8am: The Taliban have said to the displaced residents: “Go and tell Ahmad Massoud to give you a house,” sources told Hasht-e Subh. “The Taliban have humiliated and insulted these residents excessively while they were moving. According to sources, those who live in this district are all poor citizens and they do not have any
8am: Taliban on the bases of vague allegations against Uzbek and Tajik Taliban members have been trying to remove them from their ranks. This is one of the reasons that have escalated internal conflicts and tensions among the Taliban members. As a result of internal conflicts among the Taliban fighters in Barka district of Baghlan
8am: Over the past week, the Taliban rebels have arrested 35 Panjshiri residents in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and taken them to an unknown location, sources confirm. As reported, some of these Panjshiri residents were sitting in front of their friend’s house. Suddenly, a number of the Taliban members raid them using a private
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 19, 2022 Delshad has been stranded for over a week at Shir Khan Bandar, a river port along Afghanistan’s northeastern border with Tajikistan. He is among dozens of Tajik truck drivers who transported coal to Afghanistan earlier this month. But the Taliban prevented the drivers from crossing back
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi May 13, 2022 PARWAN, Afghanistan — Resistance to the Taliban is flaring up in northeastern Afghanistan, and as reports of deadly fighting increase, so are claims of war crimes against civilians. The fighting is centered in the center and south of Panjshir Province, a traditional hotbed of ethnic Tajik resistance to the
8am: With the rise in attacks of the National Resistance Front forces on Taliban bases in Panjshir province, the Taliban have been harassing ordinary civilians on the bases of their ethnic affiliation for the past couple of weeks in different parts of the country. Click here to read more (external link).
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).
Mohammad Naser Sidiqee via Fair Observer: Driven by ethno-nationalism, the Taliban are persecuting Tajiks who often find themselves at the sharp end of a knife or the barrel of a gun. Videos and reports of savagely violent killings, particularly of Tajiks have come to the fore. The Taliban has been engaging in indiscriminate killing in
جنایت یا عفو عمومی این جوان بلال نام دارد از حصارک #پنجشیر است، به دست طالبان اسیر شده بود به جرم پنجشیری بودن و دریشی نظامی داشتن محکمه صحرایی و شهیدش میسازند. نه میبخشیم و نه فراموش میکنیم pic.twitter.com/Lw3jJMMEBE — Kabir Wasiq (@kabWasiq) March 11, 2022 Tolo News: A video showing what appears to be
The Atlantic: … Talib fighters began going house to house in Kabul in pursuit of the regime’s supposed enemies. The targets of these ongoing searches are Afghans who served in the former government or military, especially members of the Hazara and Tajik ethnic minorities. The hunt is spreading around the country, putting the lives of