Press TV August 22, 2021 Former Afghan government forces forming a resistance movement in Panjshir fortified valley northeast of Kabul are preparing for “long-term conflict” after the takeover of the war-ravaged Asian country by the militant group, an official says. Ali Maisam Nazary, an official from Ahmad Massoud’s National Resistance Front said in an interview
Ahmad Massoud via The Washington Post: I write from the Panjshir Valley today, ready to follow in my father’s footsteps, with mujahideen fighters who are prepared to once again take on the Taliban. We have stores of ammunition and arms that we have patiently collected since my father’s time, because we knew this day might
August 17, 2021 MOSCOW, August 17 – RIA Novosti. Vice President Amrullah Saleh’s forces have recaptured the Taliban area in the Charikar area in Parwan province north of Kabul, a military source in the Afghan capital told RIA Novosti. “Fighting is now going on in the Panjshir area,” the source said. Ten thousand Afghan army
By Frud Bezhan RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 12, 2021 PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — With its soaring cliffs and steep gorges, this famed region has never been conquered by invading forces during more than 40 years of war. It was a bastion of resistance to occupying Soviet troops in the 1980s and later the Taliban, until
NYT: In Panjshir, one of the last holdout regions against the Soviets and the Taliban, some would prefer to go their own way rather than support a government negotiating peace with the insurgency. Deputy head of the upper house of Parliament who represents Panjshir: “…don’t trust the government anymore.” Click here to read more (external
By Ayaz Gul VOA News September 10, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The United States is pressing authorities in Afghanistan to bring to justice an influential former head of the South Asian country’s soccer federation who is on the run from criminal charges of sexually assaulting multiple female players. Washington’s acting U.S. Ambassador to Kabul Ross Willson
1TV: Around 60 Taliban fighters on Tuesday stormed a region in Afghanistan’s Panjshir, a normally peaceful province in the north of the capital, local officials said. According to the official, the area was surrounded by security forces who were trying to capture the militants. The attack coincides death anniversary of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the anti-Soviet
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 26, 2020 Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Afghanistan have killed at least 100 people and injured more than 300 others in Parwan Province just north of Kabul, Afghan officials said August 26. Ghulam Bahauddin Jailani, Afghanistan’s state minister for natural-disaster management, told RFE/RL that the floods have also
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 12, 2018 A landslide has killed at least 10 people and destroyed nearly 300 homes in northeast Afghanistan. Two helicopters with a rescue team and emergency aid flew to the province of Panjshir where the disaster struck late on July 11. Omar Mohammadi, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management
Fox News: It has been dubbed Afghanistan’s Green Zone: A pocket of paradise amid the bloody, conflict-ravaged country — both a hidden gem and full of gems. Specifically, they are world-class emeralds seemingly just waiting to be mined. Located some 80 miles along a snaking road northeast of Kabul via Bagram, the Panjshir Valley boasts stark