8am: In less than 24 hours, three women have committed suicide in Takhar, Uruzgan and Daikundi provinces. Apparently, domestic violence has been cited as the reason for these suicides. Mass poverty, lack of education, chronic unemployment and dozens of other difficulties have left women with no choice but to commit suicide. Click here to read
8am: Sources in the Balkhab district of Sar-e-Pul province have confirmed that the Taliban have moved their reserve forces inside the villages. These fighters use Shiite Hazara mosques, religious schools, schools and even health centers as their military bases. According to the sources, the Taliban have deployed an estimated 1,000 fighters in the villages of
8am: Relief workers who have voluntarily gone to the remote mountains to help the displaced people of Balkhab for the past four days express their concern over the loss of more children. Those who have visited the Hazar chashma, Dozdan chashma, Sarsalakh, Abqol, Gandaji, Sokhta, Zardsang, Pitab and Pudina villages in the Yekawlang district of
8am: During the house-to-house search operations, the Taliban have taken away the properties of civilians, especially their vehicles, and named them as war booty, sources reported Saturday. According to the sources, the families living in Balkhab had hidden their cars and motorcycles in the village of Lalander and Sorkhak Balaq when they fled from the
UN: The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard. Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll:
8am: Sarajul Haq Hakimi, a former soldier, is shot dead by the Taliban rebels in Pul-e- Khumri city, the center of Baghlan province, sources reported Saturday. He was shot while going to the evening prayers in Qol Nawabad area in the second district of Pul-e- Khumri city. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The Taliban rebels have arrested and severely tortured a young man in Badakhshan province, sources in the province report. Sources reported Saturday that the detainee’s name is Ezatullah and was arrested a few days ago in Shuhada district of this province by the Taliban. According to the sources, the Taliban have tortured him after
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique July 1, 2022 Residents and international human rights watchdogs are criticizing the Taliban for grave rights abuses that have been reported in its military campaign against a dissident commander in a remote part of northern Afghanistan. Civilians in Balkhab, a rural district in the Sar-e Pul Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio
Aamaj: Relatives of the victims said that the incident took place in Char Qala Char Dehe neighborhood in Kabul, last night. They added that Taliban arrested another brother of them, and their father who is suffering from cancer; took them in an unknown whereabouts. They added their situation is not known as well. Click here
8am: Sources in Kabul have confirmed that the Taliban group has arrested Wali Ahmad Sarih, a spokesperson of the former Nangarhar Police Command. The motive behind his arrest is not yet clear, sources said. According to the sources, this is the 10th young man from Andarab who has been detained by the Taliban in Kabul