Frud Bezhan Radio Azadi July 19, 2021 MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — Safia and her three young children live out in the open, exposed to the punishing summer heat, with no food or water. She fled her home in Afghanistan’s northern city of Kunduz after it was struck last week by mortars, which killed her husband,
Radio Azadi July 15, 2021 The Taliban has proposed a three-month cease-fire in exchange for the release of 7,000 of its fighters, an Afghan government negotiator said, as the militant group captured a key border crossing with Pakistan in a sweeping offensive ahead of the August 31 deadline for the pullout of U.S. forces from
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 7, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Authorities in Afghanistan said Wednesday that pro-government forces had pushed back Taliban insurgents from parts of a northwestern city and regained control of official buildings after hours of fierce clashes. Fighting erupted in parts of Qala-e-Naw, the capital of Badghis province, after the Taliban assaulted it
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 6, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan’s national security chief said Tuesday that “teething problems” stemming from the withdrawal of U.S.-led foreign troops were behind recent rapid Taliban territorial gains and his government was working to overcome them. U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered all American soldiers to leave the war-torn South
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 5, 2021 Tajikistan will reinforce its border with an additional 20,000 troops in response to a Taliban offensive capturing large swaths of territory in northern Afghanistan as U.S. troops exit the country. Underscoring the rapid collapse of Afghan security forces, more than 1,000 Afghan troops fled into Tajikistan overnight, Tajik
By Radio Free Afghanistan June 29, 2021 The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has not ruled out conducting air strikes against the Taliban if the insurgents press on with their campaign to seize territory across the war-torn country. The Taliban has taken control of dozens of districts from government forces in recent weeks, raising
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 28, 2021 Another group of Afghan government soldiers has fled across the border into Tajikistan as Taliban militants press an offensive across swaths of northern Afghanistan. Tajikistan’s border service said that 17 Afghan soldiers fled into the country on June 27 after Taliban militants attacked a border checkpoint located in the town
Antiwar.com: The problem is not that the US is leaving. The problem is that American personnel stayed too long attempting to do the impossible. In the process they created a dependent state unable to stand on its own. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Afghanistan June 27, 2021 Taliban forces have captured more than 50 members of the country’s security forces in the central province of Maidan Wardak , a senior police commander told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan. Colonel Mustafa Mayar, the chief police commander in Maidan Wardak, said on June 27 that the Afghan security officers
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 26, 2021 Local aid officials in north Afghanistan said on June 26 that thousands of families have been displaced as government troops battle Taliban militants for control of the key city of Kunduz. Taliban militants have already captured districts that surround Kunduz, which has briefly fallen under insurgents’ control at