Taliban Targeting Door To Door Visits, Warns UN Reporters

Afghanistan’s new rulers, the Taliban, are reportedly going house-to-house searching for opponents and their families.

After toppling the government and taking over Kabul on Sunday to end two decades of war, the hardline Islamist movement’s leaders have repeatedly vowed a complete amnesty.

Women have also been assured their rights will be respected, and that the Taliban will be “positively different” from their brutal 1996-2001 rule.

But with thousands of people still trying to flee the capital aboard evacuation flights, a report for the United Nations confirmed the fears of many.