Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 28, 2021 Another group of Afghan government soldiers has fled across the border into Tajikistan as Taliban militants press an offensive across swaths of northern Afghanistan. Tajikistan’s border service said that 17 Afghan soldiers fled into the country on June 27 after Taliban militants attacked a border checkpoint located in the town
Antiwar.com: The problem is not that the US is leaving. The problem is that American personnel stayed too long attempting to do the impossible. In the process they created a dependent state unable to stand on its own. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Pakistan’s interior minister said Sunday that the families of the Afghan Taliban live in his country, including in areas around the capital, Islamabad, and the militant group’s members receive some medical treatment in local hospitals. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 1,407 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 4,514 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported 64 deaths and 917 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period. Afghanistan has so far recorded 117,158 positive cases and 4,794 deaths from COVID-19 in
Radio Free Afghanistan June 27, 2021 Taliban forces have captured more than 50 members of the country’s security forces in the central province of Maidan Wardak , a senior police commander told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan. Colonel Mustafa Mayar, the chief police commander in Maidan Wardak, said on June 27 that the Afghan security officers
Tolo News: Former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is in Turkey for treatment, said Sunday he will soon return to his home province of Jawzjan in northern Afghanistan to suppress the Taliban in the north, after consultation with President Ghani and the Defense Ministry. “I predicted this years ago,” Dostum said, referring to
Ariana: Japan plans to ask Olympic athletes from Afghanistan and five other countries hit hard by the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus to have daily virus tests for seven days before leaving for the Games, a Japanese newspaper said on Sunday. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghanistan: 1,532 New Cases
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 26, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Authorities in Afghanistan confirmed Saturday the delta coronavirus variant, first identified in India, has been mainly responsible for the recent surge in cases and deaths in the war-torn country. Minister for Public Health Wahid Majrooh told reporters in Kabul that out of 19 samples examined in