn small amounts of money when he can.

But with the latest crisis, he said he has been unable to scrape the money together to feed his loved ones, and has had to borrow "lots of money" from relatives.

Speaking to his daughter's buyer, the weeping dad pleaded: "This is your bride. Please take care of her - you are responsible for her now, please don't beat her."

Humanitarian groups say more and more families are turning to selling their children

The 55-year-old man claimed he planned to raise Parwana as a member of his family, saying she was "cheap" and would work in his home.

Abdul told CNN he had been searching for work but not had any success, and is now unable to afford basic necessities.

He said he is "broken" with guilt, shame and worry, and said that the money would only sustain the family for a few months.

In another heartbreaking case, a grandmother has described being forced to sell her two granddaughters in order for her family to survive.

Ruhsana Samimi, 56, from the Hindu Kush province in central Afghanistan, told Abna news agency : "We are starving and have received no help, not even from our relatives. If someone had helped us, I would not have put my granddaughter up for sale."

Close to a million children are at risk of starvation, the UN’s World Food Programme has warned.

The group has said millions could die unless urgent action is taken to save 22.8 million Afghans who are close to starving to death.

Afghans have been hit by a global blockage on aid since western troops suddenly pulled out of Kabul.

The Taliban’s brutal take-over has led to a lack of international recognition by the world of the new government - and no more aid.

One woman told the BBC : “My other children were dying of hunger so we had to sell my daughter.




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The Afghans Turning to People Smugglers to Flee Their Country

Near the Pakistan border thousands of Afghans are turning to people smugglers to escape Afghanistan and its new Taliban Government.

BBC News 10 NOV 2021.



People traffickers have always operated on this border but where they once bribed corrupt officials to let them through they now pay a fee to the Taliban government

Most are young men with no passport or visa who hope to go from Pakistan on to Iran and from there to Turkey or other countries to find work.

But there are also families hoping to leave Afghanistan. Many worked for the previous government and were civil servants, teachers or soldiers. They say they have no choice but to leave with the Taliban in power.

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Afghanistan: Foreign Office Chaotic During Kabul Evacuation - Whistleblower

The UK Foreign Office's handling of the Afghan evacuation after the Taliban seized Kabul was "dysfunctional" and "chaotic", a whistleblower has said.


BBC 7 DEC 2021





'Betrayed': The Afghans who feel left behind at the airport near a plane surrounded by troops.



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Raphael Marshall said the process of choosing who could get a flight out was "arbitrary" and thousands of emails with pleas for help went unread.

The then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was slow to make decisions, he added.

Mr Raab told the BBC lessons would be learned but the UK did a "good job" compared to other countries.

He said 15,000 people were evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan in two weeks, "the biggest operation in living memory" and a larger number than any nation except the US.

Mr Raab said the criticism of his decision-making was from a "relatively junior desk officer" but the main challenges were in verifying the identities of applicants on the ground and safely escorting them to the airport in Kabul, not in making decisions from Whitehall.

Other criticisms were "rather dislocated from the operational pressures and conditions", he said.

"I don't doubt there were challenges, I don't doubt there will be lessons to be learned but if you look at the facts, I think we did a good job by recent standards of evacuations and by international comparisons," he told BBC Breakfast.

The 15,000 people airlifted out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the capital, Kabul, included 5,000 British nationals, 8,000 Afghans and 2,000 children.

In written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr Marshall said up to 150,000 Afghans who were at risk because of their links to Britain applied to be evacuated - but fewer than 5% received any assistance.

"It is clear that some of those left behind have since been murdered by the Taliban," he added.


Mr Marshall, who was a senior desk officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) until he resigned in September, said there was "inadequate staffing" at the department's crisis centre.

There was also a "lack of expertise" and a "lack of co-ordination" between the department and the Ministry of Defence, he added.

Mr Marshall also said Mr Raab took hours to answer emails and "did not fully understand the situation".


What are The Allegations?


Key issues flagged by diplomat-turned-whistleblower Raphael Marshall include:



Only 5% of the 150,000 people who requested help received any

Nobody in the team dealing with requests had studied or had any detailed knowledge of Afghanistan, or had ever worked there

No one spoke any Afghan languages, with calls to people asking for help conducted in English

Decisions about who to rescue were "arbitrary", and thousands of emails pleading for assistance were not even read

The IT system was dysfunctional, with eight soldiers drafted in to help left sharing one computer

Dominic Raab was slow to make decisions on difficult cases and "did not fully understand the situation"



As the Taliban approached Kabul in August, there was one government scheme to evacuate those Afghans who had worked directly for the British government, and another to identify and help those who were at risk because of their broader links to the UK.

Mr Marshall worked for the team of officials handling a group known as "Afghan Special Cases".

These included Afghan soldiers, politicians, journalists, civil servants, activists, aid workers, judges - and guards who had worked indirectly for the UK government via subcontractors.

In the desperate days at the end of August as the Taliban advanced on Kabul many of these people were emailing the FCDO to get permission for a flight out of the country.

Mr Marshall said there were "usually 5,000 unread emails in the inbox at any given moment" and "in thousands of cases emails were not even read", including cases from MPs.

