A former Foreign Office diplomat suggested that out of an estimated 75,000-150,000 people who applied for evacuation under the Leave Outside the Rules scheme, fewer than 5% received assistance. Photo: Evacuees…
While the movement’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has downplayed the threat, saying this week that Islamic State had no effective presence in Afghanistan, commanders on the ground do not…
Former prisoners return to the now-abandoned US-run Bagram jail, which was notorious for ‘enhanced torture.‘ Photo: Hamza recounts the torture he endured during his imprisonment at Bagram [Agnieszka…
Photo: Screenshot: US detention centre at Bagram airbase 13 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Sky News has seen inside the detention centre where thousands of…
Speaking to Al Jazeera, acting PM Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund reiterates Taliban promise of amnesty for anyone who worked alongside the US and the gov’t it backed. Photo:…
Amid upheaval across the country, it remains unclear whether a new government will forbid music as it did 25 years ago Photo: Sitar practice at the Afghan National…
02 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Okay, on the surface it is a small thing. But here are people frantic to withdraw money -their money-…
Twelve countries are accepting US local staff, including Albania, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Ukraine, Uganda and Colombia. Photo: An Afghan girl…
Photo: Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent and the author of the memoir On All Fronts.Brent Swails/CNN 26 August 2021 | TERRY GROSS | NPR (Audio version also…
Given that someone somewhere had to authorize both the landing and the takeoff of this charter flight we are left with the feeling that we were not supposed…
It has been reported that when the US troops ‘abandoned’ the massive Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan in early July, left behind about 3.5 million items Photos: Kanika Gupta…
Photos: Pigeons fly as a policeman guards residents praying outside the Shah-e Doh Shamshira mosque during the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr in Kabul on…