Ariana: Afghanistan will transfer seven ‘hardcore’ prisoners to Qatar, officials from the Afghan government and members of the Taliban told Reuters on Thursday. According to one official, the prisoners would be released soon although government did not want to free them on the grounds that they had killed foreign soldiers, Reuters reported. The officials told
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 1, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Taliban insurgents have staged a suicide car bombing and armed assault against a police base in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three security officers and injuring several others. Tuesday’s attack in the border province of Paktia came hours after U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 1, 2020 Afghan officials say they have released about another 100 Taliban prisoners as part of a prisoner swap meant to clear the way for the start of peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban. Afghan officials have described the remaining prisoners as the most dangerous, accusing them of masterminding
Tolo News: The nominees for minister positions: Bashir Ahmad Tahyanj, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Nisar Ahmad Ghoryani, Ministry of Industry and Commerce Qudratullah Zaki, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Masooma Khawari, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Anwar-Ul-Haq Ahadi, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Fazl Ahmad Manawi, Ministry of Justice Syed Sadat
Tolo News: The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), citing reports by Afghan agencies, said that nearly half of all police forces in the southern regions of Afghanistan are using drugs. “Afghanistan’s General Directorate for Internal Security, partnering with National Directorate of Security, found that approximately 50% of police in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand
The Christian Science Monitor: Afghanistan’s government has a delicate balancing act. As it jockeys for position ahead of talks with the Taliban, it must maintain support from both progressive and conservative segments of the Afghan people. In the late 1990s, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, the hard-line Islamists imposed a range of restrictions on Afghan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 20, 2020 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says that “all barriers and excuses have been removed” ahead of expected peace talks between the government in Kabul and the Taliban militants. In a televised message to Afghan security forces on August 20, Ghani said his government had “met all conditions for a
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 19, 2020 KABUL — Police say two sticky bombs that targeted Afghan government employees in Kabul killed two people on August 19 and wounded two others. The attacks came a day after a rocket salvo that hit residential and diplomatic areas in the city claimed the lives of three people
Tolo News: On the threshold of the intra-Afghan talks, which are expected to be held on Doha in the near future, the Taliban on Saturday issued a statement saying the group does not recognize the Afghan government as a legitimate system. The statement was apparently issued in response to a recent statement by the Afghan
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 7, 2020 ISLAMABAD – A traditional public assembly, known as a Loya Jirga, opened in Afghanistan Friday to determine whether a last set of 400 hard-core prisoners from the Taliban insurgency should be freed to clear the way for long-awaited direct peace talks between Afghanistan’s warring sides. Afghan President Ashraf