He said the process of prioritising the applicants was "arbitrary and dysfunctional". The criteria used by the government were "unhelpful" and "ambiguous", leading to confusion.





'Chaotic System'

Staff in the crisis centre who previously worked for the Department for International Development could not access FCDO computers because "the DFID and FCO IT systems are not yet integrated. They were visibly appalled by our chaotic system".

Mr Marshall described how soldiers were brought in to help but many had not used the computer systems before and so mistakes were made.

The computers had to be shared because FCDO IT had not issued passwords to unlock them. At one point eight soldiers shared one computer.







During the evacuation there chaotic scenes outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul


Telephone calls to Afghans were made only in English, Mr Marshall said. There was no one who spoke Dari or Pashto.

Mr Marshall said: "I believe no member of the Afghan Special Cases team had studied Afghanistan, worked on Afghanistan previously, or had a detailed knowledge of Afghanistan.

He added: "One was clearly scared of being asked to make hundreds of life and death decisions about which they knew nothing."



He said: "Most people in the FCDO crisis centre had a poor understanding of the actual situation at Kabul airport and the consequent urgency of calling people up as soon as possible."

Mr Marshall's report states the FCDO crisis centre sent notes up to Mr Raab's office to get decisions on difficult cases.

But "it took several hours for the foreign secretary to engage on any of these notes" and when he did "he could not decide on individual cases" without seeing all the cases "in a well-presented table".

Mr Marshall concluded: "For the foreign secretary to make this request suggests he did not fully understand the situation."

He said on another occasion, "the foreign secretary declined to make a decision on whether to admit these people without a properly formatted submission with a table setting out multiple cases."

A source close to Mr Raab said: "We evacuated over 500 special cases, including journalists, women's rights activists and extremely vulnerable individuals.

"The major practical challenge to evacuation was verifying identity and securing safe passage to the airport, not the speed of decision making. At all times, the team's focus was on saving lives."


'Leadership Questions'


Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat MP, said the evidence pointed to a "lack of interest, and bureaucracy over humanity" and "raises serious questions about the leadership of the Foreign Office."

A UK government spokesperson said more than 1,000 FCDO staff worked tirelessly to evacuate more than 15,000 people from Afghanistan within a fortnight.

"The scale of the evacuation and the challenging circumstances meant decisions on prioritisation had to be made quickly to ensure we could help as many people as possible," it said.

It said the government was still working to help others leave and since the end of the operation had helped more than 3,000 people leave Afghanistan.

"Regrettably we were not able to evacuate all those we wanted to, but our commitment to them is enduring," they added.


Brigadier James Martin speaks about the UK's evacuation operation from Afghanistan








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Foreign Office Chief MUST Quit -Over Holiday Whilst Taliban was Taking Over Kabul.

Dominic Raab urged to quit after being ‘too busy’ on holiday to make phone call about saving Afghan interpreters

The Foreign Secretary was in Crete while the Taliban was taking over Kabul.

"Dominic Raab will go down as one of the worst Foreign Secretaries in history," one MP tells LFF.


BBC News 8 DEC 2021.






The UK Foreign Secretary is under growing pressure to resign after reports he failed to make a vital phone call over the evacuation of Afghan interpreters while he was on a luxury holiday.


Dominic Raab faced scathing criticism from opposition MPs yesterday during the debate on Afghanistan, when Labour leader Keir Starmer said he ‘wouldn’t stay on holiday while Kabul was falling.’

The foreign secretary was in Crete on Sunday while the Taliban was taking over Kabul, as refugees desperately tried to escape.

The Daily Mail have now revealed that senior aides desperately tried to get Raab to contact Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar last Friday about getting Afghan interpreters out of the country without passports or visas if need be.

Senior officials are said to have told him: “We recommend the foreign secretary urgently calls the Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atma.”

However, Raab is said to have delegated the task to junior Foreign Office Minister Zac Goldsmith. The paper claims that Afghan authorities initially refused to set up a call with a junior minister, meaning crucial time was lost that could’ve been used to save more Afghan interpreters.

Those revelations have now led to growing calls for Raab to quit, with shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy saying this morning: “How can Boris Johnson allow the foreign secretary to continue in his role after yet another catastrophic failure of judgement?

“If Dominic Raab doesn’t have the decency to resign, the prime minister must show a shred of leadership and sack him.”
Labour leader Keir Starmer took to Twitter to add: “Who wouldn’t make a phone call if they were told it could save somebody’s life?”


Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokeswoman Layla Moran also added to calls for Raab to resign saying he must do so ‘today’.

The SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the foreign secretary of a dereliction of his duties.

He said: “Tory ministers cannot wash their hands of responsibility for this foreign policy disaster.

“Dominic Raab has failed to perform his basic duties as foreign secretary, and he has put people’s lives at risk. His position is completely untenable and he must resign, or be sacked.”

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace sough to defend Mr Raab this morning, telling Sky News: “One phone call is not the reason we are where we are at the moment.

“I have had no problem dealing with the Foreign Secretary or the Foreign Office throughout this process.”


