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Masoud Andarabi, Afghanistan’s former interior minister, sacked by President Ashraf Ghani in March

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After an Islamic State affiliate’s suicide attack that killed more than 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday.... Advertisement Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the Sunday airstrike successful and said the vehicle carried multiple bombers.U.S. Navy Capt.... “ Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substan

28, 2021 by Britain's Ministry of Defence( MoD) showing UK military personnel boarding a A400M aircraft departing Kabul, Afghanistan.... The attack comes as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul's international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago.... After an Islamic State affiliate's suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its secur

AN AFGHAN rapper and a rock band who sang anti-Taliban hits are hiding for their lives-– after the militants murdered a-popular folk singer. Guitarist Faisal, 26, sang about kissing girls round the back of the mosque and told fans: “ Don’t be scared of the-Taliban.” 1 The hipster musician fled his home after gunmen arrived on his doorstep and beat his brother The hipster musician fled his home after gunmen arrived on his doorstep and beat his brother.... He told The Sun from a safe house: “ If

Open this photo in gallery A house in Kabul, Afghanistan that was damaged after a U.S. drone strike blew up a vehicle carrying “ multiple suicide bombers ” from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate on Aug.... Witnesses to the drone strike said it targeted two cars parked in a residential building near the airport, killing and wounding several civilians.... The official said there was an initial explosion caused by the missile, followed by a much larger fireball, believed to be the result of t

DESPERATE Afghan families have been forced to wade through sewage in a bid to escape the chaos of Kabul as children are killed in the carnage. Stuart Ramsay, Sky's longest serving foreign correspondent, has described the horrific scenes outside Kabul airport as troops dash to save thousands of foreign nationals and Afghan allies before the August 31 deadline.... 6 Thousands of people are waiting in a holding pen next to a sewage canal Credit: Reuters 6 People pictured wading through the sewage

WASHINGTON: Presi-dent Joe Biden said on Friday he could not guarantee the final outcome of the emergency evacuation from Kabul’s airport, calling it one of the most “ difficult ” airlift operations ever.... The president is counting on cooperation from the Taliban, who ousted the Kabul government a week ago as US forces withdrew, plunging Biden into his biggest foreign policy crisis.... Isolated signs of opposition to the Taliban emerge in parts of the country Biden said US officials were in

KABUL — The Afghan artist, driven by past memory, buried 15 paintings — all works of modern art depicting women — in a compound three days after the Taliban entered the capital, he said.A well-known filmmaker carried the same fear.... They included two Bibles, translated into Dari and Pashto.“ If the Taliban fighters find this, they will punish me, ” he explained, speaking on the condition of anonymity for his security. And so goes the cultural unraveling of Afghanistan’s capital six weeks into