Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 29, 2021 The United States has carried out a drone strike in Kabul on a vehicle carrying Islamic State militants, military officials said on August 29. The officials said the drone strike hit the vehicle, which was heading for the airport with suicide bombers inside. The U.S. said it believes
Tolo News: The Taliban said their forces entered Panjshir province from various directions on Saturday without facing any resistance. Massoud’s supporters, however, rejected the claims of a Taliban advance toward Panjshir and say no one has entered the province. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 28, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The United States on Saturday hailed the Taliban’s commitment that no one will be prevented from traveling out of Afghanistan after August 31, the deadline President Joe Biden has set for all U.S. and NATO troops to exit the country. Zalmay Khalilzad, special U.S. envoy for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 28, 2021 Afghanistan’s two Paralympic athletes have arrived in the athletes’ village in Tokyo and will compete next week in their events, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on August 28. The two-person team of Zakia Khudadadi, a tae kwon do athlete, and Hossain Rasouli, a track athlete, flew from
New York Post: Between 2002 and 2019, American taxpayers spent at least $9 billion to eliminate or transform the poppy fields that produced almost all of the world’s heroin — but instead ended up tripling that production, quadrupling the acreage covered by the deadly flowers, and intensifying the insurgency that plagued the country. As a
Politico:‘Graveyard of Empires’ is an old epitaph that doesn’t reflect historical reality — or the real victims of foreign invasions over the centuries – Afghanistan, in its long existence, has sadly been more like the roadkill of empires — a victim to their ambitions. Click here to read more (external link).
Lisa Schlein VOA News August 28, 2021 GENEVA – U.N. and private aid agencies say human rights violations have been surging in Afghanistan since Taliban militants seized control of the country. Aid agencies say Afghanistan is at a very dangerous point. They say an increasingly brutal conflict is worsening the already serious human rights violations
Farangis Najibullah Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 28, 2021 Ahmad Dawood has barely left his house on a quiet backstreet in Kabul’s Khairkhana neighborhood since Taliban militants marched triumphantly into the Afghan capital on August 15, the same day that President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. Just two days later, a gun-wielding militant ordered the 24-year-old
Hundreds of Tajiks from the southern town of Kulob say they’re prepared to join anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan. The Afghan fighters are based in the Panjshir Valley, a predominantly ethnic Tajik region that has repelled Taliban incursions in the past. Some Tajik officials say it would be illegal for volunteers to cross the border