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Riot police in Almaty



The armed men in uniforms checked every ward, shouting that they were looking for people wounded in mass unrest that had left scores dead.


Asel, who had been shot in the violence and was being treated in the hospital in Kazakhstan's biggest city Almaty, recalled the chilling encounter.

"One of them shouted, 'if you go out to protest again, we will kill you'."




She believes the men with guns were from the special police forces or security services and were rounding up anyone who had taken part in anti-government protests.

They tried to take Asel with them but she was too badly wounded to walk. Her name has been changed to protect her identity.

Violence and looting on this scale had not been seen before in Kazakhstan

Like many others, she joined what started as peaceful protests against fuel price rises in early January. Kazakhstan has some of the world's largest oil reserves but most of the population doesn't share in the wealth.

The demonstrations quickly spiralled into mass disturbances and looting that led to the worst bloodshed in the former Soviet state's 30 years of independence.

The authorities are accused of using excessive force to restore order. Officially, 225 people were killed and many more were injured. Some 10,000 people have been detained in the wake of the disturbances, the authorities say.

Like many others, Asel, who is 57, is now worried that she could be arrested and accused of participating in the unrest.




Muratbek Yesengazy shows his leg covered in bruises

Muratbek Yesengazy's lawyer says he was beaten in detention


Kazakhstan's prosecutor-general's office has opened nearly 700 criminal cases. Some of those accused are charged with terrorism, murder and seeking to overthrow the government.

However, human rights groups say the authorities are cracking down on everyone who took part in the protests, including peaceful demonstrators.

Even those who simply posted on Facebook in support of the protests are being detained. They face beatings and torture, activists say.

"There is no presumption of innocence," said Bakhytzhan Toregozhina, a human rights activist in Almaty. "They are all potential terrorists for the authorities and they try to force confessions out of them."

One activist Muratbek Yesengazy who took part in the protest on Almaty's main square is accused of participating in the violence. His lawyer told the BBC that he had been beaten in detention - photos show his leg covered in bruises.

The authorities flatly deny any detainees have been beaten or tortured.

Those who didn't participate in the violence "should not worry", Saltanat Azirbek of the Almaty Police Department told the BBC, adding they would be released once the facts had been established.


'They shot at peaceful protesters'



The protests began as peaceful demonstrations against fuel price rises

It is still not clear how peaceful protests turned so violent.

Initially, the mood of the crowd was festive when people rallied on 4 January. They sang the anthem of Kazakhstan and chanted political demands.

"The crowd was very diverse," recalls Timur Nusimbekov, a local journalist who watched events unfold in Almaty. "There were people from the suburbs, people from the city centre. There were hipsters and young working people."

The atmosphere started to change when the authorities threw stun grenades and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, leading to clashes between police and protesters.

The next day, on 5 January, tensions grew. Some people on the square in Almaty were armed with knives and hunting rifles, says Mr Nusimbekov.

It's still not clear who these people were.


Ms Azirbek of the Almaty police said "well trained men versed in combat tactics" attacked police with the aim of seizing their weapons.

Protesters who were there blame unidentified provocateurs. "We protested peacefully," one activist, Konay Abdiyev, told the BBC.

"But then a group of young men arrived and ran straight towards the city hall. We couldn't stop them. They destroyed cars and smashed windows.

"They were wearing masks that hid their faces. We were afraid even to look into their eyes out of fear that they would assault us."
'They shot at peaceful protesters'

Events soon spiralled out of control. Some in the crowd seized the city hall and set it on fire. The sounds of gunfire and stun grenades rocked the square.

One of those hit by the bullets was Asel.

"I could feel blood gushing from my leg. I had a blackout and then regained consciousness when two men were dragging me, covering me with their shields. They shouted to lay low as bullets whizzed by."

She was put into a truck and driven to hospital. "I remember there were a lot of people inside the truck. I moaned from pain.
Several people were on top of my wounded leg. Some of them were not breathing."

Protesters in Almaty held a banner saying "we are not terrorists" shortly before the shooting on 6 January

Those who remained on the square on 6 January tried to hold a peaceful rally, among them many elderly men and women who were seeking an end to the shooting.

Protesters held a banner saying: "We are not terrorists, we are peaceful people."

But that evening soldiers arrived in armoured vehicles and blocked the square from both sides.

"We were near the independence monument," recalls Saltanat Khamzina, another protester. "People carried the flag of Kazakhstan. They lined up and waved with their hands [to show they were unarmed]."

At around 7pm, the military opened fire.

"It sounded as if they were firing into the air but people behind us were dropping dead. Not those in the front row - they were not hit. So probably there were snipers who shot under the noise of gunfire," said Saltanat.

Another protester, Meirkhan Abdumanapov, took cover near the independence monument where he saw a man of about 50 who had been hurt.

"He was moaning and couldn't move. Two young girls of about 17 or 18, and another young man, were lying on top of each other.
They showed no signs of life.

"I was so furious that I promised myself I would tell everyone that they shot at peaceful protesters."

The authorities are accused of using excessive force to restore order

Ms Azirbek of Almaty police insisted the security forces used lethal force only in self-defence.

