Briton and wife beaten at Taliban checkpoint while trying to flee Afghanistan
A British national, desperate to escape Afghanistan with his new wife, is fearing for his life after being told by the Foreign Office to make his way to a hotel that is behind three Taliban checkpoints. Last night, he tried to travel to the hotel with his wife but was brutally beaten by Taliban guards at the first checkpoint on the way and told to return on pain of death. He told The Independent that he was now scared to leave the house and had moved with his wife seven times because the Taliban were targeting foreign citizens.