U.N. says Afghan staff increasingly harassed, intimidated since Taliban takeover

FILE PHOTO: Taliban forces patrol at a runway a day after U.S troops withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Afghan staff of the United Nations are being increasingly subjected to harassment and intimidation since the Taliban came to power last month, the U.N. special envoy on Afghanistan Deborah Lyons said on Thursday.

Lyons told the Security Council that U.N. premises had largely been respected, although there were some exceptions.