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.
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‘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 calms down. Then the Taliban left.’
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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 expected
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 the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule
Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA asset and received a personal visit from US congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped secure arms for the mujahideen
The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already
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.
A South African pastor and his two teenage children are the latest casualties of a spate of attacks by the Taliban across Afghanistan.
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.
More than two-thirds of the inmates at the Badam Bagh prison are serving sentences for leaving their husbands or refusing arranged marriages.
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.
Afghanistan will open an embassy in Greece to help thousands of Afghan asylum seekers stranded while seeking a better life in Europe.
Inmates in Afghanistan’s US-run Bagram Prison have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, according to a government report.
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/ 29 October 2011
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.
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.
Worrying questions hang over a plan to start switching from Nato to local control in Afghanistan, just weeks before the process is due to start.
Justice ministry proposes that ceremonies be policed for modesty to crackdown on lavish events that put families in debt.
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/ 26 February 2010
At least 14 people were killed and 32 wounded in Taliban attacks in Kabul on Friday, the latest audacious assault in the Afghan capital.
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/ 18 January 2010
Taliban gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, launched a commando-style assault on government buildings in the centre of Kabul on Monday.
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/ 15 December 2009
A suicide bomber struck an upmarket district of Kabul on Tuesday near a hotel and guest house frequented by foreigners, killing eight people
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/ 8 September 2009
A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle outside a Nato military base at Kabul’s main airport on Tuesday killing at least two civilians.
The Taliban have warned Afghans that possessing pictures of ”unrelated women and handsome boys” was against Islamic law.
A bomb attack claimed by the Taliban killed 12 people on Monday, officials said, amid worsening security before this month’s presidential poll.
President Hamid Karzai warned the international community on Wednesday to stay clear of getting involved in governance within Afghanistan.
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/ 11 February 2009
Taliban insurgents attacked two government buildings in Kabul on Wednesday killing at least 19 people, officials said.
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/ 12 January 2009
Afghanistan will not be able to reach its goal of being free from landmines by March 2013 unless urgent funding is received, the UN said on Monday.
US-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb-makers.
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/ 26 November 2008
President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.
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/ 9 November 2008
A joint Afghan and US military investigation has concluded an air strike last week killed 37 civilians and wounded 35 more.
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/ 28 October 2008
An Afghan court sentenced a South African man to 16 years in prison for trying to board a plane at Kabul’s international airport with a bag of heroin.
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/ 26 October 2008
A South African and a Briton shot dead in Kabul were killed by one of their own guards who then committed suicide, Interior Ministry officials said.
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/ 25 October 2008
One South African and one British employee of DHL, together with an Afghan guard, were killed in a shooting in the Afghan capital on Saturday.