Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 17, 2021 Two explosions hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, on November 17, killing one person and wounding six others, Afghan media said. The casualties were reported in the first blast that occurred in the mainly Hazara neighborhood of Dasht-e Barchi in Kabul’s west, TOLOnews said, citing a Taliban official. Three
The New Arab: Mohammad Sardar Mubariz, a district police chief in Jawzjan, told AFP the man would target poor women desperate to improve their circumstances. Crime, nepotism and corruption are not new in Afghanistan but rising poverty is undermining the Taliban government’s claim to legitimacy. Click here to read (external link). Other Crime News A
Reuters: Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the company’s threat investigators said in an interview with Reuters. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Sanaullah, a relative of the victims, said his father and younger brother were killed. “One of them was my father and the other one my younger brother. Daesh members were living in a house and there was an explosion, and they were killed in that explosion,” he said. Click here to read more
8am: “The difficult situation in Afghanistan and the recent terrorist incidents indicate that we are still a long way from establishing lasting peace and strengthening security and stability,” he said. Karzai called the recent attacks in Kunduz, Kandahar, Kabul, and Nangarhar provinces a conspiracy against Afghanistan to perpetuate instability. Click here to read more (external
8am: The bodies of the two women were found on Saturday in the first district of Gardez. Earlier, former soldiers expressed concern about their security, saying they have been persecuted, detained and assassinated by Taliban forces. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News November 12, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan does not need a large military anymore and would not keep all the people who worked in the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) under the previous administration, said the Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Friday in Islamabad. “The army that was created by
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 12, 2021 At least two people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a blast inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, officials say. The explosion occurred during Friday Prayers in the village of Tarela in Nangarhar’s Spin Ghar district on November 12. Local officials who
Press TV November 10, 2021 Iran’s security chief says the United States and its coalition allies must be held accountable for the myriad of crises Afghanistan is facing today, adding the “least responsibility” they bear is to compensate for all the damage they have inflicted on the Afghan people over the past two decades. Secretary
Reuters: Tajik officials blamed U.S. bureaucracy on Wednesday for a near three-month delay in evacuating U.S.-trained Afghan pilots, who had flown their aircraft to Tajikistan to escape the Taliban takeover of their country in August. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban urge ex-Afghan military pilots to stay, serve nation Afghan Pilots Land