By Jeff Seldin, Nike Ching, Ayaz Gul VOA News / May 25, 2021 PENTAGON/STATE DEPARTMENT/ISLAMABAD – More than three weeks into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Washington’s plans to help ensure the country does not descend into chaos remain murky despite a ramped-up effort to get Afghanistan’s neighbors — Pakistan in particular — to do
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 25, 2021 Afghan officials say local commandos have released 41 people from a Taliban prison in the country’s western province of Herat. Jilani Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor, told RFE/RL on May 25 that 19 members of the Afghan security forces were among those freed during the overnight operation in
Ariana: US forces have begun construction of a large military base across the Durand Line, as international troops continue to withdraw from Afghanistan, sources said. According to the sources, the base is being built at the Shalozan Kurram Agency area in the Tribal Area inside Pakistan – in the Zazai Aryub district which borders Paktia
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 22, 2021 The death toll from bombings outside a high school in the Afghan capital has risen to 100 dead and 160 wounded, says the office of Sarwar Danish, Afghanistan’s second vice president. Three powerful bombs detonated outside the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in Kabul on May 8 as students, many of them
AP: What would the United States do, for example, if the Taliban took advantage of the U.S. military departure by seizing power? And, can the United States and the international community, through diplomacy and financial aid alone, prevent a worsening of the instability in Afghanistan that kept American and coalition troops there for two decades?
Radio Free Afghanistan May 21, 2021 Taliban fighters have overrun another district in Afghanistan’s central province of Maidan Wardak after heavy fighting with government forces. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on May 21 that control of the Jalrez district was now in the hands of the group’s fighters. Some 25 government soldiers surrendered to the
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 20, 2021 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Taliban insurgents have captured a district in eastern Afghanistan and negotiated a temporary truce with government forces in another, as U.S.-led foreign troops continue to withdraw from the country. Separately, a roadside bomb blast early Thursday killed at least nine civilians, including women and children,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 19, 2021 U.S. lawmakers called for the thousands of allies in Afghanistan to be evacuated from the war-ravaged country before international troops pull out, fearing they could be “slaughtered by the Taliban.” However, the top U.S. envoy to Afghanistan on May 18 played down the dangers to those who worked
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 18, 2021 ISLAMABAD – China has renewed diplomatic efforts to help facilitate a negotiated end to the conflict in Afghanistan, saying it is ready to hold peace negotiations between warring Afghans. Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed peace prospects in phone conversations with his Afghan counterpart, Mohammad Haneef Atmar and National
Ariana: A prayer ceremony for Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, the deputy head of the Taliban splinter group in the western part of the country, was held on Monday at Herat’s Grand Mosque. “If someone is who fights against the government is being killed, we let their families or relatives to burry,” Herat governor Abdul Wahid