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Taliban Kills Two Students in Andarab Baghlan

11th May, 2022 · admin

8am: Local sources in Baghlan province have reported that the Taliban are detaining, torturing, and shooting innocent civilians in Andarab district of Baghlan province. Sources told Hasht- e Subh that the Taliban shot dead two young students last night in one of the villages of Andarab. According to sources, the victims were students of a

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghanistan Freedom Front - AFF, Baghlan, Kandahar, Life under Taliban rule, Panjshir, Pashtun Taliban, Takhar, War Crime |
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Lack of Trust: Pashtun Taliban to Replace Tajik and Uzbek Taliban in Tajik and Uzbek Dominated Provinces

7th May, 2022 · admin

8am: Taliban have recently deployed 300 additional Forces from Kandahar and Eastern provinces in Badakhshan to replace the local Taliban fighters. The purpose to increase the outsider Taliban fighter in Badakhshan is to seize the control of gold mines and grazing grass. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, Security, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Kandahar, Pashtun Taliban, Pashtunization, Tajiks, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan, Taliban looters, Uzbeks |
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Poppy Price Doubles After Taliban Ban Announced: Farmers

6th April, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: Niaz Mohammad, a farmer in Kandahar province, said that he cultivated poppy plants on 250 acres of land, where dozens of people are working on the farms. “Until our government stops us from cultivating it, we will not stop cultivating poppy. We don’t care about the westerners,” said Niaz Mohammad, a farmer. “It

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Kandahar, opium, Poppy cultivation, Taliban and Drugs |
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Poppy Cultivation Surges in Kandahar, Helmand

4th March, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: The cultivation of poppy for opium production has surged in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar this year compared to previous years, farmers said.  “There is nothing else to cultivate. We were growing wheat before. This year—we want to cultivate poppy. Previously they were asking for bribes every day but we don’t

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: Helmand, Kandahar, Poppy cultivation |
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Two Civilians, Four Daesh Killed in Kandahar Operation

15th November, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: Sanaullah, a relative of the victims, said his father and younger brother were killed. “One of them was my father and the other one my younger brother. Daesh members were living in a house and there was an explosion, and they were killed in that explosion,” he said. Click here to read more

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Kandahar |
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Reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Makes Rare Public Appearance

31st October, 2021 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2021 The reclusive leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban made a rare public appearance at a religious school in the city of Kandahar on October 30. Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada had not been seen in public since he became the Taliban leader in 2016, even after the movement took

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Posted in Taliban | Tags: Hibatullah Akhundzada, Kandahar |
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ISIS allegedly claims Kandahar attack

15th October, 2021 · admin

#BREAKINGIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack on the #Shia mosque in #Kandahar. The group identified the two suicide bombers as Anas Khurasani and Abu Ali Baluchi. https://t.co/7RUj3Iau2F — Muslim Shirzad (@MuslimShirzad) October 15, 2021

Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Security | Tags: Kandahar |
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Shiite Mosque Blast Kills Dozens in Afghanistan’s Kandahar

15th October, 2021 · admin

Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 15, 2021 ISLAMABAD — An explosion ripped through a Shiite mosque Friday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 70, according to sources at the local Mirwais hospital and local media. The blast went off during Friday prayers, usually attended by large

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Kandahar, Shiites, Taliban Security Failure, Taliban vs. ISIS |
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‘The challenge for us now is drought, not war’: livelihoods of millions of Afghans at risk

21st September, 2021 · admin

The Guardian (UK): The war in Afghanistan might be over but farmers in Kandahar’s Arghandab valley face a new enemy: drought. It has hardly rained for two years, a drought so severe that some farmers are questioning how much longer they can live off the land. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: drought, Kandahar |
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Afghans In Kandahar Protest Against Evictions By Taliban

15th September, 2021 · admin

 Hundreds of people marched in Kandahar on September 14 to protest against what they say are plans by the Taliban to evict them from their homes. Many of those said to be facing eviction are widows or wives of Afghan soldiers killed or wounded in action over the past 20 years in fighting against

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Posted in Taliban | Tags: Kandahar, Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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