8am: According to this directive, the name of Abdul Ali Mazari Airport in Bamyan has been changed to “Bamyan Airport,” Abdul Karim Khalili Airport to “Daikundi Airport,” and General Mahiuddin Ghori Airport to “Sultan Ghiyasuddin Ghori Airport.” Renaming places by the Taliban is not a new practice. Previously, this group changed the names of cities,
8am: Local sources in Takhar report that the Taliban have gunned down a former local police commander of the previous government, Abdul Bashir, and his pregnant wife, who had recently been expelled from Pakistan, in a hail of gunfire in the province. Abdul Bashir had fled to Pakistan after the fall of the previous government
8am: Over the past two years, local Taliban forces in Ghor province collected funds from residents, claiming it was for constructing the Ghor-Herat highway. Currently, Ghor residents express concern that these funds have been misappropriated by local Taliban officials, and there is no accountability. Residents state that, while poverty and hunger are increasing in the
8am: Sources from the region stated on Monday evening, October 16th, that the Tajik and Pashtun factions within the Taliban engaged in a confrontation within the security command area of the group in Ghor province. According to the sources, tensions between the Tajik and Pashtun factions escalated from verbal exchanges at the entrance gate of
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 16, 2023 Local officials in the central Afghan province where the Taliban detained 18 staffers for a long-serving humanitarian NGO earlier this month suggest the group was suspected of spreading Christianity, RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi has learned. Taliban intelligence and other officials in Kabul have remained silent over the detentions. The International
8am: In a recent incident, Taliban fighters carried out a violent attack in Ghor Province, brutally assaulting several residents and setting their motorcycles ablaze, as reported by local sources. One local resident, who wished to remain anonymous, revealed that the Taliban fighters had been personally gathering yam plants from the mountains and profiting from their
8am: In a distressing incident that sheds light on the growing assertiveness of the Taliban in various regions, reports from Ghor province indicate that Taliban fighters compelled a man to divorce his wife under duress, employing the threat of arms. These developments unfold against a backdrop of increasing reports where Taliban commanders and fighters have
8am: According to the sources, on the night of Wednesday, June 21, two armed individuals affiliated with the Taliban were detained by the local residents in the Qatas area of Firozkoh city while attempting to sexually assault two girls. The sources state that these two Taliban members are residents of the Ghelmin area in Firozkoh
dpa: A former judge has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghor, local media reported on May 7. Two men riding a motorbike targeted Mohammad Nazir Manawi in the provincial capital, Firozkoh, as he was returning home from the local mosque, local broadcaster Salam Watandar reported. The men managed to
8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh on Saturday, April 29, that the son of a Taliban commander and another fighter in his group shot and killed a young girl on Thursday night, April 27, in the Sad-Seyah area of Firozkuh, the center of Ghor province, after they failed to rape her. It is worth mentioning that