The Kazakh government, meanwhile, has blamed the violence on "terrorists" with international links, for which it has provided no evidence. There have also been reports of an internal power struggle linked to the former President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Whatever caused the bloodshed, local journalist Timur Nusimbekov warns that "peaceful protesters, activists and journalists must not be confused with looters and bandits".

The authorities, he says, are trying to cover up "massive mistakes they made and which led to the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the history of Kazakhstan".




Kazakhstan: The Basics

Where is it? Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia to the north and China to the east. It is a huge country the size of Western Europe
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Why does it matter? A former Soviet republic which is mainly Muslim with a large Russian minority, it has vast mineral resources, with 3% of global oil reserves and important coal and gas sectors.

Why is it making the news? Fuel riots, which have escalated to become broader protests against the government, have resulted in resignations at the top and a bloody crackdown on protesters.







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Afghanistan: UK Embassy Staff Allege Taliban Beatings and TORTURE

More than 100 men who worked at the British embassy in Afghanistan remain in the country, with some telling the BBC they have been beaten and tortured.


BBC News 16 JUN 2022




An unnamed worker says he was beaten by the Taliban for working at the embassy

The men worked for the global security company, GardaWorld, and many had been in post for more than a decade.


Several shared photos of injuries they say were caused by the Taliban



The UK government says it has evacuated more than 15,000 people since last year and is working to bring more to the UK.

A spreadsheet listing the names of more than 150 men who worked at the embassy and still live in the country has been seen and verified by BBC Two's Newsnight.

One man, who cannot be named to protect his identity, said he was recently beaten by the Taliban because of his previous job as a guard at the embassy.

"I was sitting outside when gunmen approached me, one of [them] attacked me," he said.

"They said you were working for the British embassy. They started beating me and they threw me on the ground.





Bandaged body of unnamed embassy guard

"They attacked me again and again," one man said



Another former guard said a militant hit him over the head with the butt of a rifle. He says he was only released after the Taliban was convinced he no longer worked for the British.

This week, the UK government said the men would be able to apply to come to the UK from 20 June as part of its Afghan citizens resettlement scheme (ACRS), which is primarily targeted at those who assisted the UK efforts in Afghanistan.

It was officially launched in January but application requests can only be submitted from next week. Critics say that is too little, too late.

A separate government scheme, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), aimed to relocate those who were employed directly by the British government, including interpreters who helped British forces.

One Afghan who came to the UK earlier this year under ARAP said many of his former colleagues from the embassy were being threatened on a daily basis. He is not being named to protect his family who remain in Afghanistan.


"I feel like the British have been disloyal," he said. "They made a promise - these men worked hard for them and now their lives are at risk.


"I can't sleep or eat without thinking of what they're going through. They message me constantly asking for help.".


This week armed forces minister James Heappey told the Commons 9,500 Afghans have already been successfully relocated to the UK under the ARAP scheme.

But he said thousands more still remained in Afghanistan. "We think we've got about the same to go in terms of the number of people who are eligible," he said.





The British Embassy in Kabul has suspended operations there since the Taliban takeover



The human rights charity, Azadi, works to support and evacuate targeted Afghans. Sarah Magill, the charity's director, said there had been no explanation why it had taken so long to begin the next process.

"Through their inaction the government has caused incalculable trauma," she said. "It is a deeply inhumane way to treat a body of staff entrusted to keep British ministers and civil servants safe."

The government has faced fierce criticism of its handling of the evacuation in Afghanistan last summer, with one group of MPs saying there had been a "total absence of a plan for evacuating Afghans who supported the UK mission".

At the height of the Taliban takeover the government issued a statement, saying: "We will help all those Afghan security guards contracted through GardaWorld to protect the embassy.

"They will be granted the right to enter the UK and we are now working through the challenging logistics of getting them out of Kabul."


A UK government spokesperson said: "Our staff worked tirelessly to evacuate over 15,000 people to safety from Afghanistan within a fortnight in the biggest and fastest emergency in recent history. We are still working hard to assist the people of Afghanistan, having already helped over 4,600 individuals to leave the country since the end of the military evacuation.

"We have opened the Afghanistan Citizen Resettlement Scheme, one of the most ambitious resettlement programmes in the world and the first bespoke scheme in Europe to begin resettling evacuees and individuals."

GardaWorld added: "Since the closure of the British Embassy in Kabul, we have been working tirelessly with the UK government to ensure the maximum take-up for our Afghan staff on the UK resettlement schemes."


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Afghanistan: Taliban Fire Shots to Stop Afghan Women's Kabul Protest

Alia Azizi, Head of Herat Women’s Prison Mysteriously Disappeared - Taliban Urged to Reveal Whereabouts of Missing Afghan Woman Police Officer


Taliban authorities must reveal Alia Azizi’s whereabouts


Afghan Women Disappear From Public Life by Order of Taliban's Vice and Virtue Ministry


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Alia Azizi, a member of the ethnic Hazara community and the head of Herat women’s prison, mysteriously disappeared after she reported for duty in the western province on Oct.2, 2021.




“Despite several pleas by her family to the Taliban to investigate the case, a veil of secrecy still shrouds her disappearance,” Amnesty said in a statement.















