New York Times: The Taliban have killed or abducted about 500 former government soldiers and employees in six months

The New York Times reported that the Taliban had carried out massive retaliatory killings of former government employees and members of the former security forces, despite a pardon.

The report said that the Taliban have killed or abducted about 500 government employees and former members of the security forces in the six months since they took office.

The report states that the Taliban tortured former soldiers after their capture of Afghanistan and then killed them by shooting or beheading them.