LA Times: It was on the day that Abdullah gave orders to blow up a health facility under construction that he started questioning himself. A Taliban commander for 15 years, he had killed many in his native Afghanistan, but today, the 38-year-old lives in hiding with his wife and five children, working part time as a
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 17, 2019 ISLAMABAD – An International relief agency says the Taliban has forced them to close dozens of clinics in an embattled central – eastern region of Afghanistan, depriving hundreds of thousands of people, particularly women and children, of receiving medical treatment and health services. The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan
Tolo News: New figures by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) indicate that 596 civilians were killed and 1,892 others were wounded in clashes between government forces and the Taliban and other attacks by militants in Afghanistan since the beginning of the current solar year which coincides with March 21, 2019. The CEO of the AIHRC,
Press TV July 13, 2019 Members of the Taliban militant group have bomb attacked a hotel in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Badghis, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly a dozen more, officials say. According to Interior Ministry’s spokesman Nusrat Rahimi, three Taliban militants assaulted a commercial building housing a hotel in Chawk-e-Pesta neighborhood
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 7, 2019 The Taliban set off a car bomb in central Afghanistan killing 12 people and wounding 179 others just as representatives of the militant group were taking part in a two-day conference in Qatar aimed at bringing peace to the troubled central Asian nation. The attack in Ghazni,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 11, 2019 KABUL — Afghan special forces have rescued 44 people from a Taliban-run prison in the northern province of Baghlan, local officials say. Baghlan district Governor Khanzad Mazlomiyar said on June 11 that civilians and members of the security forces were among those freed during the operation, which
By Frud Bezhan Qadir Ghafori Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 1, 2019 FEROZ KOH, Afghanistan — Centuries of neglect and frequent floods are threatening the Minaret of Jam, one of Afghanistan’s archaeological treasures. Last week, the 800-year-old structure in the remote, western province of Ghor was left on the verge of collapse after a flood
1TV: There was no logical reason for Taliban’s refusal to accept ceasefire, Ata Mohammad Noor, executive chief of Jamiat-i-Islami political party, said after Afghan politicians’ talks with Taliban in Moscow. Afghan politicians and Taliban discussed ceasefire, civilian protection, prisoners, foreign troop exit, foreign interference, establishing Islamic system, maintaining territorial integrity and national unity, and women’s rights
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 26, 2019 Afghan captives held by the Taliban have been subjected to “ill-treatment and actions that may amount to torture,” according to the United Nations’ Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). In a statement on May 26, UNAMA said it had interviewed 13 detainees from a group of 53 rescued last
By Freshta Jalalzai & Ron Synovitz May 25, 2019 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Salema Akhundzada was speaking with her mother on the night of May 3 about making a dress as an end-of-Ramadan gift for her 6-month-old niece when a bomb exploded outside their mud-brick home in the eastern part of Ghazni Province. Afghan government