Nadia Nadim was raised in Afghanistan until her father, an Afghan National Army general, was executed by the Taliban in 2000. Months later, when she was 11 years old, her family escaped the country in the middle of the night. They were smuggled out of Afghanistan in the back of a truck on a route … Read more
White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended President Biden on Friday, one day after he said he rejected a report by military investigators which criticized his administration’s handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Army probe, which was first reported by the Washington Post, concluded that the White House was too late in responding … Read more
Former BBC colleagues of British journalist Andrew North have expressed their concerns after claims that he had been kidnapped by the Taliban. (Andrew North/Twitter) the Taliban have kidnapped nine Westerners, including the former BBC journalist Andrew North, Afghanistan’s former vice president Amrullah Saleh has claimed. Andrew North is believed to be working for the United … Read more
tens of thousands Afghans who worked for the US government left behind in Afghanistan because the Biden administration failed to properly plan a large-scale evacuation, according to a forthcoming report by Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “From August 15 to 31, the United States completed its largest air evacuation. However, this evacuation was … Read more
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