8am: The Organization for Health Promotion and Management (OHPM) has reconstructed 33 health centers in Helmand province that were destroyed by the Taliban. During the course of the last 20 years, the Taliban damaged and destroyed all public and private infrastructures. Health, education, and transportation infrastructure were the most valuable and primary targets of the
8am: Taliban fighters force the residents of Helmand province to provide them with food supply under the pretext of Tithes and Zakat. The Taliban is the first self-proclaimed and weapon oriented government who consider the people being responsible to feed their fighters, using the logic of baseless religious decrees. Click here to read more (external
8am: Local sources in Helmand province have confirmed that as a result of U.S. airstrikes on a weapons depot in Helmand province, 30 Taliban militants are killed. According to sources, the U.S. carried out a drone attack on the Taliban’s weapons depot last week at Shorabak Airport. Click here to read more (external link). Related
Modern Diplomacy: According to intelligence reports, Taliban’s weapons depot at Boston Billion Pound Base or Shurab Airport in Helmand province was destroyed in an airstrike. A heavy explosion at a weapons depot at the Shurab military base took place on Wednesday last week, a source close to the Taliban said the blast was not caused
8am: Taliban militants have brutally tortured and murdered a former government police officer named Shir Mohammad in Helmand province. Local sources have confirmed that the victim had served in eight-security district of Lashkar Gah city during the former government. Click here to read more (external link). Related The Taliban Justify the Persecution of Former Security
8am: It is has been for six months that local Taliban authorities in Helmand province have reportedly detained Sayed Gul, known as Khaksar Alizai, a local commander in the Kajaki district of the province. Though the Taliban have announced a general amnesty, the former soldiers, government officials, and those who have worked with foreign alliances
Tolo News: The cultivation of poppy for opium production has surged in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar this year compared to previous years, farmers said. “There is nothing else to cultivate. We were growing wheat before. This year—we want to cultivate poppy. Previously they were asking for bribes every day but we don’t
8am: A soldier affiliated with the now-former security directorate in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province claims that local government forces have severely tortured him. He was reportedly abducted and severely tortured by Taliban government forces in Lashkar Gah on Wednesday night. Click here to read more (external link).
AFP: Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, families who fled the fighting in one southern village returned home to find something strange: the cricket ground had been circled in rocks painted red and white.’ Click here to read more (external link).
France24: Provincial cities in the north have fallen like dominoes this week – in some cases after government forces retreated or surrendered without a fight – but in Lashkar Gah, a Taliban heartland, the army appears to be providing stiffer resistance. Leading them is Sami Sadat, 36, the highest-ranking army officer in southern Afghanistan, in