Arab ethnic minority of Afghanistan in Faryab province saying Taliban torturing and accusing them of links with ISIS. An elderly man while cring says the Taliban, hang if you proved we have ties with ISIS. He says Taliban electrified my son. pic.twitter.com/SJSKWZRyMt — Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) December 8, 2021
8am: According to the sources, the young man was 22-years-old and a resident of Gilem Baf village in the outskirt of the district. In recent days, the rate of targeted killings has been increased in different provinces. Click here to read more (external link). Related A 10-Year-Old Child Decapitated in Takhar Province
Frud Bezhan Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 14, 2021 MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — Women banned from going outside alone. Girls barred from attending school. Unmarried women forced to marry fighters. This was life for many Afghans under the Taliban’s brutal regime in the 1990s when the fundamentalist Islamist group conquered much of Afghanistan.
CNN: The victims were members of an Afghan Special Forces unit: their executioners, the Taliban. The summary killings took place on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad in Faryab province, close to Afghanistan’s border with Turkmenistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan Police Officer Fights Taliban Alone for 18 Hours
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 29, 2021 Afghan security forces have retaken control of three districts in the north of the country after days of heavy fighting with Taliban militants. The Taliban has taken control of dozens of districts from government forces in recent weeks, raising concerns that the Western-backed government in Kabul and the
Tolo News: With the centers of many districts in Faryab now under Taliban control, clashes have begun in the city of Maimana in the northern province, increasing the alarm of Faryab residents and lawmakers from the province in Kabul, who say that urgent action by the security forces is needed. Click here to read more
By Radio Free Afghanistan June 8, 2021 The Taliban has captured another district center in Afghanistan, adding to the insurgent group’s recent military gains since the start of the withdrawal of international troops from the war-torn country. Government forces abandoned the center of the Dawlat Abad district in the northern province of Faryab and retreated to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 6, 2021 At least 14 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed and another 18 wounded in a Taliban attack in Qaisar district of the northern province of Faryab, local officials said on June 6. The militants “have also taken 37 security force members as captive,” said Nader
Tolo News: The Afghan government, facing widespread protests, has agreed to recall newly-appointed governor Mohammad Daud Laghmani to Kabul and to authorize the deputy governor to lead the province, for the time being, a member of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Junbish-e-Milli) said. Enayatullah Babur Farahmand said that the government has also agreed to
Tolo News: The protests in Faryab entered their ninth day on Sunday and demonstrators took a vote for a new governor of the northern province. Faryab is currently facing unrest because of President Ashraf Ghani’s appointment of Mohammad Daud Laghmani, a non-resident, as a new governor. At least four names were reportedly put on the unofficial