Stories from South Asia
Protests marking Afghanistan’s independence day were the scenes of bloodshed on Thursday as Taliban fighters shot at demonstrators in Kabul. Eyewitnesses to the shootings in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a diplomatic district in the Afghan capital, and Zanbaq Square said over […]
It has taken only three days to completely transform the lives of women in Kabul. The mere act of stepping out of their homes has become an almost insurmountable challenge, they told The National. Since the Taliban captured the Afghan capital on Sunday, […]
Members of the Taliban opened fire on a group of protesters on Wednesday in the provinces of Khost and Nangarhar, witnesses said. Crowds of people in the provinces attempted to hoist the Afghan flag. The Taliban have replaced the official flag of Afghanistan with the white […]