8am: Amnesty International in its latest probe said that on June 26, the Taliban killed at least 6 civilians affiliated with the Hazara community in Ghor province. In the continuation of this report, it is stated that the Taliban have arrested and executed four men in a night operation following the search for a former
8am: Local sources say that the residents of Khwaja Bahauddin district, in cooperation with the residents of other districts of Takhar province, have forced the usurper nomadic families to flee from the area. The armed nomads had usurped the houses of the people of Khwaja Bahauddin, Takhar province by force for several days and the
8am: According to sources, the Taliban has allocated 3,020 acres of land to build a township for the nomads and have started the process of land distribution. In the distribution inauguration ceremony of these lands, the Taliban said that the caretaker government of the Taliban will provide health and educational services to the nomads living
Foreign Affairs: The Forces That Could Threaten the Taliban’s Control – Peering ahead, a renewed civil war could take many forms. One is the resumption of decades-long fighting between the Taliban, which is composed primarily of Pashtuns, and resistance groups based in the country’s north that tend to draw from Afghanistan’s Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek
8am: Khaled Zadran, the spokesman of the Taliban security command in Kabul province, said that on Saturday night, September 10, a mine planted in a bicycle exploded near a Corolla car, injuring three people. It is reported that the explosion has taken place in the Pol-e-Khusk area of Dasht-e-Barch, a Hazara dominated area where the
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 8, 2022 The Taliban’s Finance Ministry wants its employees to be more than number crunchers — it’s requiring that everyone in its ranks must pass a test of faith to stay employed. A source within the ministry has provided RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi with a letter detailing orders for all employees to be given
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 6, 2022 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned of repeated attacks on religious minorities in Afghanistan by a local affiliate of the militant group Islamic State and the ruling Taliban’s failure to protect those communities. It points to “numerous brutal attacks against members of the Hazara community” by fighters loyal
Kearney Hub: Sikhs and Hindus make up only a tiny fraction of the population of Afghanistan, which is almost entirely Muslim. Under the Taliban in the late 1990s, they were asked to identify themselves by wearing yellow armbands or badges, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, and in recent years they have been repeatedly targeted by extremists.
8am: Residents of the districts along the Kokcha River (Dasht Qala, Rustaq, Yengi Qala, Darqad, Chah Aab and Khwaja Bahauddin) in Takhar province report that during the course of the last year, about 700 Kuchi families – Pashtun Nomads – have been settled in Khwaja Bahauddin and Dasht Qala districts. The Taliban have set a
8am: According to sources, the Taliban group launched this search operation on Friday night in the areas of Rastaqabad, Sardawra, Karte Faizabad and University Alley. Sources have added that the Taliban have searched only the Tajik areas of this city with ethnic segregation. Click here to read more (external link).