By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service October 4, 2021 Taliban fighters have reportedly killed an Afghan man who tried to flee to neighboring Tajikistan and detained another man along the Afghan-Tajik border. A source in the city of Ishkashim in Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan, which borders Tajikistan, told RFE/RL on October 3 that the incidents occurred the
RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 11, 2021 The Taliban has captured the airport of the strategic northern provincial capital of Kunduz, where hundreds of members of the Afghan security forces reportedly surrendered to the militants as President Ashraf Ghani replaced the army chief of staff. Amid a string of rapid advances by the militants across Afghanistan,
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News July 25, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The day the Taliban entered Balkh district, 20 km west of Mazar e Sharif, the capital of Balkh province last month, local radio station Nawbahar shuttered its doors and most of its journalists went into hiding. Within days the station started broadcasting again, but the programming
Frud Bezhan Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 9, 2021 FAIZABAD, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s vast and remote northern province of Badakhshan — which straddles the borders with Pakistan, China, and Tajikistan — was once a bastion of resistance to the Taliban and never conquered by the extremist Islamist group during its five years in
Tolo News: On the fourth day of protests in Badakhshan, demonstrators–who have set up a tent in the city of Faizabad–called for the dismissal of the current governor in the province. They reiterated their original demands for security, electricity, and water. The governor of Badakhshan said that the protest is against the government and that
Ariana: Taliban militants captured the Arghanjkha district of Badakhshan province on Wednesday evening, sources said. The government, however, stated that the Afghan Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) retreated from the district following two days of heavy clashes with the militants. Click here to read more (external link). Related Report: Pentagon considering use of warplanes, drones
Tolo News: An Afghan forces airstrike killed at least 12 members of the public uprising forces in a so-called “friendly fire” incident in the northeastern province of Badakhshan on Friday, sources from the province said Saturday. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan government airstrike kills civilians in Helmand
Tolo News: Officials said 44 residents of Badakhshan’s Pamir area left the mountainous region in Afghanistan’s northeast and obtained Kyrgyzstan citizenship. They are seeking a better life by leaving their native living style, officials said. Pamir residents said they have been ignored by governments over the last several decades. Click here to read more (external
Radio Free Afghanistan April 20, 2021 At least 12 members of the Afghan security forces were killed in overnight attacks, officials said on April 20. In the northern province of Badakhshan, at least eight police officers were killed and two wounded after militants attacked a checkpoint in Zebak district, according to member of provincial government
Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Afghanistan March 16, 2021 Farmer Abdul Shakur planted green beans in the northern Parwan Province. But the fate of his crop hangs in the balance this year due to a lack of adequate snowfall. The 65-year-old farmer says his seven-member family depends on his small plot of land, one-third of a