Ayaz Gul VOA News May 7, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Tuesday that recent militant attacks in the country, including a deadly suicide car bombing on Chinese engineers, were planned from “terrorist sanctuaries” in Afghanistan. Major-General Ahmed Sharif, spokesperson for Pakistan’s military, leveled the allegations during a live broadcast news conference. He said Afghanistan’s Taliban government
Michael Scollon Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 5, 2024 Shortly after the Taliban seized power, Russia addressed the question of whether it was time to review the militant group’s status as a terrorist organization. “It is very important to see what the Taliban’s first steps in governing Afghanistan will be like,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
8am: The claim of providing security has long been a tool in the hands of the Taliban, extending from the distant past to the present. By exploiting this notion and portraying themselves as worthy rulers, this group has also deceived some countries. However, the realities on the ground over the past nearly three years show
Khaama: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR, has written in a new report that anti-Taliban groups do not have foreign support and strong leadership. However, SIGAR stated that resistance groups have taken responsibility for 43 attacks against the Taliban in the past three months. The report by the United States Special Inspector
Stars and Stripes: ISIS-K is taking advantage of poor economic conditions and instability in Afghanistan that came after the Taliban seized the country from the U.S.-backed government in 2021, said Kamran Bokhari, senior director of the Eurasian Security and Prosperity program at the Washington-based New Lines Institute. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The inability of the anti-Taliban military fronts to gain geographical footholds can be attributed to many factors, but a significant one is the lack of cohesion among these fronts. The Afghanistan Freedom Front and the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) are fighting in practice to either compel the Taliban to negotiate or overthrow
Tolo News: Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, told TOLOnews that Monday’s attack on a Shia mosque in the Guzara district of Herat does not signify the strengthening of Daesh in Afghanistan. The spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate described the attack as a crime and said that efforts to find the perpetrators of
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 30, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that an overnight attack on a Shiite mosque in a western region bordering Iran had killed at least six people, including a child. An Interior Ministry spokesman reported that an “unknown armed person” stormed the mosque in the Guzara district in
Daily Mail (UK): The leader of the anti-Taliban resistance in Afghanistan has issued a chilling warning that a new terrorist attack on America is a matter of ‘when not if’. Ahmad Massoud said terrorism is ‘breeding’ in the vacuum left by the U.S. pulling out in August 2021 and it is ‘very possible ‘ extremists
Afghanistan International: The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced on Sunday that it had attacked a Taliban checkpoint in the Qoway Markaz area of Kabul. The Front stated on social media platform X that four Taliban members had been killed in the attack, and two others had been injured. The anti-Taliban group also released a video