Taliban Violently Break Up Protest in Afghanistan as Thousands Try to Flee Kabul

Taliban Violently Break Up Protest in Afghanistan as Thousands Try to Flee Kabul
Taliban terrorists patrol in a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 18, 2021. Rahmat Gul/AP Photo
Zachary Stieber
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Taliban terrorists fired at a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday as a stampede at a gate to the airport in Kabul left another 17 injured.

Dozens of people gathered in the eastern city of Jalalabad to raise the national flag a day before Afghanistan’s Independence Day, which commemorates the end of British rule in 1919. They lowered the Taliban flag—a white banner with an Islamic inscription—that the militants have raised in the areas they captured.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
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Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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