Women Psychologists in Herat Terrified for Their Clients


The Taliban authorities must urgently investigate the abduction of Alia Azizi, a senior female prison official who has been missing for more than three months after she reported for duty in Herat, and immediately and unconditionally release her if in their custody, Amnesty international said.

Alia Azizi, a member of the ethnic Hazara community and the Head of Herat Women’s Prison, never returned home after going to work on 2 October 2021. Despite several pleas by her family to the Taliban to investigate the case, a veil of secrecy still shrouds her disappearance.

“It’s been more than three months since Alia Azizi disappeared and her family still remains completely in the dark about her whereabouts. Her apparent abduction takes place within the context of the Taliban illegally detaining members of the former government, journalists, and assorted critics across the country,” said Zaman Sultani, Amnesty International’s South Asia Researcher.

At the Taliban’s request, Alia Azizi returned to her job on 24 August 2021, just nine days after the collapse of the Afghan Government, her brother Mohammad Nazir Arefi told Amnesty International. She was earlier given an amnesty letter, guaranteeing her safety, by the Taliban on 12 August 2021, the day the group took over Herat province.

According to Mohammad Nazir Arefi, the family`s continued pleas to the Taliban authorities in Herat have failed to get the group to initiate an investigation into her disappearance. The only information they have received in response is that she is not with the Taliban. Since Alia Azizi’s disappearance, her telephone has been disconnected and, according to Arefi, when the family tracked her phone conversations through the service provider, Alia’s last communication was with the Taliban’s Head of Herat Prison.

“As the de facto authorities, the Taliban must take immediate steps to conduct a thorough, impartial and independent investigation into this and other cases of enforced disappearance, provide answers to the families whose loved ones are missing, and hold those within its ranks accountable across the country for committing crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations,” said Zaman Sultani.


On 16 January 2022, the Taliban tried to silence women’s protests in Kabul calling for the Taliban to release Alia Azizi. In dispersing the women protesters, the Taliban used electric devices to shock women protesters and used chemical substances such as pepper spray that caused the protestors severe skin and eye irritation, according to Human Rights Watch. In September, the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior issued an order banning all demonstrations and gatherings “until a policy of demonstration is codified”.

“It is quite evident that the promises made by the Taliban, particularly to Afghan women and girls are being broken, and there is complete disregard for their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law. The Taliban must immediately end the use of unlawful force against those exercising their right to peaceful assembly.” said Zaman Sultani.

Amnesty International contacted the Taliban for comment on 19 January; despite them initially promising to investigate the cases with their relevant authorities and get back to Amnesty, they have not provided an answer to Amnesty regarding the case at the time of publication. Amnesty International plans to publish the Taliban`s response if it receives a response to its query.



Background

Alia Azizi is among the few women who, despite the perpetual violence against women in the country, joined the former Afghan National Police. She is a high school graduate and has more than ten years’ experience working in the former police in Herat – including as the Head of Herat Women’s Prison.

Recent Amnesty International investigations have documented that the Taliban has extrajudicially and willfully killed members of the former security forces, government supporters and ethnic Hazaras across the country.



Taliban Fire Shots to Stop Afghan Women's Kabul Protest

Video footage has shown Taliban fighters dispersing dozens of female protesters in Kabul, who were marching to demand their rights.


It is almost a year since the militant group seized power in Afghanistan and it is rare for women to go on marches.

Taliban fighters fired shots in the air to scatter the protesters and also beat some of the women and seized mobile phones.




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The Taliban have used a water cannon to disperse a group of women protesting against the ban on female students in Afghanistan attending university.


BBC 27 DEC 2022










Women have also been prevented from entering parks and gyms, among other public places.

An order by the Taliban banning women from working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has been condemned by the United Nations, which said the move violated fundamental rights.





The Islamist rulers justified the move by saying female NGO staff had broken dress codes by not wearing hijabs.

The decree comes just days after female students were banned from universities.

The US Secretary of State also criticised the move saying it would be "devastating for the Afghan people".

Female Afghan NGO workers acting as the main earners in their household told the BBC of their fear and helplessness.

One asked: "If I cannot go to my job, who can support my family?" Another breadwinner called the news "shocking" and insisted she had complied with the Taliban's strict dress code.

A third woman questioned the Taliban's "Islamic morals", saying she would now struggle to pay her bills and feed her children.

"The world is watching us and doing nothing," said another female interviewee. The BBC is not publishing the women's names in order to protect them.

Saturday's order came in a letter from the Ministry of Economy to both national and international NGOs. It threatened to cancel the licence of any organisation that did not swiftly comply.

By way of explanation, it said women were breaking Sharia law by failing to wear the hijab.

The move has sparked international outrage, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying he was deeply concerned, adding that it "will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions".

"Women are central to humanitarian operations around the world. This decision could be devastating for the Afghan people," Mr Blinken said.

It was also described as a "clear breach of humanitarian principles" by a senior United Nations official.

UN agencies have a significant presence in the country, carrying out relief and development work. An urgent meeting of the Humanitarian Country Team was planned for Sunday to respond to the news.

