Taliban promise amnesty and freedoms for women and media – BBC News
Taliban leaders, who’ve never been seen in public before, have been making their first statements on Afghan soil, to a world shocked by their lightning seizure of power. They hoped to calm a worried nation and international community, with assurances…
Taliban seize power in Afghanistan as President flees country – BBC News
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…
US commander warns of worse violence in Afghanistan when American troops leave – BBC News
America’s longest-serving commander in Afghanistan says he expects Taliban violence to get worse, as US-led forces withdraw from the country over the coming months. President Biden has said that all US troops will leave the country by September 2021, ending…
Dozens of schoolgirls killed in huge bomb attack in Afghan capital – BBC News
Dozens of schoolgirls, have been killed and many more injured in a bomb and mortar attack outside a girls’ secondary school in the Afghan capital Kabul. The girls had just finished their classes and were streaming out of the gates…