A child covered in blood is carried away with his father after the Taliban used whips on the crowd trying to get in to Kabul airport on Tuesday
* The White House has declared victory over Al Qaeda as U.S. troops depart from Afghanistan
* But on Tuesday a Pentagon watchdog reported that the Taliban was 'providing safe haven for the terrorist group in Afghanistan'
* The assessment will raise concerns that the country could again be used to launch attacks against the US
* And with Americans and their allies racing for the exits, experts warned that Washington's human intelligence ability had been severely eroded
* The UN reported recently that Al Qaeda's ailing leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in the country
* On Tuesday the Taliban held a press conference and attempted to present themselves as a moderate governing force
* Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid held his first news conference since taking Kabul on Sunday and said they would honor women’s rights - within sharia law
* Yet a photo has emerged showing a woman in Takhar province who was shot dead by the Taliban after she went out in public without a burqa
* Video from Kabul shows heavily-armed militants driving around the city firing their guns, amid reports of activists and government workers being hunted down
A woman in Afghanistan was shot dead by the Taliban for not wearing a burqa, hours after they promised to respect the rights of women - provided they respect Sharia law.
The woman was killed in the district of Taloqan, in the northern province of Takhar, 230 miles north of Kabul.
She was pictured on Tuesday lying in a pool of blood as her parents and others crouched around her, Fox News reported.
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Update: Taliban claims it'll be more moderate, but killings continue in Afghanistan (FOX News) WNU
WNU Editor: Russian news media is quoting NGOs that are still in Afghanistan that killings, people disappearing, and harsh rule is happening throughout the country.
