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Meet the daring South African pilot who saved displaced Afghan people
Captain Neil Steyl, from Cape Town, and his crew from Safe Air Company have been based at Kulob for a month, assisting the Americans with evacuating both people and equipment.
Most South Africans in Afghanistan have been evacuated
‘The Taliban also registered the serial numbers of their weapons and just asked them not to move around in the streets while armed but stay within the compound until everything…
Biden defends US pullout from Afghanistan despite panic in Kabul
In his first public appearance since the Islamist insurgents seized control of the country at the weekend, Biden admitted the Taliban advance had unfolded more quickly than…
Taliban in control of Afghanistan, panic in Kabul
Victorious Taliban fighters patrolled Kabul on Monday after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee…
Afghan Taliban announce death of Haqqani network founder
Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA asset and received a personal visit from US congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped secure arms for the mujahideen
‘We are in danger’: French Army translators live in fear of the Taliban
The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already
South Africans in the crossfire: Why I won’t leave Kabul
South African Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban, but the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.
South African pastor killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing
A South African pastor and his two teenage children are the latest casualties of a spate of attacks by the Taliban across Afghanistan.
South Africans killed in attack on Kabul compound
The South African head of an organisation, his son and daughter, and one Afghan were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound for foreigners in Kabul.
Kabul prison filled with women accused of ‘moral crimes’
More than two-thirds of the inmates at the Badam Bagh prison are serving sentences for leaving their husbands or refusing arranged marriages.
Afghanistan claims control of Kabul after Taliban attacks
Afghanistan says its regained control of Kabul, killing all the Taliban militants who launched one of the biggest attacks on the city in a decade.
Embassy in Greece for Afghan asylum seekers
Afghanistan will open an embassy in Greece to help thousands of Afghan asylum seekers stranded while seeking a better life in Europe.
Government report exposes Bagram Prison torture
Inmates in Afghanistan’s US-run Bagram Prison have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, according to a government report.
Kabul suicide bomb kills 13 US troops
A car bomber killed 13 American troops in Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack against the Nato-led force in 10 years of war.
British teachers caught up in Kabul attack
The UK’s PM says a "cowardly" attack on a British cultural centre in Kabul on Friday will not stop the country’s "vital work" in Afghanistan.