Taliban assault UN office

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 01, 2021 12:55 am

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.

HERAT: An Afghan police guard was killed on Friday when a United Nations compound came under attack in this city, officials said, as fighting raged between government forces and the Taliban on the outskirts of the western city.

COMING TO US Josh Habib (far left), a 53-year-old translator for the US Marines, speaks with Afghan villagers and two Marines in the Nawa district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province on July 29, 2021. More than 200 Afghans have arrived in the US as part of their privilege in working as interpreters during the nearly 20-year US presence in Afghanistan. AP PHOTO

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