Ayaz Gul VOA News April 22, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Clashes between government forces and Taliban insurgents have killed about 60 combatants on both sides, officials in Afghanistan said Wednesday. In a major pre-dawn attack, the Taliban raided army and police outposts in two districts of the northern Sar-e-Pul Province. Provincial governor Abdul Qadir Ashna
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 22, 2020 KABUL — Afghanistan says it has released another 71 Taliban prisoners in a further step toward bringing the two sides together to negotiate a peace settlement. Javed Faisal, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a tweet that detainees had been released from seven prisons in the Nangarhar,
Press TV April 21, 2020 US officials have reportedly expressed concern about a possible failure of Washington’s bid to end its war in Afghanistan if Taliban and government prisoners die of coronavirus infection before being swapped as outlined under a US-Taliban deal. Four sources familiar with the matter said that if Taliban and government prisoners
Tolo News: Local officials in the northern province of Badakhshan on Tuesday said that Daesh and affiliate groups are moving to establish a stronger military presence in the province so they can continue the war against the Afghan security forces. According to the local officials, there are around 400 fighters linked with various ‘terrorist groups’
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News April 20, 2020 ISLAMABAD – As many as 26 members of Afghan local forces or pro-government militias were killed over the past two days in northern Afghanistan in fighting with the Taliban, according to the Ministry of Defense and local officials. On Sunday night, Taliban fighters attacked local Afghan forces in
Tolo News: The Taliban has shared a list of 50 attacks conducted by the US and Afghan forces following the US-Taliban peace deal in late February, accusing the US of violating terms of the deal and thus adding another layer of complication to the already hindered peace process. Click here to read more (external link).
NYT: The United States is considering pulling back front-line C.I.A. personnel from bases in Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials, as part of the American government’s effort to further reduce violence in the country in the wake of its landmark peace agreement with the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Twenty-eight of prisoners released recently by the Taliban had been taken after the group signed a peace deal with the United States in late February, the Afghan government said on Saturday. Under the deal with US, the Taliban committed to release 1,000 Afghan government prisoners in return for 5,000 of their prisoners. The government
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News April 18, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Four-year-old Tanya Kaur woke up her father, Harinder Singh, to tell him she wanted to wear some new clothes to the gurdwara, a Sikh temple. Hours later, Singh watched her succumb to bullet wounds along with his wife and father. “She kept shouting, save me, Daddy,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 17, 2020 Gunmen have shot dead six local contractors who worked at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Wahida Shahkar, the spokeswoman for the governor of Parwan Province, said the incident occurred late April 16 some 500 meters from Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul. Shahkar said the contractors, most