Afghan security forces keep watch as smoke rises from the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 21, 2018. "They were shouting in Pashto (language), 'Don't leave any of them alive, good or bad'. I opened the window and tried to get out using a tree but the branch broke and I fell to the ground. I tried to come down but I was heavy and my arms were not strong enough. "Such violence has no place here or anywhere in the world," he said in a statement.

Source: Egypt Today January 21, 2018 23:01 UTC