Tolo News: The department of vice and virtue in the western province of Herat ordered shopping malls to remove the heads of mannequins. The department in a statement said that the mannequins are similar to statues and must not be allowed in the markets. Click here to read more (external link).
By Radio Mashaal December 30, 2021 Four Pakistani soldiers have been killed in an attack in the North Waziristan tribal district. The banned Islamist group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the December 30 attack in the Karkanra area of the Mir Ali subdistrict. There were no immediate reports of other casualties. Attacks on police
Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 29, 2021 The Taliban toppled the Western-backed Afghan government in August following a brutal, nearly 20-year insurgency. But the militant group’s war against its former enemy is not over. The Taliban has been accused of killing, torturing, or forcibly disappearing hundreds of members of the former government
#تازهآماج به نوارهایی از کشتار غیرنظامیان و توهین به جسدها از سوی طالبان در پنجشیر دست یافت آماج نیوز به نوارهایی خشنی از پنجشیر دست یافته که نشان میدهد طالبان شماری از غیرنظامیان را کشته و با بوت به روی جسدها پا میگذارند. یادآوری: برخی نوارها به دلیل خشن بودن قابل نشر نیست. pic.twitter.com/mxrYIle9kg —
Dozens of women protested in Kabul on Tuesday in reaction to "discrimination and social injustice against women."#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/jYxFsnawmM — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) December 28, 2021 Ayaz Gul VOA News December 28, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Witnesses say Taliban security forces in Afghanistan fired warning shots Tuesday to disperse a group of female activists in Kabul protesting restrictions placed
By Farangis Najibullah RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service December 28, 2021 Abdul Kabir Wakil Khan traveled from Kazakhstan to the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif in July to help his family members — all ethnic Kazakhs — relocate to their ancestral homeland. Instead, Wakil Khan became stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in the war-torn country
Tolo News: In the past few days, a video showing a military officer of the former government who was arrested being tortured by two men has sparked sharp reactions from social media users. A large number of people on social media platforms have said such actions are clearly in contradiction to the general amnesty
VOA News December 28, 2021 The Taliban on Tuesday released a prominent Afghan TV station owner who was detained for two days, according to the independent media monitoring group Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC). The Taliban did not say why Mohammad Arif Noori, the founder and owner of Noorin TV, was detained. AFJC in a statement
8am: Sources in Badakhshan’s Faizabad city reported an armed clash in the provincial capital. According to locals, the clash lasted for about an hour among Taliban forces in and around Faizabad’s first district. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 27, 2021 Aref Nouri, the head of Afghanistan’s private Nourin television network, has been arrested by the Taliban authorities for unspecified reasons. Nouri’s son, Roman Nouri, told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on December 27 that Taliban security forces arrived at the family’s home in Kabul the day earlier and took his father