Protests against Afghan Taliban spread in early signs of resistance
Indians prepare to board an Indian military aircraft at the airport in Kabul on August 17, 2021. They were evacuated after the Taliban's stunning takeover of Afghanistan. PHOTO | AFP
Flag-waving protesters took to the streets of more Afghan cities on Thursday as popular opposition to the Taliban spread, and a witness said several people were killed when the militants fired on a crowd in Asadabad in the east.
"Our flag, our identity," a crowd of men and women waving black, red and green national flags shouted in the capital Kabul, a video clip posted on social media showed, on the day Afghanistan celebrates independence from British control in 1919.
