Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 27, 2019 By Frud Bezhan KABUL — Afghanistan’s communist President Hafizullah Amin was lying unconscious in his bed. A KGB agent who had infiltrated Amin’s staff as a cook had poisoned the president and his ministers during lunch at the Tajbeg presidential palace in Kabul. It was December 27, 1979.
The National Interest: It’s well past time to let Afghans decide Afghanistan’s future without foreign “assistance.” During the early days after the 9/11 attacks and the initiation of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, it was relatively common to reference the woeful Soviet experience in that country. Here was a clear paradigm of what not to do
1TV: “We have recorded a surge in activity of ISIS units in Afghanistan, united in the so-called Wilayah Khorasan,” Alexander Bortnikov said at the Council of the Heads of Security Agencies and Intelligence Services of the Central Asian states. Due to their looming defeat in Syria and Iraq, international terrorist organizations are hastily withdrawing their remaining forces
By Frud Bezhan & Petr Kubalek Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty KRASLICE, Czech Republic — In the winter of 1978-79, Afghanistan’s communist regime deployed a hit squad to find and kill Babrak Karmal, the high-profile ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Fearing for his life, Czechoslovak authorities secretly hid Karmal and his family in a remote hunting lodge in
Ariana: An intra-Afghan meeting that was scheduled to be held in China [was] delayed for an unspecified period of time after representatives of United States, China, Russia, and Pakistan met in Moscow on Friday. The two-day conference was scheduled for October 28 between representatives of Taliban and Afghan politicians including Kabul government officials. Click here to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 17, 2019 A four-member Taliban delegation has traveled to Tehran for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials — the second such trip by militants to a foreign country just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that peace talks with the United States have collapsed. Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the
Press TV September 14, 2019 A team of negotiators from the Afghan Taliban has traveled to Russia days after the collapse of year-long negotiations between the US and the militant group. Taliban’s Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Russia’s TASS news agency on Friday that the group’s delegation had met with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 28, 2019 The Taliban has said an agreement is close with U.S. officials on a deal that would see American forces withdraw from Afghanistan in exchange for a Taliban promise the country would not become a haven for international militants. The statement came during a ninth round of talks
1TV: There was no logical reason for Taliban’s refusal to accept ceasefire, Ata Mohammad Noor, executive chief of Jamiat-i-Islami political party, said after Afghan politicians’ talks with Taliban in Moscow. Afghan politicians and Taliban discussed ceasefire, civilian protection, prisoners, foreign troop exit, foreign interference, establishing Islamic system, maintaining territorial integrity and national unity, and women’s rights
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 30, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Afghan police say a suicide bomb blast near a military training academy in Kabul has killed at least six security personnel and injured 16 other people. The Interior Ministry confirmed Thursday’s bombing at the entrance gate of Marshal Fahim National Defense University in the capital but gave