Taliban pleads ignorance as 2 foreign journalists working for U.N. detained in Kabul
CBSN
Kabul — Two international journalists who were on an assignment for the United Nations refugee agency have been detained in the Afghan capital, the UNHCR said on Friday. The detentions come months after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan following a lightning offensive that ousted the former Western-backed government.
"Two journalists on assignment with UNHCR and Afghan nationals working with them have been detained in Kabul. We are doing our utmost to resolve the situation, in coordination with others," the UNHCR tweeted.
One of the journalists is Andrew North, a British former BBC correspondent who has covered Afghanistan for about two decades and has traveled regularly to the war-ravaged country to report on its deteriorating humanitarian crisis.
