Ariana: President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday the Taliban still has “deep ties to al-Qaeda, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba” and wants Afghanistan to become a safe haven for terrorists. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Wednesday reiterated its call for Afghans to take COVID-19 guidelines seriously during the Eid days to help prevent a new surge in the pandemic. “If the people shows carelessness like the previous Eid, we will still remain at the peak of COVID-19 and then the
Tolo News: Afghan athletes said they feel well-prepared and ready for the Tokyo Olympic Games, which are scheduled to begin on July 23. Fahim Anwari will compete in swimming, Kmimia Yosefi and Shah Mahmood Noorzahi in athletics, Farzad Mansouri in taekwondo and Mahdi Yovari in the shooting category. Click here to read more (external link).
By Reid Standish Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2021 As U.S. troops draw down in Afghanistan, Chinese officials have stepped up contacts with the Taliban as it surges across the country and builds strategic footholds against Afghan government forces. On paper, Beijing and the Taliban are strange bedfellows. China is an atheistic, communist state that
Rolling Stone: Kunduz, a city of some 370,000 people, had fallen to the Taliban twice before – in 2015 and 2016 — but was retaken with the help of U.S. Special Forces and air support. A loss here now would be severely demoralizing and could have a domino effect at a time when other provincial
AFP: At least three rockets landed Tuesday in the Afghan capital ahead of a speech by President Ashraf Ghani marking the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the interior ministry said. The rockets, fired about 8 a.m., were heard across the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the presidential palace and several embassies,
Frud Bezhan Radio Azadi July 19, 2021 MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — Safia and her three young children live out in the open, exposed to the punishing summer heat, with no food or water. She fled her home in Afghanistan’s northern city of Kunduz after it was struck last week by mortars, which killed her husband,