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Hamid Karzai: Education for girls and boys is essential to Afghanistan’s strength.
EKarzai: Preserving Afghanistan’s Independence Requires an Educated Young Generation of Both Girls and Boys.Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, says preserving the c…
Clash between residents and Taliban over land in Ghazni leaves one dead.
Sources in Ghazni say that the driver of a municipal bulldozer was killed following a clash between local residents and a Taliban commission tasked with preventing land grabbing.Th…
Reports of Taliban verbal order to halt verification of women’s educational documents.
Reports indicate that, during its monthly meeting for the month of Asad (July–August), the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education verbally instructed universities across Afghanista…
Fitrat: The Taliban’s arms are open to opponents, but any threat to security will be met with a firm response.
Fasihuddin Fitrat, the Taliban’s chief of army staff, has warned opponents of the group that they will face a “decisive, serious, and forceful” response from Taliban forces if they…
United Afghanistan front claims attack on Taliban’s 205th corps headquarters in Kandahar.
The United Afghanistan Front says its forces have attacked a military base belonging to the Taliban’s 205 Al-Badr Corps in Kandahar. The Taliban has neither confirmed nor denied th…
UN: Nearly 600,000 children returning to Afghanistan are deprived of education.
Stephan Dujarric, spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said at a press briefing that nearly 600,000 of the approximately 900,000 children who have returned…
UN: Around 20 terrorist groups are active in Afghanistan.
The official responsible for the United Nations Security Council sanctions monitoring team, Colin Smith, says that 135 members of the Taliban, including members of the Haqqani netw…
Wahid Omar: Ashraf Ghani did not want to leave the presidential palace, but his colleagues forced him out.
Wahid Omar, the former head of strategic and public affairs for Afghanistan’s former President Ashraf Ghani, says Ghani did not want to leave the presidential palace on August 15,…
Sepah-e Mihan front claims responsibility for attack on gold-mining company in Takhar.
The Sepah-e Mihan front said in a statement that it had attacked a foreign gold-mining company in Takhar province, killing one person and injuring several others.In a statement iss…
Abdul Salam Hanafi: Prisoners must be treated in accordance with Islamic Sharia law.
Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s administrative deputy prime minister, visited a prison during his trip to Bamyan province and stressed that prisoners should be treated in accorda…