A Taliban leader has angrily lashed out at Prince Harry’s assertions in his new bombshell book Spare that he killed 25 Taliban fighters who he regarded as “chess pieces” to be taken off the board. Annas Haqqani took to Twitter today in
A number of revelations from the book have already been seen after The Guardian obtained a copy of the memoir and wrote about its most shocking claims. The Duke of Sussex has now been branded “stupid” for including his kill count while
The Duke of Sussex, who claimed to kill 25 Taliban fighters, said he did not view the deceased fighters as human but as chess pieces being removed from the board. Colonel Kemp said: “The suggestion that the British Army trains its soldiers
Prince Harry has said he did not consider those he killed as people, but as chess pieces he had removed from the board. According to the Telegraph, he said the number did not fill him with satisfaction, “but nor does it embarass”
A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding “several” people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the regional affiliate of
The United Nations condemned the decision by the Taliban this week to bar women from working with humanitarian aid groups or attending university and threatened to suspend critical aid programs. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Thursday demanded the ban
A video has emerged showing women in the city of Herat, in western Afghanistan, being sprayed with water cannons at a protest against the Taliban’s banning of female students from the country’s universities. The footage captures the moment a woman is blown
The Taliban-controlled Afghanistan government has instructed all local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stop allowing women to come to work. The announcement, which came in a letter from the economy ministry and confirmed by spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said the female employees
A senior official within the Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women in Afghanistan from attending universities, claiming they routinely violated dress codes and were studying subjects that ran contrary to Islam. Nida Mohammad Nadim, the Taliban-led government’s minister of
Saudi Arabia and Qatar urged the Taliban on Wednesday to reverse its ban on girls receiving a university education in Afghanistan. In a Wednesday statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said it expresses “surprise” and “regret” at the Taliban-led government’s decision. “The Ministry