Two foreign professors have been abducted at gunpoint from outside the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
On Sunday, Kabul police chief Abdel Rahman Rahimi confirmed that the kidnapped professors were US and Australian nationals.
The US State Department has announced its awareness of the incident, but declined to comment “due to privacy considerations.”
The incident comes just a few days after the Taliban officially claimed responsibility for an attack on a convoy of foreign tourists in the country’s western region.
The militants have intensified attacks following the appointment of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada as the new leader of the Taliban.
According to a report by Amnesty International, at least 1.2 million Afghans have been internally displaced due to violence in the past three years.
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