Reuters video description: Some 2,000 Afghans in Ghazni protest against the brutal killing of seven members of the mainly Shia Hazara ethnic group, among some 80 people killed in clashes between rival Taliban groups and Islamic State sympathizers in recent days. Mana Rabiee reports.
Press TV | November 10, 2015 Afghans have held a major demonstration in the southeastern province of Ghazni, protesting against a recent beheading of Shia Muslims by militants in the violence-wracked country, Press TV reports. On Tuesday, large crowds of protesters poured onto the streets of the provincial city of Ghazni to voice their outrage against
Khaama Press | November 10, 2015 The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency says it has freed eight more hostages of the group of 31 kidnapped by gunmen in February. A statement released by NDS states that the release of five men, two women and a young boy was secured on Tuesday.
Al Jazeera: There are deep tribal, religious and traditional impediments for ISIL to make headway in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
TASS: Plans of the Islamic State, an international terrorist organization outlawed in Russia, to establish a province in northern Afghanistan pose a threat to Central Asian states, Iran and China, Yevgeny Sysoyev, a deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Security Service and chief of the administration of the National Anti-terrorist Committee, said on Tuesday. Click here
QALAT, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 (Xinhua)– A suicide bomber loyal to the so-called Islamic State or Daesh targeted Taliban militants in Khak-e-Afghan district of the southern Zabul province on Tuesday, killing a senior Taliban commander and injuring another, police chief of southern zone Abdul Razeq said. “A militant loyal to Daesh strapped explosive device in his
Tolo News: Dozens of Nangarhar University students in an unprecedented move on Sunday raised the flags of Taliban, Daesh and Hizb-e-Islami militant groups in a rally they staged against the government. The protesting students – many of them wearing masks used by Taliban and Daesh – said they were tired of the government and they want an
VOA News Ayaz Gul November 09, 2015 ISLAMABAD—Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has condemned the beheading of a group of civilians by Islamic State militants in a southern region, scene of recent deadly clashes between rival Taliban factions. Local police in Zabul province reported Sunday that IS fighters brutally murdered seven people, including three women, in
Khaama Press | November 09, 2015 The Taliban militants have reportedly hanged eight of the group’s fighters for beheading seven hostages in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan. According to the local government officials in Zabul province, the militants were hanged by fighters belonging to Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansoor. The district administrative chief for Arghandab, Mohammad
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 08, 2015 The new leader of an Afghan Taliban splinter faction has offered words of support for Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda militants, but says that they are not welcome to operate in Afghanistan. Mullah Mohammad Rasul, leader of a dissident Taliban faction calling itself the High Council of