Sting in Taliban FOR the West’s Afghan allies who did not make it on to evacuation flights, today is the day the door to their tomb slides shut. As the last US planes leave Kabul, we are reduced to putting our faith in the Taliban’s proclaimed benevolence. Yet hostility to Western values is a defining […]
TALIBAN zealots pose with their weapons yesterday — telling the world they now rule Afghanistan. The chillingly symbolic snap was taken in the former British police training HQ in Kabul. On the table were a bobby’s helmet and a state trooper’s hat that had been left as gifts to police trainees by their British and […]