![]() (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Tensions are high as the Taliban advance on the capital city after taking Herat and the country's second-largest city Kandahar. ![]() KABUL, AFGANISTAN - AUGUST 13 : Displaced Afghan women and children from Kunduz are seen at a mosque that is sheltering them on Augin Kabul, Afghanistan. ![]() Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Tuesday promised that there would be no retribution against those who had opposed the Taliban in the past. Taliban leaders have been been saying for days that ordinary Afghans are not in danger now that they’ve taken over the country, urging government employees to return to work. The lighter presence of the Taliban in the streets of the Afghan capital on Wednesday was somewhat in line with the group’s push to paint a new, less intimidating picture of themselves. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images) Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty ImagesĪfghans watch nervously as Taliban regime takes shape, and US and its allies continue frantic exit TOPSHOT - A US soldier (C) point his gun towards an Afghan passenger at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.
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