Ayaz Gul VOA News May 7, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Tuesday that recent militant attacks in the country, including a deadly suicide car bombing on Chinese engineers, were planned from “terrorist sanctuaries” in Afghanistan. Major-General Ahmed Sharif, spokesperson for Pakistan’s military, leveled the allegations during a live broadcast news conference. He said Afghanistan’s Taliban government
Afghanistan International: Reliable sources from Balkhab district in Sar-e-Pul province, reported to Afghanistan International that the Taliban officials have detained and tortured at least 14 local residents. The families of these detainees have not been allowed to visit them for weeks. According to local sources, several operatives of the Taliban’s intelligence department, masquerading as mining
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 5, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban leaders have threatened to militarily suppress unprecedented violent public protests in a northeastern border region against a nationwide ban on poppy cultivation. The unrest erupted last Friday when the Taliban’s anti-narcotics forces began destroying poppy fields in Badakhshan province, prompting angry farmers to resist
Khaama: People protests in Badakhshan’s Darayim district entered their second day on Saturday, May 4th. Residents claim the Taliban took five community leaders under the pretext of discussing protesters’ demands, but their fate remains unknown. Residents express concern over the detention of these five community leaders. Anti-Taliban protests in Darayim, Badakhshan, began on Friday, May
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 30, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that an overnight attack on a Shiite mosque in a western region bordering Iran had killed at least six people, including a child. An Interior Ministry spokesman reported that an “unknown armed person” stormed the mosque in the Guzara district in
CNN: For two years, the US military has insisted that the loss of life was caused by a single explosion, and that troops who reported coming under fire and returning it were likely confused in the chaotic aftermath, some suffering from the effects of blast concussion. But video captured by a Marine’s GoPro camera that
8am: Meanwhile, some Hazaras and other Shiites express concerns about the continuation of ISIS attacks, describing the Taliban as unsuccessful in ensuring people’s security. They argue that under this group’s rule, people have no refuge and are even afraid to raise their voices of suffering and pain due to fear of the Taliban. Click here
Afghanistan International: ISIS has claimed responsibility for the recent explosion that struck the Koht-e Sange area in western Kabul on Saturday evening. The group’s statement detailed that the attack resulted in casualties among the Taliban, with 10 people reported killed or injured. The attack targeted a civilian bus as it passed through a Taliban checkpoint
AP: A sticky bomb exploded in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing one person and wounding three others, a police official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall on the Islamic State group. Its affiliate in the region has in the past
8am: Reports indicate that the Taliban guards opened fire on civilians who were attempting to prevent the destruction of a wheat silo. Allegedly, the silo was being demolished to facilitate the widening of the Kandahar-Herat highway. This incident follows yesterday’s occurrence in Paktia, where four civilians were also wounded due to Taliban gunfire targeting civilians.