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Taliban security forces broke up the protest by firing into the air and detained Wahid Ahmadi, a TOLOnews cameraman. [27] On the same day, 200 people protested in Herat. [28] The Taliban whipped protesters and shot live ammunition into the air to break up the protests. [29] Two [28] or three [29] people were shot dead in the Herat protest. [28]
The local Taliban leadership, including the governor and police chief, fled the city. The revolt happened shortly after the Taliban Deputy Defense Minister Mullah Fazel Mazloom arrested Makhdoom Alem, a senior Uzbek Taliban commander in Mazar-i-Sharif on January 12. The Taliban central leadership responded quickly to the revolt in Maymana ...
The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war. The insurgents stormed across the country, capturing ...
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
The reaction inside the United States — and around the world as the Taliban take over Afghanistan. More than half a dozen countries who joined the United States' invasion 20 years ago are also ...
In October 2001, the U.S. and its allies invaded Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to hand over the Al Qaeda leader and author of 9/11. By December, the Taliban had surrendered control of the ...
9 January – Faizullah Jalal, a professor at Kabul University and a critic of the Taliban, is arrested by the new Government of Afghanistan. [6] [7] 13 January – The 2022 Taliban dissension begins. [8] 16 January – Last of the 2021–2022 Afghan protests; 17 January – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Badghis Province, killing at least ...
In the video provided by Al Jazeera, armed men are seen walking the halls and sitting in the chair of President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country hours earlier. Video shows Taliban celebrating ...