By Abubakar Siddique June 11, 2024 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The Taliban government has cracked down on rival Islamist parties in Afghanistan in what is seen as an effort to prevent any future opposition to its hard-line rule. Since banning all political parties last year, the Taliban has targeted two of its major former rivals. It
8am: Firstly, this move marks one of the most significant actions by Al-Qaeda in recent years. Saif al-Adl’s call, implying a resurgence of Al-Qaeda, or at least an attempt at it, under the Taliban’s flag, does not seem to have happened without Taliban cooperation. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban’s Welcoming Embrace
8am: The Hasht-e Subh Daily’s findings from Herat, confirmed by sources within the Taliban, reveal that ISIS has significantly infiltrated the Taliban, particularly its intelligence service. These findings show that on the first day of the attack on the Mohammadia mosque, five individuals were arrested from two locations in Herat province on charges of membership
8am: The Hazara residents of this area in Ghazni have condemned the Taliban’s decision as unjust. They stress that nomads (Kuchis) have occupied hundreds of acres of government land around Ghazni city and settled there, yet the Taliban deliberately overlook this while falsely labeling private lands as usurped. It is noteworthy that in less than
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 9, 2024 By Frud Bezhan and Shapoor Saber One of the Taliban’s first acts after seizing power in 2021 was to rename the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Since then, the militant Islamist group has changed the names of scores of prominent streets, squares, universities, and even a city.
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 5, 2024 ISLAMABAD — A senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan, wanted by the United States for terrorism, has concluded a rare visit to the United Arab Emirates, where he met with the host country’s leadership, an Afghan official said Wednesday. Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani traveled abroad for the first time since
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi June 5, 2024 The Taliban has publicly flogged dozens of people in a sports stadium in northern Afghanistan after their convictions for crimes involving “immoral relations.” In a statement, the Taliban’s Supreme Court said 63 people, including 15 women, were flogged in Sar-e Pol Province in the presence of local officials on
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi June 4, 2024 Atel hauls a wooden cart every day around the Afghan capital, Kabul, selling vegetables. The 70-year-old pensioner retired around five years ago. But since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban has stopped paying pensions. That has forced thousands of pensioners like Atel back to work, often as street vendors,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda June 3, 2024 A centrist Iranian newspaper has accused a Taliban representative in Iran of “torturing” a photographer, ultimately leading to his expulsion from the country. The Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper claimed on June 1 that a Taliban representative in the Afghan Consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad had “dragged” the unnamed Iranian photographer
Ariana: The risk of penetration of radical ideology from Afghanistan into the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is increasing, said Rustam Emomali, chairman of Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament. Addressing the Council of the Parliament Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Almaty, Emomali said that more than 1,000 religious