Khaama Press: Taliban leaders who have pledged allegiance Mullah Mohammad Rasool, have recently abandoned Pakistan due to the inappropriate behavior by the country. The eleven Taliban commanders who have pledged allegiance to Mullah Rasool were previously serving with the group’s newly appointed supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A dissident Afghan Taliban group that supports Mullah Mohammad Rasoul has released a new video reportedly recorded in Farah province in which the loyalists call Mullah Akhter Mansour, successor to the group’s longtime former leader Mullah Omar, an ISI puppet. In the video, the militants declare a nationwide military campaign against Mullah Akhter Mansour faction.
AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:
Press TV / January 30, 2016 Washington has been a “willing participant” in regional decisions that led to a resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the continued US military presence is impeding peace in the country, says an international lawyer and political analyst. “Whatever other nations may think of the Taliban ethos, the only way forward
Tolo News: A new video reportedly recorded in Faryab province shows that a Taliban local commander Sayed Hashim Hashemi accuses Taliban’s new leader Mullah Akhter Mansour of having plotted the murder of the group’s longtime leader Mullah Omar. In the video, he warns Mullah Mansour of a severe response. Click here to read more (external link).
AOPNEWS | January 14, 2016 The Taliban faction loyal to Mullah Mansur posted on their website yesterday a report with a photo of what appears to be members of Afghanistan’s military who have allegedly surrendered themselves to the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province. Per the Taliban report, the ‘personnel’ includes 13 soldiers, 13 policemen, six
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 8, 2016 The Taliban is waging an unusually aggressive campaign of violence in Afghanistan this winter, unleashing deadly bombings in the capital, threatening to overrun a strategic southern province, and attacking a foreign consulate. Afghanistan’s mountainous terrain and heavy snowfall have traditionally prompted a winter lull in
AOPNEWS | January 7, 2016 Earlier this week, the Taliban faction loyal to Mullah Mansur posted on its website that DAESH (aka ISIS) is a part of an anti-Islamic western conspiracy against them, and they vowed to purge them from eastern Nangarhar province, as they allegedly had done in other parts of the country. More
Khaama Press: Two senior Taliban have told Reuters news agency that representatives of a splinter group headed by Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund calling itself the ulema, which rejects Mansour’s authority, travelled to an undisclosed location to meet the exiled insurgency leadership headed by Mansour on Friday. Click here to read more (external link). Related Khyber News:
Press TV December 8, 2015 Afghan security officials say at least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured during fierce infighting between rival members of the Taliban militant group in the country’s western province of Herat. Major General Taj Mohammad Jahed, commander of the 207th Corps of the Afghan National Army, said the