8am: At least eight people have been killed over the past 24 hours in separate incidents in some provinces of Afghanistan, sources reported. In the first case, two women and one man were murdered by unknown individuals in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province on Sunday. The victims’ bodies were found Monday by the local residents.
8am: 11 people with severed heads were found in the Pachiragam district of eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Sources say that these bodies were found on Wednesday (September 30th) in the Barghuli area, Pachiragam district, Nangarhar province. Another source, who does not want to be identified, reports that the number of these bodies is 23. According
8am: Reliable sources from Helmand province say that 800,000 US dollars have been stolen from Hedayatullah Badri, known as Haji Gul Agha’s residency. Another source also confirms that Hedayatullah Badri is one of the partners of Haji Bashar Noorzai, one of the very beloved drug lords being supported by the Taliban who is recently released
HRW: Delay in a critical International Criminal Court (ICC) ruling has protracted the wait of Afghans seeking some measure of justice for grave international crimes. In the 16 years since the court’s prosecutor first began considering potential cases in Afghanistan, the conflict in Afghanistan has been marked by a laundry list of war crimes and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 3, 2022 The United Nations has called on the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan to investigate allegations of the forced marriage and abuse of a medical student by an ex-Taliban official that has sparked strong condemnation by many Afghans. “We call on the de facto authorities to transparently investigate all alleged
8am: Civil activists in Samangan province voice their deep concerns over the selling of drugs by young boys in the province who are being employed to do so by the criminal gangs. Samiullah Samangani, a civil activist for the province, told Hasht-e Subh on Saturday that the selling drugs by criminal gangs have increased in
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 2, 2022 A young Afghan woman has accused a Taliban official of beating, raping, and forcibly marrying her in a video that has gone viral. Elaha Delawazai, a medical student at Kabul University, made the allegations against former Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosty in a video that surfaced on social
8am: The Taliban have whipped a man and a woman in Takhar province in northern Afghanistan for having alleged relations. Sources say that the Taliban whipped the man and woman 50 times on Thursday afternoon (August 25th) at the central intersection of Darqad city. Local residents say that there is no evidence that these people
8am: Local sources in Takhar province have reported that a Taliban commander has raped a woman in this province. This Taliban commander’s name is Gulzar Gajar, he had entered the victim’s house under the pretext of the house-to-house search operation. Due to the fear of the Taliban, the localities and villagers have remained silent and
The Washington Times: Police have identified the man arrested in two of a string of killings of Muslim men in the past year — another Muslim. Muhammad Syed [an Afghan], 51, has reportedly been charged with murder in the deaths of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to local Muslim leaders cited in