8am: Local sources told Hasht-e Subh that on Tuesday night, January 10, Taliban forces entered a house in Dar Abad vicinity, beheading the old owner of the property and then firing on his dead body before leaving the scene. Residents have witnessed a group of Taliban members in a Ranger-type military vehicle entering a livestock
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 11, 2023 The regional affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an explosion that ripped through the Afghan capital near the entrance to the Foreign Ministry building, killing at least five people. The militant group’s Amaq news agency said on an affiliated Telegram channel that
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 11, 2023 An explosion has ripped through the Afghan capital near the entrance to the Foreign Ministry building, according to an official from the Taliban-led government and eyewitness accounts. Casualty figures have not been announced, although a source said there were injuries or deaths. A spokesman for the Taliban government’s security
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By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 1, 2023 Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities say that several people were killed or injured in an explosion on the morning of January 1 at a military airport adjacent to Kabul International Airport. The spokesman for Kabul’s security operations, Khalid Zadra, told RFE/RL that “a number of our compatriots were martyred or injured” in the
8am: Local sources say that this incident happened on Wednesday morning, following a gas cylinder explosion in a bakery near the central intersection of Taloqan city. But the Taliban in Takhar said that this incident was caused by the explosion of a mine embedded in a computer table on the road. Click here to read
8am: A car bombing targeted the Taliban’s police commander in Badakhshan, Abdul Haq Omar, on Monday morning, December 26, local sources confirmed. The Taliban’s police chief for Badakhshan among 3 people was reportedly killed and 4 others were injured. Witnesses reported that civilians were also killed in this bomb attack. Regarding the attack in Badakhshan,
8am: Sources confirmed to Hasht-e Subh on Saturday that two bodyguards of the Taliban governor for Roy Doab district, Mullah Shamshad, raped these two girls a week ago in Surkh Qala village of the same vicinity and then beheaded them in front of their families. According to locals, after his bodyguards raped these girls, Mullah
8am: The head of the Salang district clinic, in Parwan province, died after being kept in Taliban custody for 15 months. The doctor’s name was Lal Mohammad Salangi and he was arrested from the private hospital of Parwan in November last year, sources confirmed to Hasht-e Subh on Thursday (December 22nd). As yet, the motive
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 20, 2022 Taliban fighters carried out a deadly raid last month in Afghanistan’s central province of Daikundi. The militant group said it targeted and killed “armed rebels” in a village outside of the provincial capital, Nilli, on November 25. But locals said the at least eight people killed in the