Ariana: Ireland beat Afghanistan by seven wickets in the first of five matches in the T20 International in Belfast on Tuesday. The two sides will meet again on Thursday at the same Civil Services Cricket Club venue in Stormont for the second time in their five-match series. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The Taliban’s virtue promoters have started their social campaign in the center of Zabul province. Local sources in Zabul province said on Wednesday (August 10th) that the so-called Taliban’s virtue promoters, using loudspeakers mounted on cars, asked the men of Zabul not to allow their wives to attend wedding parties. Click here to read
The Washington Times: Afghanistan’s former president didn’t make off with millions of dollars of American money last year, but other people likely did, a U.S. inspector general said Tuesday in a report detailing his yearlong effort to track down what happened. John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said former President Ashraf Ghani
The Washington Times: Police have identified the man arrested in two of a string of killings of Muslim men in the past year — another Muslim. Muhammad Syed [an Afghan], 51, has reportedly been charged with murder in the deaths of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to local Muslim leaders cited in
8am: In two separate attacks by National Resistance Front (NRF) forces in Takhar Province, 4 Taliban members have been killed and 7 others were wounded. These attacks were carried out on Monday night (August 8th) in the Farkhar district of Takhar province. In the first wave of attacks on Taliban outposts in Chaman Khusda of
AFP: Since their takeover a year ago, the Taliban have squeezed Afghan women out of public life, imposing suffocating restrictions on where they can work, how they can travel, and what they can wear. There is hardly a woman in the country who has not lost a male relative in successive wars, while many of
Tolo News: The US Department of Defense said that it can still “reach out and touch” any “terrorist” groups without having an actual troop presence in Afghanistan. “I think in the last ten days, in the strike that was carried out on Ayman al- Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda and the most wanted terrorist on
Amnesty International: Responding to the series of attacks leading to about 120 deaths and injuries in areas dominated by Hazara Shiite communities in west Kabul over the last few days, Zaman Sultani, Amnesty International’s South Asia regional researcher, said: “The systematic attacks on the minority Hazara Shiite community in Afghanistan may amount to crimes against
Ariana: A seminar was held in Kabul on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing spread of lumpy skin disease (LSD) in livestock in Afghanistan. According to health officials, this virus is transmitted by some species of mosquitoes, ticks and other blood-feeding insects but is not transmitted to humans. “This virus has spread from eastern and southeastern