Taliban marks three years of rule and sharia law in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters The Taliban’s supreme spiritual leader said the group had transformed Afghanistan into an Islamic sharia-based country, as the former insurgents marked three years of rule with a huge military parade at the Bagram Air Base near Kabul. “The system is Islamic and sharia-based, sharia is being implemented,” said supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, […]
“What was the point?” Afghans rue decades of war as US quits Bagram
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters As American troops left their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, marking a symbolic end to the longest war in US history, locals living in the shadow of the base and in nearby Kabul were left ruing the past and bracing for what comes next. Violence has been raging throughout Afghanistan […]