🔴"We have heard of forced marriages, and we are afraid"
🗣️Massoumeh*, 23, humanitarian worker, Herat
"Just weeks ago, I’d leave my house in Herat in the early morning, take a shared rickshaw to my office and spend my weekends catching up with friends," Massoumeh says
❌"Today I barely venture outside. If I do, I am terrified. I cover my face and walk slowly"
🇹🇷🇮🇷"Most of my friends have fled to Turkey or Iran and I miss them," Massoumeh says
"I am alone here now. At night I lie awake, my head spinning with uncertainty and fear. I am depressed, but mostly afraid"
🔴"I haven't been back to work at the hospital since the city fell"
🗣️Khaled*, 24, doctor, Kabul
❌"I haven’t left my home for two days now.
"I’m scared to leave the house and return to work at my hospital," Khaled says
🏥"Because the hospital is understaffed, I’m worried that some patients won’t be treated," he says
🔴"If the Taliban come to our house, she will be killed"
🗣️Ali Nazeri, 38, translator, Kabul
"I used to work with an American company in Kabul where I live with my wife and daughter," Ali says
"The Taliban are already conducting house searches looking for anyone who has worked with foreigners or the government, which puts us both in danger"
"My daughter is 15 and without a doubt she will be taken too if the Taliban come here"
💍❌"We have spoken to friends and relatives around the country and know that young girls over the age of 12 are being forced into marriage"
*Some names have been changed
🔎Read the full testimonies of citizens who fear for their lives as they remain in Afghanistan here ⬇️
@Telegraph's unannounced visit to the government building now in the hands of the Taliban was a relaxed affair, @benfarmerDT writes...
🫖"The offer of tea was made with a warm welcome inside, part of a charm offensive by the Islamist leaders who until not too long ago viewed Western journalists with suspicion"
Ethnic Amhara forces have been going "door-to-door" to round up ethnic Tigrayans in the latest harrowing evidence of population cleansing in Ethiopia's blood-drenched civil war.
Witnesses told @Telegraph of forces cutting off limbs and dumping mutilated bodies into mass graves
🔴"They took her to Tekeze river and shot her," said one resident, who knew a victim well.
"Before they killed her, they removed her eyes and cut off her legs. They did not let anyone pick her body up and bury her"
The controversial new scheme is designed to reduce a surge in gun violence.
A further $200 is on offer if participants meet certain benchmarks:
📌Attending parole hearings
📌Applying for jobs
💰The pilot program, called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, will see 10 participants deemed to be at high risk of committing or being the victim of violent crime given $300 (£216) per month in gift cards to act as public safety ambassadors and stay out of trouble
Four years ago, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was languishing in a Pakistani prison after being arrested for masterminding the Taliban's brutal military campaign in Afghanistan.
📍Today he is poised to become the country's new president
The 54 year old combatant cut his teeth fighting Afghanistan's Soviet occupation.
⏳Baradar is arguably living proof of the old adage attributed to every Afghan insurgency: "You may have the watch," it goes, "but we have the time"
Two recent polls both showed 46 per cent of Americans approved of Ms Harris, with 47 per cent and 48 per cent disapproving
❌An Economist/YouGov poll found 41 per cent of voters aged 18-29 had an "unfavourable" view of Ms Harris, with only 36 per cent viewing her "favourably."