Video of Taliban Torturing People is From Film

MENA: We conducted a reverse image search using stills from the video and found that it actually comes from a movie called The Taliban: the Clouds. It was uploaded to YouTube by the Danish Association in December 2017 – long before the recent Taliban takeover. The film is below.

Although resistance forces initially fought the Taliban in Panjshir, according to many sources the province has become a ghost town. According to Afghans who fled the area, “Everything can change by the hour.”