Michael Hughes: The so-called “extended” troika after talks in Doha on Friday called on the Ghani administration to enter into negotiations with the Taliban in a bid to accelerate a political solution to the conflict. However, just as the troika was releasing its statement, top Afghan government officials accused the Taliban and Pakistan of collaborating
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 1, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan attacked and overran a key army base in southeastern Ghazni province Saturday, capturing dozens of soldiers and killing several others. The latest attack came on a day when the United States and NATO partners formally began withdrawing their militaries from the country
Radio Free Afghanistan April 30, 2021 A huge car-bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar killed at least 26 people on April 30, officials said. The blast at a guest house in the provincial capital of Pul-e Alam also injured 60 people, said Hasibullah Stanekzai, the head of Logar’s provincial council, and police officer
Ariana: At least seven people were killed by unknown armed men after Tarawih prayers in northern Baghlan province, sources said Friday. Baghlan police told Ariana News that the Taliban militants opened fire on worshipers outside a mosque in the Khinjan district of the province on Thursday evening. Click here to read more (external link). Related
NPR: When it started, the boy had been dozing on a mat in a room crammed with family visiting for a wedding. When it ended, his uncle and five other relatives, including small children, were dead. Ras-Mohammad Dost recounts what happened late that night in February 2009 when Australian elite forces approached his family’s compound…
Radio Free Afghanistan April 26, 2021 An Afghan provincial governor says 16 people, mostly young boys and teenagers, were wounded after a rocket landed in his office compound in the eastern province of Kunar. Governor Mohammad Iqbal Saeed told RFE/RL that the attack in the provincial capital, Asadabad, took place at 9:30 a.m. local time
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 24, 2021 Officials in Afghanistan on April 24 described a wave of attacks that killed at least 22 people in five provinces over the previous 24 hours as violence continued to plague efforts to hammer out a path to peace. Bombings by Taliban militants have surged since U.S. President Joe
Frud Bezhan Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 22, 2021 Afghanistan’s powerful former warlords are remobilizing their old militias in anticipation of what many expect to be a bloody new chapter in a decades-old conflict. Armed groups loyal to regional and local strongmen have rearmed and reappeared in the country’s northern, western, and central
Radio Free Afghanistan April 20, 2021 At least 12 members of the Afghan security forces were killed in overnight attacks, officials said on April 20. In the northern province of Badakhshan, at least eight police officers were killed and two wounded after militants attacked a checkpoint in Zebak district, according to member of provincial government
Tolo News: The last two decades of conflicts in Afghanistan has taken tens of thousands of lives from civilians to security force members and from international troops to the Taliban. Figures by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission indicate that 31,113 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in the past 13 years and 62,662 more were wounded.