By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique August 2, 2022 For years, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri was believed to be hiding in the remote, mountainous areas straddling Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan. But in an ironic twist, the terrorist network leader was killed by a U.S. drone strike in a posh neighborhood in central Kabul that was largely
CBS News: Nearly a year since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis and human rights record under the Taliban remains dire. Despite the demands of the U.S. and many in the international community, the rights of women in Afghanistan have deteriorated to a level unseen since the Taliban first imposed its repressive policies
8am: Local sources in Nangarhar province report that a Taliban base in the province is attacked by the National Resistance Front (NRF). A reliable local source in the province, on the condition of anonymity, told Hasht-e Subh that the forces of NRF attacked a Taliban base in the Shruta area of Dara Noor district of
Ariana: Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) announced that a humanitarian cash aid package of $40 million arrived in Kabul on Tuesday. This comes just two days after another cash aid package of $40 million arrived in the country. DAB said in a statement that on arrival of the cash packages are transferred to a commercial bank
Ariana: In an interview with an Indian news channel on Friday, July 29, Afghanistan’s acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani said that the al-Qaeda network does not have a military presence in Afghanistan and that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) [Taliban] is bound by its commitments to the international community to fight ISIS. Haqqani added
Anita Powell, Ayaz Gul VOA News August 2, 2022 WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD — Senior White House officials say they have concluded with “high confidence” that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was the only one killed in a weekend drone strike in Kabul, and that they were aware that senior members of the Taliban’s Haqqani network knew he was in
TRT World: The Central Intelligence Agency carried out a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, two US officials told Reuters on Monday. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the strike took place in Kabul on Sunday. They did not give details on the target or whether there were any casualties. Separately
8am: Sources on Monday, speaking to Hasht-e Subh, said that the Taliban group has recently sent hundreds of fighters to Hesarak village of Rukha district. According to sources, at the same time as sending these rebels, the Taliban ordered the residents of Hesarak village to evacuate the village as soon as possible. Prior to this,
M. Ashraf Haidari via The National Interest: On July 20, 2022, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report on “Human Rights in Afghanistan: 16 August 2021 – 15 June 2022.” The ten-month report covers a wide range of ongoing human rights violations in the country since August 2021 when the Taliban,