The former captain of the Afghan women’s soccer team has urged players to delete social media, erase public identities and burn their kits for safety’s sake now that the country is again under Taliban rule. Copenhagen-based Khalida Popal told Reuters in a video interview on Wednesday that the militants had killed, raped and stoned women…
Former Afghan Women’s Captain Tells Players to Burn Kits, Delete Photos
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Takes Refuge in UAE: Officials
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani is currently residing in the United Arab Emirates, officials of the Gulf nation confirmed on Wednesday. “The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,” the UAE ministry of foreign affairs said…
America’s Afghanistan Disaster Didn’t Have to Happen
Commentary In the first two weeks of August, America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan became a humiliating rout. Make no mistake, the United States has suffered a major diplomatic and psychological defeat that will have resonance throughout the world. Understand that I think that since 9/11, America’s essential mission in Afghanistan has been what I call Guard…
Videos, Photos Reveal Taliban Violence Across Afghanistan
Reports, videos, and photos have surfaced on Wednesday exposing alleged barbaric behavior from Taliban members, contradicting claims made by top officials that they will respect the rights of the people and will not commit reprisal killings. A photographer with the Los Angeles Times captured photos around the Kabul airport, where throngs of people have gathered in…
Biden’s Dithering Doomed Afghanis
Commentary For months, President Joe Biden has opened the borders to Hispanic illegals, but he has turned a deaf ear to our Afghan allies desperate to get to America. Some 20,000 pro-American Afghanis and their families are in danger of being killed by the Taliban because Biden refused to speed up the bureaucratic, 14-step visa…
NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Aug. 18)
The State Department is trying to speed up evacuations of Americans and Afghan allies. We hear from a retired general and a foreign policy expert. And we hear reactions from Afghans around the world, as they cope with their home country coming under Taliban rule. Some fear for the lives of their family members, while…
Afghan Central Bank’s $10 Billion Stash Not All Within Reach of Taliban
LONDON/WASHINGTON—The insurgent Taliban took over Afghanistan with astonishing speed, but it appears unlikely that it will prove equally as fast in gaining control of most of the Afghan central bank’s roughly $10 billion in assets. The country’s central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), is thought to hold foreign currency, gold, and other treasures in its…
Human Remains Found in US Military Plane’s Wheel After Leaving Kabul: Air Force
The U.S. Air Force is investigating the lead-up to an incident earlier this week involving an American military aircraft that departed a Kabul airport with civilians hanging onto its landing gear who fell to their deaths. A statement from the Air Force confirmed that human remains were discovered on the C-17 military plane, and it…
Taliban Violently Break Up Protest in Afghanistan as Thousands Try to Flee Kabul
Taliban terrorists fired at a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday as a stampede at a gate to the airport in Kabul left another 17 injured. Dozens of people gathered in the eastern city of Jalalabad to raise the national flag a day before Afghanistan’s Independence Day, which commemorates the end of British rule in…
Facebook Continues Ban on Taliban Content, Twitter Permits Spokesmen Accounts
August 18, 2021
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Facebook has said that it will maintain its ban of pro-Taliban content under “U.S. law,” and that it was blocking WhatsApp accounts linked to the terrorist group, after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on Sunday. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and we have banned them from our services…
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