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Even as the U.S. and its allies continued the scramble to evacuate citizens and their Afghan associates from Kabul, a confidential United Nations assessment is warning that the Taliban are intensifying efforts to hunt down Afghans who worked with American and NATO forces over the past two decades and that the militants have threatened to kill or arrest their family members if the people being sought cannot be found.

Columns of Afghan soldiers in armoured vehicles and pickup trucks sped through the desert to reach Iran. Military pilots flew low and fast to the safety of Uzbekistan's mountains.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

James Heappey, the UK armed forces minister, admitted today that Britain will not evacuate everyone it has promised to help from Afghanistan before the air bridge at Kabul airport closes.

A threat assessment drafted for the UN cited multiple reports that the Taliban had a list of people and their locations.

After the swift takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban amid a US and NATO troop withdrawal, the government in Kabul collapsed, with president Ashraf Ghani fleeing the...

But tens of thousands of other Afghan grunts, commandos and spies who fought to the end, despite the talk in Washington that the Afghan forces simply gave up, have been left behind. They are now on the run, hiding and hunted by the Taliban.

UN document reveals Taliban fighters are going door to door threatening to take family members hostage unless targets surrender themselves

Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer and Fergus Hunter15:38, Jun 07 2021 Sydney Morning Herald Some members of the Aussie Cartel: Hakan Ayik (centre), Mark Buddle (left) and Angelo Pandeli. Australia’s most dangerous and wanted crime bosses have organised themselves into a cartel earning an estimated A$1.5 billion (NZ$1.6 billion) a year by smuggling drugs past the nation’s borders with the help of corrupt government officials and border insiders, the nations peak criminal intelligence agency believes...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images Qantas said it was "disturbed" by claims that some staff may have been involved in organised crime following an Australian media report that gangs had "infiltrated" the airline. It said agencies believe organised crime groups had infiltrated Qantas to facilitate illegal activities. In a statement Qantas said authorities had not raised any concerns. The BBC approached Australian authorities for comment on the report. The Nine newspapers said the c...

Nine men drawn from Australian bikie gangs, Asian triads and Middle Eastern crime syndicates make up what criminal intelligence authorities have called the ‘Aussie Cartel’.