NYT: Commandos who played a key role in helping American forces are waiting for visas in the United Arab Emirates, and are among the last of the evacuated Afghans to get a chance to reach the United States. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Sources in Herat confirm that Habib-ur-Rahman Malikzada, the former police chief of Taywarah district in Ghor province, was assassinated in Herat city. Malikzada had earlier fought against the Taliban for several years in the Tywarah district of Ghor province and lived in Herat after the country fell to the Taliban. Click here to read
Reuters: Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Saturday in the western Afghan city of Herat, it said in a post on Telegram on Sunday. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 22, 2022 Seven Afghan civilians have been killed and nine injured in Herat city after a bomb attached to a packed minivan exploded. Sabet Herawi, a Taliban intelligence official in Herat Province, told RFE/RL that the cause of the explosion on January 22 was a magnetic mine attached to the vehicle’s
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 19, 2022 A Taliban commander and three other people were killed when a man opened fire on a vehicle in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar Province, a local Taliban official said on January 19. The incident occurred in the Narang district of Kunar, the Taliban director of information and culture in the
8am: Sources in Maimana confirmed that a civilian named Parwiz was killed and a woman was wounded during the clash among Taliban members in the city. Family members of the slain man stated that Parwiz has been killed by Pashtun Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Taliban's most senior Uzbek commander Makhdoom Alam has been arrested in Mazar-e-Sharif Wednesday based on an order by Mullah Fazel, Taliban's deputy defense minister.Following his arrest, hundreds of disgruntled people took to the streets of Faryab's Maimana city in protest. pic.twitter.com/aA9pw14Wq6 — Afghanistan Times (@AfghanistanTime) January 13, 2022 Taliban fighters of the Uzbek nation took
Ayaz Gul January 11, 2022 VOA News ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government has asked Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to return air force planes and helicopters flown to the neighboring countries by fleeing pilots as the U.S.-backed government in Kabul collapsed last August. Addressing an Afghan air force ceremony in the capital Tuesday, Taliban Defense Minister Mohammad
Tolo News: Attending in the graduation of 500 army force members in Herat province, Islamic Emirate Chief of Staff Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat said that Afghanistan has at least 80,000 army members who are currently settled in eight corps across the country. The chief of staff further said that the government will attempt to build an
8am: The Taliban forces faced a military response from the Turkmen border forces when they went to the border of Khamab district to check the security situation this morning. For the past month, Turkmenistan has been the third neighboring country to be attacked by Taliban forces. Click here to read more (external link).