An employee of Save the Children told BBC News the organisation was planning to meet Taliban authorities, saying that if women were not allowed to work then some NGOs would have to close.

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It is also feared that Afghan women could be left unable to receive aid directly, if organisations are only allowed to employ men. Taliban rules prevent men from working with women.

Female employees were "essential" for reaching other women and girls, explained Melissa Cornet from Care International.

She added: "Without them, the humanitarian situation might deteriorate rapidly, in a situation where most of the country is already facing life-threatening levels of hunger."

The South Asian branch of Amnesty International described the ban as "yet another deplorable attempt to erase women from the political, social and economic spaces" of Afghanistan.

One doctor working in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and nearby remote villages said she was "sad and devastated" at the development.

She predicted "great difficulty" for women trying to access medical treatment, as they "can't fully tell their problems to men".

Meanwhile, one imam - whose identity is again being protected by the BBC - said the Taliban was "not committed to any Islamic value".

He explained: "Islam has not said that men can educate and women cannot. Or men can work and women cannot. We are confused about this decision."

A ban on women attending Afghan universities earlier this week met similar criticism. It triggered protests - including in Herat on Saturday - which were rapidly suppressed by the Taliban.

Since seizing back control of the country last year, the group has steadily restricted women's rights - despite promising its rule would be softer than the regime seen in the 1990s.

As well as the ban on female university students - now being enforced by armed guards - secondary schools for girls remain closed in most provinces.






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Three British nationals are currently being held in custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a humanitarian organisation has told the BBC.


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Paramedic Kevin Cornwall, 53, has been detained in Afghanistan

Scott Richards from the Presidium Network named one of the men as Kevin Cornwell, 53, from Middlesbrough.


Mr Richards said he and another unnamed man had been arrested on 11 January. He confirmed a third British man was also taken into custody on a different date.

The Foreign Office said it was working hard to contact the men.

The Presidium Network is a UK-based non-profit organisation that provides support to communities in crisis, representing the needs of people affected by violence or poverty to international policy makers.

Mr Richards confirmed the organisation is representing Mr Cornwell, a paramedic who works for a charity, and the second unnamed man but not the third British national.

Mr Richards said while there were "no official charges as such", the two men's detention was understood to be over a weapon in a safe in Mr Cornwell's room, which he said was stored with a licence issued by the Afghan interior ministry.

"That license is missing," he said, adding: "But we have taken several statements from witnesses who have seen the licence and affirm its existence.

"It is perfectly possible that during the search the licence was separated from the weapon and, as such, why we refer to this scenario as a probable misunderstanding."

The third man is understood to be Miles Routledge, 23, from Birmingham, who was evacuated from Afghanistan by British Armed Forces in August 2021.




Miles Routledge gives a thumbs up signal while in Kabul



Miles said previously he travelled to Afghanistan as he enjoys "dark" and "extreme" tourism


The former Loughborough University student has attracted attention by travelling to dangerous countries and posting about it on social media.

Following his extraction from the country less than two years ago, he told the BBC he was "exhausted but relieved" and thanked the British Army who had been deployed to support the evacuation of UK nationals from Kabul.

Mr Richard told Sky News: "To our knowledge and awareness, we do believe they are in good health and being well treated.


"We have no reason to believe they've been subject to any negative treatment such as torture and we're told that they are as good as can be expected in such circumstances.
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He added that there has been "no meaningful contact" between authorities and the two men Presidium is assisting.





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The group were guilty of "moral crimes" including adultery, robbery and gay sex, a Taliban official told the BBC. Footage emerged earlier this week showing members of the Taliban flogging women as dozens of villagers watched on.

This is thought to be the second time in a month the Islamist group has carried out public lashings.

The move could signal a return to the hard-line practices seen in the previous Taliban rule in the 1990s.



Omar Mansoor Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman for Logar region in eastern Afghanistan, where the lashings happened, said that all three women were freed after they were punished. Some of the men were jailed, he said, but it is not clear how many.

The men and women received between 21 and 39 lashes each. The maximum number a person can receive is 39, another Taliban official said.

Nineteen people were also punished last week in a similar flogging in Takhar province in northern Afghanistan, reports say.

The flogging in Logar province comes a week after the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, ordered judges to enforce punishments for certain crimes in line with the group's strict reading of Islamic Sharia law.

This interpretation of Islamic law includes public executions, public amputations and stoning - although exact crimes and corresponding punishments have not been officially defined by the Taliban.

The supreme leader's order is the latest sign that the Taliban is taking a tougher stance on rights and freedoms; after promising to rule more moderately when they took power last year.

During their rule from 1996-2001, the Taliban were condemned for regularly carrying out punishments in public, including floggings and executions at the national stadium in Kabul.

The government also vowed that they would not repeat the brutal repression of women; but since the group's return to rule women's freedoms have been severely curbed and a number of women have been beaten to DEATH for demanding rights.


Alex Crawford makes contact with the informal networks of women’s resistance groups struggling to maintain their basic human rights, their freedom and their identity in Afghanistan.

