Afghanistan News highlights: US recognising Taliban govt will depend entirely on what the latter does, says Antony Blinken
The Taliban has announced the top members of their government in Afghanistan. Chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a press conference that the new government would be an interim one, and that Taliban veteran Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund would serve as its new acting prime minister. The Taliban's secretive supreme leader told the newly appointed government to uphold sharia law. Stay tuned for updates.
From New Delhi to New York, Afghan diplomats reject Taliban’s Emirate, keep tricolour flying high
Afghan diplomats from New Delhi to New York have refused to pledge allegiance to the government the Taliban announced in Kabul.
A day after the Taliban announced its government in Kabul, the red-green-black national flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan continued to flutter high at its embassy in Chanakyapuri New Delhi as the diplomats of the war-torn nation refused to pledge allegiance to the emirate the militants sought to reinstate.
Taliban legitimacy will have to be 'earned': US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday the Taliban will have to earn legitimacy from the world after naming a government with figures wanted by US law enforcement.
Afghanistan's last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover
The last member of Afghanistan's Jewish community has left the country.
Zebulon Simentov, who lived in a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul, kept kosher and prayed in Hebrew, endured decades of war as the country's centuries-old Jewish community rapidly dwindled. But the Taliban takeover last month seems to have been the last straw.
Taliban has now taken over the Norwegian Embassy in Kabul. Say they will return it to us later. But first wine bottles are to be smashed and childrens\u2019 books destroyed. Guns apparently less dangerous. Foto: Aftenposten, Norway pic.twitter.com/0zWmJXmQeX