Photos show Taliban fighters posing inside former Afghan police academy

By Tamar Lapin August 31, 2021

There’s clearly a new sheriff in town.

Stunning photos show Taliban fighters posing in the former Afghan National Police Academy in Kabul amid the frenzied withdrawal of US and other Western forces and the extremist group’s quick takeover of the country.

Taliban commander Qasi Ali was photographed by the UK Sun newspaper sitting at a mahogany desk, surrounded by his men inside the training center on the eastern outskirts of the Afghan capital.

“Look at this office. We haven’t looted anything,” he showboated for the paper.

Rubbing it in, on the table in front of Ali sat a British police helmet and an American state trooper’s hat, gifts the two nations had given to Afghan police trainees, according to the report.

The senior Taliban commander and his fighters were also pictured standing in a hallway holding guns inside the building, which was once used by US-led NATO forces to train Afghan police.

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