Live Updates: Taliban Says US Blacklisting New Gov't Members Violates Doha Agreement

The United Nations website and Afghanistan's Permanent Mission to the organisation still list Ghulam Isaczai, appointed by former President Ashraf Ghani as the country's Permanent Representative.

KABUL (Sputnik) - Civil activists organized silent protests with banners in the main square of the Afghan capital despite the ban on all unauthorized protests imposed by the Taliban, a source told Sputnik.

On Wednesday, the new Taliban government announced a ban on all protests, slogans, and demonstrations in the country that do not have official approval from the authorities.

According to the source, the activists, instead of shouting slogans, held banners and remained silent.

"Russia, as well as its BRICS partners, consistently advocates the establishment of a long-awaited peace and stability on the Afghan soil. Residents of this country have been fighting for decades, they have the right to independently determine what their country should be like," Putin added.

KABUL (Sputnik) - A civilian aircraft with foreigners aboard departed from Afghanistan on 9 September, a source from the Taliban (terrorist organisation, banned in Russia) told Sputnik.

The source did not specify citizens of which countries left Afghanistan.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported that the Taliban will allow approximately 200 foreigners, including Americans, to depart from Kabul and leave for Qatar.

KABUL (Sputnik) - The Kabul airport is ready to service civilian aircraft, first flights are scheduled already for Saturday, a source in the Taliban movement (banned as a terrorist organisation in Russia) told Sputnik.

According to the source, some "official foreign flights" are scheduled for Saturday.

Earlier on Thursday, Qatari Foreign Ministry's Special Envoy for Counterterrorism Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani said that the Kabul airport is ready to receive international arrivals, as experts have fixed all the equipment.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Fifty-eight percent of US veterans of the two decade war in Afghanistan support President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw forces from the Central Asian country, according to a fresh Morning Consult poll published on 9 September.

"Nearly 3 in 5 veterans of the war in Afghanistan (58 percent) said they support Biden's move to withdraw all troops before the 20th anniversary of the 2001 attacks on Saturday, including 42 percent who do so strongly. The latter figure is 15 percentage points higher than the share of all voters who said the same," the pollster said.

When asked to assess the American engagement in Afghanistan, veterans were more likely to consider the twenty-year conflict a success than the average voter — 48% of veterans called it "successful," which is 21 percentage points higher than the share of all voters who assessed it the same way.

"Among Afghanistan veterans, 49 percent approve of Biden's handling of Afghanistan policy, compared to 54 percent who approve of how [former] Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama dealt with the country. But the greatest share (63 percent) backed former President Donald Trump's handling of Afghanistan, which ended with a deal with the Taliban that set the stage for this year's withdrawal," the pollster added.

The survey was conducted from August 17 to September 2 among 243 registered voters who served in the country's longest war.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Afghanistan's temporary government does not look inclusive and representative, this is not something the Taliban movement (banned as a terrorist organisation in Russia) promised, European Commission spokesman Peter Stano said on 9 September.

"Looking at the names which were announced. This doesn’t really look like an inclusive and representative government. This government is not something that the Taliban was promising. The first step they made is already not much in the expectations. We are looking forward to have in place a government in Afghanistan which will be reflecting the principle of inclusivity and being a representative body of the Afghan society," Stano said at a briefing.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Kabul airport will be ready for arrivals and departures to international destinations within the next three days, the Khaama Press news agency reported on 9 September.

The Taliban (banned in Russia) representatives, as well as Qatari and Turkish technical experts, have assessed the airport’s readiness, according to Khaama Press.