Asgar Asgarov VOA News August 11, 2022 WASHINGTON — A year after their forces swept through Afghanistan and surged to power, the Taliban still struggle to gain international recognition, even though several countries have engaged with the group in one way or another, especially to respond to an unfolding humanitarian crisis there. Most recently, Afghanistan made
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 11, 2022 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bombing Thursday at a religious seminary in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killed a prominent Taliban cleric known for his fiery speeches against Islamic State militants. A spokesman for the ruling Taliban confirmed the assassination of Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani in what he said was a “brutal
8am: Sources report the killing of two drug addicts by the Taliban in Joy Shir area of Kabul city. On Wednesday, sources said that Taliban fighters first beat up two addicts and then one of the Taliban fighters hit one of the addicts with a knife and when the addict ran away, the Taliban fighter
8am: Local sources in Takhar province have reported that a Taliban commander has raped a woman in this province. This Taliban commander’s name is Gulzar Gajar, he had entered the victim’s house under the pretext of the house-to-house search operation. Due to the fear of the Taliban, the localities and villagers have remained silent and
NPR: Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie: I will tell you, I don’t believe Afghanistan is ungovernable. I believe Afghanistan is ungovernable with the Western model that will be imposed on it. And so I think that’s sort of what draws out to me. We lost track of why we were there, and
DW: Poverty has run rampant in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So much so that an ever-increasing number of Afghan parents are being forced into trafficking their own children. Be it to childless couples, as brides or even as fighters for radical Islamic groups. Most of the affected children come from internally displaced families: forced to flee
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 10, 2022 A humanitarian group says that one year into the return to power of the Taliban, Afghan girls have been confronted with a grave economic crisis, a crippling drought, and new restrictions that have shattered their lives, excluding them from society and leaving them hungry. As a result, a quarter
8am: The Taliban’s virtue promoters have started their social campaign in the center of Zabul province. Local sources in Zabul province said on Wednesday (August 10th) that the so-called Taliban’s virtue promoters, using loudspeakers mounted on cars, asked the men of Zabul not to allow their wives to attend wedding parties. Click here to read
8am: In two separate attacks by National Resistance Front (NRF) forces in Takhar Province, 4 Taliban members have been killed and 7 others were wounded. These attacks were carried out on Monday night (August 8th) in the Farkhar district of Takhar province. In the first wave of attacks on Taliban outposts in Chaman Khusda of
AFP: Since their takeover a year ago, the Taliban have squeezed Afghan women out of public life, imposing suffocating restrictions on where they can work, how they can travel, and what they can wear. There is hardly a woman in the country who has not lost a male relative in successive wars, while many of