8am: Locals say the Taliban have recently moved a reserve battalion to Kapisa province. The unit is said to have consisted of 400 armed personnel. A reliable source told Hasht-e Subh on Friday (June 10th) that the Taliban had been moving troops into the Sanjan area of the first district of Kapisa province for the
Al Jazeera: came fascinated with them and small groups of people found ways to begin trading in them, especially as at least one crypto commodity exchange had been started in Kabul by 2019. But it did not really take off until last year when the Taliban takeover of the country shut Afghanistan out of the
Ariana: Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced a $30 million grant to support the Afghanistan Humanitarian Trust Fund (AHTF). Operated under the umbrella of the Islamic Development Bank in coordination with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the AHTF grant will be provided through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and the Saudi Fund for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 9, 2022 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the international community to impose tougher restrictions on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers in response to what the watchdog called a “grave human rights crisis” that has been especially affecting women and girls after the group’s return to power in August. Since taking
8am: Sources say the Taliban have shot dead a member of the National Resistance Front (NRF) in Baghlan province. Local sources told Hasht-e Subh on Wednesday (8 June) that Taliban fighters shot dead a member of the NRF in the Tala-wa-Barfak district of Baghlan province on Tuesday. The Taliban also beheaded and mutilated four members
Ariana: Noor Ahmad Islamjar, the governor of Herat, met with Turkmen Ambassador to Afghanistan Hoja Ovezov and Mohammad Murad Amanov, chief executive of the project in the province. During the meeting, the CEO of the TAPI project said that the practical work of the gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan will start in the next
The Hill: America still has a few tools to support its interests in Afghanistan but using them requires a focus beyond humanitarian relief and politically wishing the issue would disappear. Our interests are easily described: preventing attacks on the U.S. and its allies; supplying food and medical care to Afghans; supporting human rights, especially for
8am: Local sources report that a man has been shot dead by Taliban fighters in Panjshir province. The incident took place on Wednesday evening (June 8th) in the Roidara area of the Shotul district of Panjshir. According to sources, the victim’s name was Ibrahim, and he was killed by the Taliban while irrigating his trees