By Paul Kerley & Lucia Blasco BBC News Several thousand anti-Taliban fighters are reported to be holding out against the Taliban in a remote valley with a narrow entrance – little more than 30 miles or so from the capital Kabul. It’s not the first time the dramatic and imposing Panjshir Valley has been a […]
A number of nations say there is a high threat of a terrorist attack at Kabul airport and have warned their citizens not to travel there. Australia, the US and UK have issued alerts to their citizens. Those already outside the airport are advised to leave the area immediately. More than 82,000 have been airlifted […]
Working women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told reporters. “It’s a very temporary procedure,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. The Taliban, which enforced a strict version of Islamic law when they ran Afghanistan before 2001, retook full control of the country […]
An anti-Taliban resistance group in Afghanistan says it has thousands of people ready to fight. Ali Nazary, head of foreign relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), told the BBC they want to pursue peaceful negotiations. But, he added, “if this fails… then we’re not going to accept any sort of aggression”. Meanwhile, […]
A week after the Taliban takeover of the country, many Afghans are uncertain of what it will mean for their lives and their safety. Here, a young female student shares her fears about her future. The BBC is not identifying her to protect her safety. “It is the seventh day since the country collapsed, the […]
War in Afghanistan (2001-present) The US has enlisted commercial planes to help with the evacuation of people from Afghanistan. A Pentagon statement said the 18 aircraft would not fly to Kabul, but would instead help move people transiting in third countries. Many thousands of Afghans are crowded outside Kabul airport, desperate to flee the […]
In Kabul, university students should be getting ready for the start of a new term. Instead, many are destroying evidence of their previous lives as the Taliban patrol the streets outside. For one student – a woman, and a member of the persecuted Hazara minority, which in recent years has faced abductions and killings at […]
The Taliban recently “massacred” and brutally tortured several members of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan, says human rights group Amnesty International. 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 […]
US President Joe Biden says US troops may stay in Afghanistan beyond his planned 31 August withdrawal date to help evacuate Americans. There have been chaotic scenes at Kabul Airport as foreign powers seek to get their citizens home. President Biden again defended his handling of Afghanistan, where the Taliban have capitalised on the US […]
By Sarah Atiq BBC News, Pakistani-Afghan border On the surface, it almost looks normal on this part of the Pakistani-Afghan border. But a closer look would show how much things have changed. The tricolour flag of the Republic of Afghanistan has been replaced with the white flag of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan, and in […]
