8am: The foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, has warned of the military presence of the United States in the region, calling on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan not to permit US military base and NATO on their soil. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: More than 40 business people have been abducted in the city of Kabul and across the country over the past two months. The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) said these traders have been kidnapped in Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Kunduz, Herat and Balk provinces. Click here to read more (external link).
Al Jazeera: As one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan, the Hazara people have endured various forms of oppression from Pashtun rulers and governments, including slavery, systematic expulsion from ancestral homes and lands, and massacres. These experiences have led some to consider Hazaras to be one of the “most persecuted people in the world”.
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 27, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Zalmay Khalilzad, the senior U.S. official who led the negotiations with the Taliban, blamed, for the most part, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s “intransigence,” the Afghan elite’s “selfishness” and Afghan soldiers’ lack of will to fight for the rapid Taliban military takeover of the country in August. “We
Press TV October 27, 2021 Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has expressed grief over the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, saying the United States is certainly involved in the ongoing insecurity in the war-torn country. Raeisi made the remarks during separate meetings with the visiting foreign ministers of Pakistan and Tajikistan in Tehran on Tuesday, as high-ranking
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. October 27. 2021 A senior Pentagon official said it is unclear whether the Taliban has the capability to fight the Islamic State extremist group effectively, even if it is clear that the two groups are “mortal enemies.” Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, told a congressional committee on October 26 that the
Michael Scollon Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 26, 2021 The Taliban has been criticized for including some notoriously shady characters in Afghanistan’s acting government, perhaps none more than Sirajuddin Haqqani, a designated terrorist last photographed hiding behind a plant. In his first public appearance since he was named the Taliban’s interior minister in
Press TV October 26, 2021 By Syed Zafar Mehdi With the last US troops beating a hasty and humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, the war has entered a new phase, where Americans and Daesh terrorists find themselves on the same side. The resurgence of Daesh terrorist group, on the back of the US exit, has created
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that the attacks against Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority perpetrated by an affiliate of the Islamic State group amount to crimes against humanity. Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-K) has claimed responsibility for some of the worst recent attacks in Afghanistan, including suicide bombings among Shi’ite
8am: Ghor local sources say an armed group has targeted three members of former uprising members in an ambush that killed two of them and injured another one. The three ex-uprising members have been ambushed in the Maidan Barakhana area in the center of Ghor on Saturday, (October 23), according to the information. Click here