The Taliban raided the office of a Swiss nonprofit group in Afghanistan and reportedly took into custody an American and 17 others.
The International Assistance Mission confirmed the Taliban’s two separate raids in its office in Ghor, according to the nonprofit’s. On the first raid of September 3, the Taliban took three people, and on the second raid on September 13, they took 15 workers.
According to local Afghan spokesman Abdul Wahid Hamas, the workers were taken into custody on charges of “propagating and promoting Christianity.”
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