This is the Sky News documentary series where special correspondent Alex Crawford looks at the fight for women’s rights in the world’s most hostile environments.


Warning: Contains Footage of Malnourished Children.








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US President Joe Biden's administration has blamed its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump, in a new report.


BBC 7 APR 2023






A 12-page summary of the report says Mr Biden was "severely constrained" by Mr Trump's decisions, including a 2020 deal with the Taliban to end the war.

But the report also acknowledges that the government should have begun the evacuation of civilians earlier.

Mr Trump responded that the White House was playing a "disinformation game".

The deadly pull-out in August 2021 ended America's longest war.




Thirteen US soldiers and nearly 200 Afghans were killed as US troops scrambled to evacuate more than 120,000 people in a matter of days.

A review of decisions and actions leading up to the withdrawal, conducted by the State Department and the Pentagon, was sent privately to Congress on Thursday.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives, who are investigating the pull-out, had been demanding to see the report for weeks.

The document remains confidential, but a summary of its conclusions - put together by the White House National Security Council with input from President Biden himself - has been made available to the public.

When the Afghan government collapsed, there were desperate scenes at Kabul airport as huge crowds tried to flee the Taliban.

On 26 August, an attack at the airport by two suicide bombers killed 170 Afghans and 13 US soldiers.
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US Marine to Congress in March on Afghan pull-out: "There was an inexcusable lack of accountability"

The US carried out a drone strike in Kabul days later, saying it had targeted a suicide bomber, only to admit that the missile had killed 10 civilians, including seven children.

British troops were also involved in the withdrawal, which Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said at the time had put the UK "in a very difficult position".


On Thursday, President Biden's national security spokesman, John Kirby, blamed the chaos on a depleted operation in Afghanistan inherited from the Trump administration.

The report refers to "neglect - and in some cases deliberate degradation" by the Trump administration.

Mr Kirby said that phrase refers to the agreement the former president had struck with the insurgents a year earlier in Qatar to end the war, as well as the drawdown of US troops during Mr Trump's tenure, the freeing of thousands of Taliban prisoners and the hollowing out of the visa program used to evacuate Afghan allies.

"Transitions matter," said Mr Kirby, as he presented a summary of the report. "That's the first lesson learned here. And the incoming administration wasn't afforded much of one."

Mr Trump shot back on social media within hours of the report's release, accusing "Morons in the White House" of playing "a new disinformation game - Blame "TRUMP" for their grossly incompetent SURRENDER in Afghanistan".

Michael McCaul, the top-ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also slammed the administration for a "brazen whitewashing of their failure in Afghanistan".

The report implies that the evacuation of Americans and Afghans who had assisted with the war effort could have started sooner.

"We now prioritize earlier evacuations when faced with a degrading security situation," it says on page seven.

But the report faults the Afghan government and military for these delays, together with US military and intelligence community assessments.

Mr Kirby said that Mr Biden had "acted on the best military judgment and the best assessments from the intelligence community" but "some of those assessments turned out to be wrong".

He refused to say if the president regretted how the withdrawal was carried out, adding: "For all this talk of chaos, I just didn't see it."

Following the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration received searing criticism at home and abroad. Many expressed anger over the abandonment of Afghans and of US weaponry.

Some lessons had been learned from the end of the war in Afghanistan, especially around the failure to predict the sudden collapse of the Afghan government, Mr Kirby said.

He added this had influenced the US policy of supporting Ukraine ahead of Russia's invasion.

At a heated White House press briefing, Mr Kirby was forced to defend the timing of the release just ahead of a holiday weekend in the US.

Pushed on whether any officials involved with the withdrawal would be removed from their posts as a result of the report, Mr Kirby said its purpose "is not accountability".




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Afghan evacuees Burhan, Narcis and Sepeh....


Many terrible things happened during the evacuation of Kabul, but one piece of footage will live long in the memory. Captured in shaky mobile phone footage, desperate Afghans clung to the undercarriage of a US military plane as it took off from the airport.


Within seconds, the first body fell. “And another one. And another one,” murmurs someone behind the camera, as they keep falling.

We have seen news footage from those days in August 2021, after the US announced its withdrawal and the Taliban advanced on the capital. A BBC/HBO documentary last year, Escape from Kabul Airport, told the story through the eyes of Marines.



But Evacuation (Channel 4) gives us the perspective of British military personnel, including the build-up to the operation. It is an excellent film, in which the contributors speak with honesty and clarity about an experience that clearly left an indelible mark. Afghan evacuees also share their nightmarish experiences.

A situation that began with relative order – British passport holders and Afghan interpreters being told to report to a hotel before boarding a flight out – soon turned to chaos as thousands surrounded the airport and the Taliban got within 100 metres of the British HQ.

Diana (only first names were used here), a squadron leader with the RAF Police who had been sent out with a young team to plan the evacuation, surveyed the scene as Taliban gunfire rang out. “We are completely and utterly surrounded. The airfield is denied… there is nowhere to go. I really thought, ‘I may not be going home.’”


With vivid recall, they described the moment that the crowds broke through the perimeter, many carrying babies and toddlers.

