In Zaranj, the capital of Afghanistan’s southwestern Nimroz Province, Iran’s currency is now being used for most transactions. One shopkeeper says more than 90 percent of his customers pay him with Iranian currency. Businessmen say it is because banks are closed or limiting withdrawals and there is a shortage of afghanis, the country’s currency.
Press TV August 7, 2021 Numerous videos have emerged showing American-made military vehicles and equipment used by the Taliban in the newly-captured southwestern Afghan province of Nimroz as the militant group ramps up offensives to seize further territory across the conflict-ridden country. Video footage shared on Twitter and other social media networks on Friday displayed
RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 6, 2021 Local officials in western Afghanistan say Taliban fighters have entered the provincial hub of Zaranj and its Kabul-backed governor and other senior officials have fled, leaving the militant group poised to capture its first major population center since an all-out offensive began four months ago. A provincial administration official
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 10, 2021 ISLAMABAD – A roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, early Sunday and a countermilitancy airstrike elsewhere in the war-ravaged country killed at least 15 people, including a government spokesman. Officials said a “magnetic mine” targeted a vehicle that was transporting Zia Wadan, spokesman for the National Public
By Ayaz Gul VOA News October 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban has killed at least 23 Afghan soldiers in fresh attacks, as a stalemate persists in U.S.-brokered peace talks under way in Qatar. Officials said Friday insurgents overnight staged a major assault on an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Khashrod district in southwestern
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 6, 2020 Taliban militants and Afghan civilians have been killed in attacks and clashes across Afghanistan amid peace efforts aimed at ending the nearly 19-year war. Defense Ministry spokesman Fawad Aman said at least 16 Taliban militants were killed in two separate clashes with government forces in the eastern province
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 9, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The United Nations said Wednesday recent U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug-processing facilities in Afghanistan that killed more than 30 civilians, including children, were “not lawful.” The casualties occurred last May in western Farah and adjoining Nimroz provinces where the U.S. bombed more than 60 sites, identifying
Khalil Noorzai Habibzada Mohammad VOA News January 7, 2018 Airstrikes on narcotics processing labs may be forcing the Taliban to seek new ways to finance their insurgency in southern Afghanistan. Taliban officials say they have established a new customs house in the Delaram district of southern Nimruz province in the southwestern part of Afghanistan. The
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 19, 2017 A district chief has been shot and killed in Afghanistan’s western province of Nimroz by gunmen riding on a motorcycle, an Afghan official says. Ahmad Arab, a spokesman for the provincial governor, says Aqa Mohammad Fazeli was on his way to work when he came under attack by
AOPNEWS | February 10, 2016 Baghlan: Local officials announced today that over 130 Taliban militants have been killed and 95 have been wounded as a result of Afghan military operations against them through out the province. The provincial governor, Abdul Sattar Bariz, said that so far 2 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 6 have