CNN's Ward says Kabul colleague nearly pistol-whipped

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is at the Venice Film Festival gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music (ANIM) are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.A few days after the Taliban occupied Kabul “they went to the school and smashed all the instruments,” says Mani who has been making a

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Prince William "personally intervened" to get the family of an Afghan officer out of Kabul amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, it has been reported.The 39 year old knew the former cadet from Sandhurst and heard how he was trying to get his family out of the country before the Taliban seized it. It is believed that the Duke of Cambridge asked his equerry, Naval officer Rob Nixon, to make calls on his behalf in order to help.

Manori Ravindran International EditorPaul Schrader says his movie “The Card Counter,” in which Oscar Isaac plays a former Abu Ghraib interrogator who did jail time for his actions, is “not about redoing history” but rather focusing on one soldier’s memory — a cinematic theme he predicts will recur as U.S.

Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, in front of MPs today where he will come under strong criticism for leaving behind both British nationals and Afghans who helped the UK.

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Kabul Airport, with clouds of black smoke pouring from the scene.It is not clear what the cause of the blast was or who was responsible for it.Pictures and footage circulated on social media show clouds of black smoke in the city.BBC journalist Secunder Kermani took to Twitter to say: "Afghan Health ministry source confirms there’s been another blast at Kabul airport… pictures circulating on social media."Unclear as of yet what the cause of the explosion was, or any casualty figures."Same source

ISIS-K blast earlier this week. US President has vowed to keep up air strikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members.

Cori Shepherd Stern, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and social-change strategist who helped Afghan girls come to school in the U.S., told The New York Times. “These men were quite literally going into the masses and pulling our women to safety, while coordinating with our guy to find them.

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people flee the Taliban after closing the main processing site, near where the bombs were detonated on Thursday.

President Joe Biden, facing the worst day of his presidency, mourned the loss of U.S. servicemen and civilians killed in a deadly attack outside the Kabul airport, but he vowed that the Afghanistan evacuation mission would continue.

Ward has continued to report from on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan this week following the Taliban’s takeover, and according to the correspondent, violence is increasing. During an on-air report Wednesday, Ward said member of her own team was nearly pistol whipped by Taliban fighters.Watch below, via CNN.

CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward was confronted today by Taliban fighters as she reported from the Kabul streets.

Clarissa Ward has continued to report from on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan this week following the Taliban’s takeover, and according to the correspondent, violence is increasing. During an on-air report Wednesday, Ward said member of her own team was nearly pistol whipped by Taliban fighters.Ward was reporting on the number of people trying to flee Afghanistan right now, noting that many “accosted” her and her team seeking help.