Fahim, a private with the Parachute Regiment and someone who was born in Afghanistan, said: “I understood every single scream. ‘Help me.’ ‘I’m going to die.’” Their fear of the Taliban was enough to make some of them climb onto that plane. Seeing hardened soldiers cry will always bring you up short.

Mark, whose job was to fly the C-17s, became emotional as he described the sight of two girls running over to the plane. “In the midst of all of this… they were dancing. Two little girls in matching outfits.” Calvin, an RAF wing commander, teared up when he recounted the decision he made to send more aircraft to Kabul, knowing how far the situation had deteriorated. “I sent for the next plane and the next crew to go off and do something that I know they might not come back from,” he said. “But we weren’t going to stop.”




The servicemen and women had to make awful choices. They deserve respect not just for risking their lives, but for speaking so candidly.








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Some of the commandos from Triples units, pictured training with British troops, are now in hiding in Afghanistan





British and Afghan Special Forces fought together in Afghanistan.


UK Special Forces blocked Afghan troops they had fought alongside from relocating to the UK after the Taliban seized power, BBC Panorama can reveal.



Leaked documents show special forces rejected applications despite some containing compelling evidence of service alongside the British military.

Afghan commandos accompanied British special forces on some of the most dangerous missions of the conflict.

The Ministry of Defence said it was conducting an independent review.


When the Taliban swept to power in August 2021, members of Afghan Special Forces units CF 333 and ATF 444 - known as the "Triples" - were among the groups most at risk of reprisal, having supported UK Special Forces in their fight against the Taliban.

They were eligible to apply for resettlement to the UK under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) scheme, but hundreds had their applications rejected. Dozens have reportedly been beaten, tortured, or killed by the Taliban since.

The Armed Forces Minister, James Heappey, has now announced a review of about 2,000 applications after admitting that the decision-making process behind some rejections was "not robust".

The documents seen by Panorama include a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) document showing that since at least 2023 all Triples applications reaching a basic threshold were sent to UK Special Forces for approval or denial of sponsorship.

The SOP document, which was obtained by the investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports and shared with Panorama, shows that if UK Special Forces denied sponsorship, the applicant was automatically deemed ineligible and a rejection letter was sent out.

Panorama has also seen internal Ministry of Defence emails in which civil servants administering the relocation scheme describe being unable to challenge special forces' rejections, even when they believed there was a strong case for resettlement.

Former members of the SAS, the army's elite special forces regiment, have now told Panorama that they believe the veto outlined in the SOP document represents a clear conflict of interest for UK Special Forces.

The veto gave special forces decision-making power over applications at a time when a public inquiry in the UK was investigating allegations that SAS soldiers had committed war crimes on operations in Afghanistan where the Triples units were present.

The public inquiry has the power to compel witnesses who are in the UK, but not non-UK nationals who are overseas. If the Afghan Special Forces members were in the UK they could be asked to provide potentially significant evidence.

"It's a clear conflict of interest," said one former UK Special Forces officer.

"At a time when certain actions by UK Special Forces are under investigation by a public inquiry, their headquarters also had the power to prevent former Afghan Special Forces colleagues and potential witnesses to these actions from getting safely to the UK."

Another former UK Special Forces officer who spoke to the BBC said: "At best it's not appropriate, at worst it looks like they're trying to cover their tracks."

A spokesperson for the public inquiry team told Panorama that it could not comment on specific witnesses but was "aware of the recent press articles about the Triples" and would "continue to ask anyone with relevant information to come forward".

Panorama has spoken to former members of the Triples who had their relocation applications rejected in 2023 and say they witnessed or reported what appeared to them to be war crimes committed by UK Special Forces.



We have also seen the documents submitted by two former Triples officers along with their applications to the Arap scheme. They include:

An official invitation to SAS headquarters in Hereford to give a talk about the Triples
Letters from the British embassy regarding pay
Photographs with two directors of UK Special Forces and a British ambassador
Photographs with Gen David Petraeus, commander of the Nato coalition and all US forces in Afghanistan
A letter from a British officer describing an applicant as part of the "UK mentored Afghan SF" unit
Previous visas to enter the UK


The officers behind these applications were both denied entry to the UK.



They told Panorama they are now in hiding in Afghanistan, moving from house to house, unable to stay with their families or to work.

One said he had been interrogated and beaten by the Taliban before he went on the run, the other said he had escaped first but that he heard the Taliban had gone to his home looking for him.

"I'm living in a very bad situation. I am in hiding and mostly my family can't live together and we cannot go out and we cannot work," he said.

"I was sure that my British colleagues and friends, who we worked for several years alongside, would help me to evacuate to safety. Now I feel that the sacrifices I made have been forgotten.

"I feel I have been left alone in the midst of hell."

Both officers worked on SAS operations which are now under scrutiny by the public inquiry.

One made a number of complaints to the British military at the time of those operations. He alleged that the SAS had committed war crimes, and even withdrew his men from their supporting role in SAS operations in protest at what he alleged were extrajudicial killings of Afghan civilians.






That move set off a crisis within UK Special Forces, forcing senior British officers to attempt to defuse the situation and bring the Afghan partner units back on side.






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