Afghanistan: Taliban clams it has changed, but fear of past cruelties lives on

Newest: Taliban co-founder and de facto chief, Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday, simply days after his fighters swept to energy throughout the nation. The Taliban introduced a basic amnesty for presidency officers and ordered fighters to keep up self-discipline as an uneasy calm settled over the capital, Kabul.

America and different nations resumed navy evacuation efforts for allied Afghans and different civilians. Operations had been suspended late Monday when thousands of people swarmed the airport in Kabul in a determined bid to flee.

In an address to the nation Monday afternoon, President Biden defended his choice to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, blaming the Taliban’s takeover on the unwillingness of the Afghan military to combat the militant group and arguing that remaining within the nation was not within the U.S. nationwide curiosity.

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