By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service May 8, 2022 Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government says it is investigating reports that rockets have been fired into Tajikistan from Afghan territory. The Islamic State (IS) extremist group said earlier on May 8 that it had fired eight rockets from Afghanistan into the territory of neighboring Tajikistan, according to an Afghan media report. The Afghan
Ariana: Health officials in the northern province of Kunduz said Sunday that the infectious disease claimed the lives of eight people last (solar) year while 1,700 others contracted the illness. “We registered 1,713 patients of Tuberculosis in the year 1400 whereas the number was 1,605 in 1399. Poverty and economic difficulties are the big reasons
8am: Following the collapse of ten villages of Versaj district to NRF forces’ control, the Taliban have deployed Badri forces in the area to bring back the situation under control. Sources told Hasht-e Subh that the rebels are very harshly torturing the residents in Versaj district to make them reveal the locations of the Resistance
8am: Taliban have recently deployed 300 additional Forces from Kandahar and Eastern provinces in Badakhshan to replace the local Taliban fighters. The purpose to increase the outsider Taliban fighter in Badakhshan is to seize the control of gold mines and grazing grass. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi May 7, 2022 Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered all women to cover their faces, the latest in a series of restrictions that have drawn criticism from many Afghans and the international community. The decree, announced at a news conference in the capital, Kabul, on May 7, calls for women to only show
8am: The Afghan-Japan Hospital in Kabul announced a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Afghanistan, adding that not having access to identification kits has posed serious challenges. According to the officials of the hospital, more than 70 positive cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the country in the past 24 hours. Click here to read
8am: In a newsletter, the National Liberation Front has claimed that its forces have killed five Taliban rebels in a guerrilla attack in Paktia province. In another report today, the Liberation Front also claimed that its forces had targeted Mullah Hafizullah Badr, the Taliban’s intelligence chief in western Kabul, in the Bagh-e-Dawood of the Company
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 6, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has deteriorated economic and humanitarian conditions in the war-torn nation, prompting tens of thousands of people to cross into Pakistan seeking asylum and a resettled status abroad. Pakistani officials say that since the Taliban regained power in Kabul last August more than
8am: Sources in Deh Rawood district of Urozgan province have reported to Hasht-e Subh that anonymous armed individuals have mysteriously murdered two former soldiers. It is said that the victims were father and son. Despite the general amnesty announced by the Taliban, dozens of the former security forces have been mysteriously arrested, tortured, killed, and