8am: Over the past two years, suicide attacks have claimed the lives of several Taliban officials. In the most recent incident, a suicide attack targeted and killed the acting governor and deputy governor of the Taliban in Badakhshan province. Similarly, Daud Muzamil, the Taliban governor of Balkh province, was previously killed by an ISIS suicide
Ariana: At least 24 people died in a traffic accident on Wednesday in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, local officials said. Din Mohammad Nazari, the spokesman of the Sar-e-Pul Province Police Command, said eight children, 12 women and four men died in the accident. Nazari said the accident was the result of careless driving. Click here
Tolo News: Residents of Washeer district of Helmand province left their houses due to a shortage of water in the district. Nearly 300 families have been displaced from just one village, named Grazan. The residents who remained in Grozan said they have to go for hours to get access to drinking water. Click here to
Khaama: Sri Lanka strode to 120 with 34 overs to spare in Hambantota, striding past the 117 set by the tourists after a fast-bowling attack led by Dushmantha Chameera that demolished the hapless Afghan top order. In a nine-wicket thrashing that sealed a 2-1 ODI series victory for the hosts on Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s openers
Fox News: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is slamming the Afghanistan dissent cable that Secretary of State Antony Blinken allowed congressional access to Tuesday as “embarrassing” and said it debunks the Biden administration’s narrative that it was caught off guard by the country’s swift collapse in 2021. Issa, who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 6, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that a car bomb blast had killed at least two people, including the deputy governor of the northeastern Badakhshan border province. A local official spokesman told VOA by phone that Molvi Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi was being driven to work in the
8am: Following the recent border conflict between the Taliban and Iranian border guards, Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), tweeted a stanza of Rumi’s famous poems, indicating that he had warned Iran not to go to the Taliban as he himself was the true acquaintance of Iran. This tweet provoked a
Khaama: Russia can only start recognizing the Taliban in Afghanistan if the pledges to form an inclusive government are kept, Lavrov said on Tuesday while speaking at the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University, Tass Reported. “Until the conditions above have been met, we cannot talk about officially recognizing the Taliban movement’s government,” he said. “These commitments include