KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban official said the group hoisted their flag at Afghanistan’s palace at a brief ceremony on Saturday – the same day the US and the rest of the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the September 11 uprising.
The massacre comes just weeks after a US coup left Afghanistan and returned to the control of the Taliban, a group that defended the al-Qaida-based terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden.
New Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund hoisted the flag at 11 a.m. to mark the inauguration of the government by 33 members of the Taliban government, said Ahmadullahh Muttaqi, a senior media official at the group’s cultural committee.
Earlier, a Taliban official said a black and white religious flag was first hoisted at the palace on Friday. The terrorist group also erected a sign at the entrance to the US embassy.
The US is holding a 9/11 celebration with memorials at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a section near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban shot dead brother of Amrullah Saleh, the second president of Afghanistan, and his driver north of Panjshir, Saleh’s nephew said on Saturday.
Shuresh Saleh said his uncle Rohullah Azizi was going somewhere in a car on Thursday when Taliban militants stopped him at a checkpoint. “As far as we are concerned, the Taliban have shot him and his driver at a checkpoint.” he said.
The message left by a Taliban spokesman on Saturday was not immediately returned.
Shuresh Saleh says it is not clear where his uncle, a Taliban militant, goes to where the Taliban captured him. He also said that phones are not working in the area.
Amrullah Saleh led an anti-Taliban militant group in Panjshir, the last stronghold of Afghanistan.
Video footage shows the Taliban opening up the Taliban militants in Panjshir who had detained them.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – More than 250 foreign nationals have left Afghanistan in the past three days, said Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington’s special envoy and ally of a coalition often criticized by the Taliban.
The treaty, signed last year, provided an opportunity for the US and NATO forces to withdraw, but their opponents were too rich for Islam.
In a series of tweets Khalilzad praised all in the Middle East State of Qatar, whose airlines operate the aircraft and “the Taliban alliance on this important task,” on the migration of foreign nationals from Afghanistan.
“We will continue to work with the government of Qatar, the Taliban, and others to ensure that our citizens, other foreign nationals, and the Afghan people who want to leave,” Khalilzad sent a statement.
However, hundreds of Afghan people, including US citizens and green card holders, went missing in northern Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif waiting for their release but were stopped by Taliban authorities demanding travel documents.