Afghan Protests Spread to Kabul in Early Challenge to Taliban

Afghan Protests Spread to Kabul in Early Challenge to Taliban
People carry Afghan flags as they take part in an anti-Taliban protest in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Aug. 18, 2021 in this screen grab taken from a video. Pajhwok Afghan News/Handout via Reuters
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KABUL—Protests against the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan spread to more cities on Thursday, including the capital Kabul, and a witness said several people were killed when the terrorists fired on a crowd in Asadabad in the eastern province of Kunar.

“Our flag, our identity,” a crowd of men and women waving black, red, and green national flags shouted in Kabul, a video posted on social media showed, on the day Afghanistan celebrates independence from British control in 1919.