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Aug 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Taliban killed nine former Afghan security forces after they surrendered and handed their weapons to the Taliban in Khedir district of Afghanistan’s Daikundi province plus two civilians, two former local officials said. A local Taliban commander declined to comment.
In a nationwide process, the Taliban demand former armed security forces hand their weapons to the Taliban. Two former local officials in Daikundi said that the former armed forces agreed to turn in their weapons in a formal process. They waited in a mosque in Khudi valley.
Aug 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
They were young and old, women and men. They were working class and professionals including doctors, journalists, athletes and tailors. But the victims shared something in common: a desire to leave their country. Our story @raghavanWaPo
Their portraits: washingtonpost.com/world/kabul-ai…
As a teenager, he fled the Taliban in 1996 to Iran but returned back to Kabul after its fall. When the Taliban entered Kabul, Ahmadi, now a journalist, "wanted to save his life,” said his friend. "He had dreams and hopes.” His body was unrecognizable.
Jul 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Taliban is on the verge taking Faizabad town of Afghanistan’s Badaghshan province. This afternoon, senior local officials took this flight and escaped to Kabul. Tonight, Faizabad could become the first provincial capital falling to the Taliban.
Without prior schedule, Bakhtar Afghan Airlines announced a flight from Faizabad to Kabul. Of course, only the richest people could afford to book a ticket out of the war.
Jul 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The United States forces left Bagram Airfield without facing justice for, in particular, wiping out an entire civilian family in Maiden Wardak of Afghanistan.
Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez, 40, lost his entire family in a U.S. airstrike in September 2018.
foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/02/afg…
In Sep. 2018, Mubarez was in his rented room in Iran when he received a phone call from his family. Amina, his wife, told him that there had been a night raid, and soldiers who spoke English, Farsi, and Pashto searched the house.
