Ayaz Gul VOA News June 4, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban seized a district in southern Afghanistan Friday without facing any resistance from Afghan government security forces, bringing to seven the number of districts the insurgents have overrun since the United States and its NATO allies began withdrawing their troops from the country a month
Tolo News: Currently, there are around 36,000 religious seminaries in Pakistan functioning as factories to produce Taliban. It is a big and thriving industry, patronized by the military and run by the religious elites with huge investments from the Middle East. A good number of students here are still Afghans who have been used (and
Newsweek: China and Pakistan are looking to bolster their strategic partnership in Afghanistan, where the withdrawal of U.S. troops after two decades of warfare is set to bring along new opportunities and uncertainties, among them the question of a common foe that the United States says does not exist. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 1,310 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,811 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 77,963, the total number of reported deaths is 3,104, and the total number of recoveries is 58,125.
Tolo News: The 1-1 draw between Afghanistan and Bangladesh diminished the qualification hopes for both teams with the Afghan side moving to five points while Bangladeshis are on two points. Afghanistan will face Oman on June 11 while Bangladesh will face India on Monday. Their hopes of automatically advancing to the third round of the
By Rahim Gul Sarwan, Roshan Noorzai VOA News / June 3, 2021 The withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan has made many Afghans fearful of the Taliban’s return to power, prompting the country’s last remaining Jew to make plans to leave as soon as possible. “God willing, I cannot say seven to eight months, but
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 3, 2021 Afghan police say a mine attached to a minibus in Kabul has exploded, killing four people. Kabul police spokesman Ferdous Farmarz said the blast on June 3 injured several others, including a child. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Both Taliban and the Islamic State militants
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 3, 2021 The U.S. military says air and ground operations it conducted in Afghanistan last year unintentionally killed 20 civilians. The deaths are among an estimated 23 civilians killed in U.S. operations in war zones in 2020, according to an annual report on civilian casualties submitted to Congress. The U.S. Department of