Afghanistan Latest News || Kabul Under The Taliban

August 15th of this year will go up in Afghan history. It is the day on which the Taliban recaptured the capital Kabul. The Islamists, who have been active in Afghanistan and partly in Pakistan since 1994, only needed a few weeks after the withdrawal of western troops to regain control of a few provinces and then the capital and thus the entire country. Now, after 20 years of relative freedom, people are threatened with the return of strict orthodox and anti-western teaching, in which only Sharia - Islamic law - applies. In the capital Kabul in particular, incredible scenes are taking place these days: people storming the airport in the hope that they will save American or European planes.

Afghan youth demonstrating against the seizure of power and being attacked by the Taliban. Women who no longer dare to go outside their front door or who have to walk through the streets fully veiled for the first time in many years.

Sebastian Kurz refuses to accept refugees: "That will not happen under my chancellorship"

Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz does not want to grant protection to any further refugees from the country despite the Taliban's takeover. "I am not of the opinion that we should take in more people in Austria, on the contrary," Kurz said in the summer talk with the television station Puls 4. The interview will be broadcast in the evening. With currently over 40,000 Afghans, Austria is home to the second largest Afghan community in the EU in terms of its own population. He consistently ruled out the admission of further Afghans. "That won't happen under my chancellorship," said Kurz. He also referred to the "particularly difficult integration" of the population group. "Taking in people who cannot then be integrated is a huge problem for us as a country," said Kurz.

Islamic State threatens Kabul airport: US

The United States has warned its citizens to refrain from going to Kabul airport as there could be an attack by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan. On Saturday, the United States issued a security alert and told its citizens living in Kabul to stay away from the airport because of security threats at its gates. The warning states that only representatives of the US government who have been asked by the US to go there individually should travel. US officials say they are reviewing developments in Kabul and considering alternative routes. The United States did not provide further details on the threat of a possible Islamic State attack on Kabul Airport, and the group did not publicly threaten attacks in Kabul. It should be noted that this message of the United States to its citizens has come to light at a time when there is a huge rush of people outside the terminal of Kabul Airport and such reports are also being received that many people have been injured in this stampede. Thousands of Afghans want to leave the country after the Taliban take over.

Tony Blair: West has abandoned Afghanistan

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused the West of abandoning Afghanistan. "Leaving Afghanistan and its people alone is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours," writes Blair in a post posted on his institute's website on Saturday. During Blair's tenure, Great Britain went to the US side in the war in Afghanistan. In the years that followed, many mistakes happened, writes Blair. But the motives for the withdrawal of troops from the country are idiotic . "We did this following an idiotic political slogan about ending the Forever Wars - as if our 2021 streak was even remotely comparable to our streak 20 or ten years ago." US President Joe Biden had used the term Forever Wars (translated roughly: Eternal Wars) several times during the election campaign last year.

Clarissa Ward and her team, evacuated from Kabul: "We are the lucky ones"

During one of her live connections with CNN after the fall of Kabul, Clarissa Ward said that she had put on the chador to "adopt a low profile" that would allow her to continue reporting from the field "without becoming the news", because the story He was in the despair of the thousands of Afghans terrified by the Taliban's victory and its aftermath. It did not succeed. The reporter has involuntarily transformed into a symbol and her chronicles have gone viral on social networks, but her work has been interrupted: she has had to leave the country and was evacuated to Qatar last night. 

"I just landed in Doha with the team and almost 300 Afghan evacuees. Many thanks to all of you for your support and concern and to the US Air Force for taking us to Qatar and welcoming us. We are the lucky ones, " Ward posted this morning. on his Twitter account.

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