1TV: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said that the Taliban aim to kill him, but he wants to hug them. In a lecture at Kabul University, Ghani said that the Taliban cannot win militarily, but they can come through peace. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Afghanistan May 30, 2021 Six members of the Afghan security forces have been killed by a roadside bomb near the site of a railway that is being built to link eastern Iran with Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. Herat’s provincial governor, Wahid Qatali, said those who were killed had been guarding the site
Ariana: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hiz-e-Islami, said Sunday that the Afghan government has failed to form a single and decisive authority for peace. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Hekmatyar stated that important issues over a unified plan for the Istanbul peace conference were agreed upon during a trilateral meeting with President Ashraf Ghani
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Sunday reported 929 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,368 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 71,690, the total number of reported deaths is 2,944, and the total number of recoveries is 57,450.
Tolo News: Afghanistan played Singapore in a friendly match that ended in a 1-1 draw on Saturday night ahead of the qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. Afghanistan will face Bangladesh on Thursday in Qatar for a qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC
Ariana: National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib said on Saturday that the Taiban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has not been seen in the last year – which has again raised questions about whether he is dead or alive. Mohib said in a press conference in Kabul Saturday that intelligence findings indicate that Taliban members
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 29, 2021 Officials in Afghanistan say at least four people were killed and 11 injured by a roadside-bomb blast in the northern province of Kapisa. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the May 29 blast targeted a minivan full of university lecturers and students that was traveling to Al-Beroni University
1TV: “The greatest threat and likelihood of attack from al Qaeda or ISIS is not going to be from Afghanistan; it’s going to be from five other regions of the world that have significantly more presence of both al Qaeda and organizational structures, including ISIS,” Biden said addressing US service members and their families in