Ayaz Gul VOA News July 16, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Friday an international award-winning journalist from India had been killed during pre-dawn fighting in embattled southern Kandahar province. Danish Seddiqi, a Reuters photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, was covering clashes between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district, which
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 1,122 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,226 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported 49 deaths and 717 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period. Click here to read more (external link).
Michael Hughes: U.S. Defense Department Secretary Lloyd Austin believes the United States mission is not over in Afghanistan – a declaration that comes with nearly all American troops gone, the Taliban on a rampage, and the U.N. sounding alarms over human rights abuses. The insurgents over the past few days, with near impunity, have been
The Week: The war itself created the moral hazard Bush now decries. If we could not change the facts on the ground in Afghanistan with the world’s most powerful military there for 20 years and without any plans to do so in the next 20 years, the war cannot go on forever. Click here to
Radio Azadi July 15, 2021 The Taliban has proposed a three-month cease-fire in exchange for the release of 7,000 of its fighters, an Afghan government negotiator said, as the militant group captured a key border crossing with Pakistan in a sweeping offensive ahead of the August 31 deadline for the pullout of U.S. forces from
Ariana: Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said Pakistan is continuing its efforts to achieve stability and security in Afghanistan. In a tweet, he said Prime Minister Imran Khan had a telephonic conversation with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and invited him to attend a “special” conference on Afghanistan situation the country
1TV: The International Criminal Court and the United Nations have been asked to investigate the killing of former Afghan television presenter Yama Siawash. Siawash, a former anchor on the private TV channel Tolo News who had been working at the country’s central bank, was killed last year by a bomb on a car that was
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 1,198 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,528 samples tested in the last 24 hours. Data by the Public Health Ministry shows that the total number of cases is 139,051, total deaths stand at 6,072 and total recoveries are at 80,204. Click here to
Frud Bezhan Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 14, 2021 MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — Women banned from going outside alone. Girls barred from attending school. Unmarried women forced to marry fighters. This was life for many Afghans under the Taliban’s brutal regime in the 1990s when the fundamentalist Islamist group conquered much of Afghanistan.
CNN: The victims were members of an Afghan Special Forces unit: their executioners, the Taliban. The summary killings took place on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad in Faryab province, close to Afghanistan’s border with Turkmenistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan Police Officer Fights Taliban Alone for 18 Hours