Tolo News: Mohammad Ismail Khan, a former mujahideen leader and a senior member of Jamiat-e-Islami party, has mobilized hundreds of his loyalists in Herat province in the west of Afghanistan to fight the Taliban as the group continues to capture large swaths of territories across the country. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Afghanistan May 30, 2021 Six members of the Afghan security forces have been killed by a roadside bomb near the site of a railway that is being built to link eastern Iran with Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. Herat’s provincial governor, Wahid Qatali, said those who were killed had been guarding the site
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 25, 2021 Afghan officials say local commandos have released 41 people from a Taliban prison in the country’s western province of Herat. Jilani Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor, told RFE/RL on May 25 that 19 members of the Afghan security forces were among those freed during the overnight operation in
Ariana: A prayer ceremony for Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, the deputy head of the Taliban splinter group in the western part of the country, was held on Monday at Herat’s Grand Mosque. “If someone is who fights against the government is being killed, we let their families or relatives to burry,” Herat governor Abdul Wahid
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 15, 2021 Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of a breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan, has died in a Kabul hospital of wounds sustained in a shooting earlier this week by unknown gunmen in Herat Province. Niazi’s death early in the morning of May 15 was confirmed by a family member and
Ariana: Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of the Taliban splinter group in the western part of the country, was badly injured in a skirmish in Herat province, sources said. Provincial officials told Ariana News that Niazi was wounded in a skirmish with Taliban militants in the Guzara district of the province. Click here to
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 3, 2021 At least 15 Afghan government soldiers have been killed in Taliban attacks in two provinces as violence continues to rise while negotiations between the two sides aimed at ending a 20-year conflict stall. Taj Mohammad Jahid, the governor of the western province of Farah, said on May 3 that
Ariana News: A powerful explosion at a suspected Taliban ammunition depot in Herat has killed 20 insurgents, local officials confirmed. Officials said the incident took place Sunday in the village of Marabad in the Pashtun Zarghun district. Herat Governor Wahid Qatali confirmed the incident and said the explosion happened while the Taliban were building suicide
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
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 9, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Friday that Taliban insurgents killed at least nine security force members and captured more than 13 others in an attack in western Herat province, next to the border with Iran. Provincial Governor Sayed Wahid Qatali told VOA that late Thursday insurgents targeted