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‘Ready To Resist,’ Residents Of Last Anti-Taliban Stronghold, Panjshir, Brace For Uncertain Future

24th August, 2021 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 23, 2021 As Afghanistan’s last major bastion of anti-Taliban resistance gears up for new fighting against the hard-line Islamist group, there has been an outpouring of support for the effort from residents of the Panjshir Valley. But they are also concerned about the prospect of a prolonged siege of their mountainous

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Ahmad Massoud, Amrullah Saleh, Dostum, Panjshir, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Yar Mohammad Dostum |
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Turmoil In Afghanistan Spills Into Central Asia

18th August, 2021 · admin

Bruce Pannier Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 18, 2021 The events that the governments of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have been increasingly dreading in recent weeks have begun to happen. The Afghan government has fallen to the Taliban and despite the Central Asian governments having had years to contemplate and plan for such an occurrence,

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Posted in Central Asia, Political News, Refugees and Migrants, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Atta Mohammad Noor, Destabilization of Central Asia, Dostum, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan Relations, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Resistance to Taliban continues

17th August, 2021 · admin

August 17, 2021 MOSCOW, August 17 – RIA Novosti. Vice President Amrullah Saleh’s forces have recaptured the Taliban area in the Charikar area in Parwan province north of Kabul, a military source in the Afghan capital told RIA Novosti. “Fighting is now going on in the Panjshir area,” the source said. Ten thousand Afghan army

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Posted in Political News, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Amrullah Saleh, Charikar, Dostum, Panjshir |
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Atta alleges conspiracy to trap him and Dostum

14th August, 2021 · admin

My dear countrymen! Despite our firm resistance, sadly, all the government & the #ANDSF equipments were handed over to the #Taliban as a result of a big organised & cowardly plot. They had orchestrated the plot to trap Marshal Dostum and myself too, but they didn’t succeed. 1/2 — Ata Mohammad Noor (@Atamohammadnoor) August 14,

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Atta Mohammad Noor, Dostum, Ghani army betrayal |
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Taliban Fighters Seize Major Northern Afghan City Of Mazar-e Sharif

14th August, 2021 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 14, 2021 Taliban fighters have reportedly taken control of Mazar-e Sharif, a major northern Afghan city that is one of the last in the country still under government control. The August 14 capture of the city, located around 100 kilometers from the border with Uzbekistan, was a major setback for the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government Security Failure, Atta Mohammad Noor, Dostum, Mazar-e-Sharif, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Mazar-e-Sharif reported to have fallen

14th August, 2021 · admin

Atta Mohammad Noor and Marshal Dostum both fled to the border with Uzbekistan. Mazar-e-Sharif, #Afghanistan’s fourth largest city and economic hub of the north, has fallen to the Taliban. Another devastating loss to the government in #Kabul. Govt forces now only control two major cities — Kabul and Jalalabad in the east. That is likely

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Atta Mohammad Noor, Dostum, Mazar-e-Sharif |
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Dostum says Taliban ‘trapped’ in north and have nowhere to go

12th August, 2021 · admin

Ariana: Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum said Wednesday that the Taliban are now trapped in the north and will not be able to flee that part of the country and that security forces will “crackdown” on the militants. Speaking to journalists in Balkh province, Dostum said: “The Taliban have been trapped in the north several times

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Dostum |
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Taliban Seizes Kunduz Airport As Ghani Replaces Army Chief

11th August, 2021 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 11, 2021 The Taliban has captured the airport of the strategic northern provincial capital of Kunduz, where hundreds of members of the Afghan security forces reportedly surrendered to the militants as President Ashraf Ghani replaced the army chief of staff. Amid a string of rapid advances by the militants across Afghanistan,

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Posted in EU-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government Security Failure, Asylum, Atta Mohammad Noor, Badakhshan, Dostum, Kunduz, Mazar-e-Sharif |
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Battle Between Taliban, Afghan Government Now Seeing Return of Warlords

9th August, 2021 · admin

Jamie Dettmer VOA News August 9, 2021 The beleaguered Afghan government is having to turn to veteran warlords to try to fend off the Taliban as international forces withdraw from the country. The warlords return to playing a major military role is a key part of President Ashraf Ghani’s national mobilization plan to halt the

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Ashraf Ghani Government Security Failure, Dostum, Ismail Khan, Samangan |
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Taliban Seizes Key Areas Of Kunduz As Two Other Afghan Provincial Capitals Fall

8th August, 2021 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 8, 2021 Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals, including the strategic city of Kunduz and Sar-e Pol in the north of the country on August 8, local officials and a spokesman for the militants said as the group stepped up its northern offensive and threatened more urban centers. The militants have

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government Security Failure, Dostum, Kunduz, Sar-e-Pol, United States handing Pakistan control of Afghanistan |
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