Amu: The Taliban’s defense minister, Yaqoob Mujahid, has travelled to border areas in northeastern Badakhshan province, his ministry said, as tensions persist between the Taliban leadership and an influential local commander in the province’s remote Darwaz region. The ministry did not say whether his visit was connected to the reported tensions involving Juma Khan Fateh, an influential Taliban commander in the Darwaz districts. Click here to read more (external link).
