Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 2, 2021 One of the main border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan has reopened after being closed for almost a month, allowing the passage of thousands of commuters and hundreds of trucks. The Chaman crossing is an important transit hub for trucks moving fruit and produce exports from the area
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2021 ISLAMABAD — A group of gunmen, reportedly including suicide bombers, assaulted Afghanistan’s main military hospital in Kabul Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding many more. A Taliban security official confirmed the casualties on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for the Taliban government said the assault began with
The Afghan music scene has gone silent under the Taliban rule and things will never be the same. But the human spirit finds ways, so we look back to our favorite albums to listen to. We’re delighted to know that most of our favorite artists have released albums on vinyl thanks to the accessibility of
Michael Hughes: Considering the Americans – for years – have gone to great lengths to obfuscate the reality on the ground in Afghanistan, it is only fitting that Washington is trying to muddy the waters as to how and why the war ended in such a disastrous manner and who bears the most responsibility. Of
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 1, 2021 ISLAMABAD — U.S. officials have confirmed that a newly formed armed group resisting the Taliban rule in Afghanistan has registered with the United States. The confirmation came in response to claims by the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front (NRF) that its international office has “received authorization to officially open” in
8am: The Central Dar Al-Iftaa Commission and Jurisprudential and Specialized Councils of the Taliban-led government have banned shaving in the Saghir district of Ghor province. Click here to read more (external link).
Yahoo: Today, conditions in Afghanistan have only deteriorated, yet the country has virtually vanished from the central stage of the mainstream media as well as the social media feeds of American politicians. The speed of this shift is telling. It overwhelmingly suggests all the maudlin weeping about Afghan civilians was a sham. The American elite
Tolo News: The report said some of these former security forces were trained by US troops over the past two decades of the West’s mission in Afghanistan. “Some former members of Afghanistan’s US-trained intelligence service and elite military units-now abandoned by their American patrons and hunted by the Taliban- have enlisted in the only force
8am: The former deputy governor of Panjshir Kabir Vaseq has said that the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF) Ahmad Massoud has traveled to some regional countries to attract aid to the NRF, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. The agency quoted Kabir Vaseq on Monday, (November 1) that Ahmad Massoud is in Tajikistan now.