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Former Panjshir provincial council head released after 2 years and 5 months in prison.
Sources have confirmed that Abdul Karim Abbasi, the former head of the Panjshir Provincial Council, has been released from Taliban custody after serving two years and five months i…
Human rights watch: Afghanistan faces one of the world’s most severe human rights crises after five years of Taliban rule.
As the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power approaches, Human Rights Watch has stated that Afghanistan is facing one of the world’s most severe human rights and human…
Traffic accident in Baghlan: 3 killed, 5 injured.
Following a traffic accident in Pul-e Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province, three people including a woman and a child were killed and five others injured. The incident occurred…
Mujahid: Ongoing Kabul–Islamabad tensions benefit neither side.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says the ongoing tensions between Kabul and Islamabad are in the interest of neither side, adding that efforts are underway to find a lastin…
Sources: Taliban give residents of Omid-e Sabz township deadline to evacuate homes.
Sources have told media outlets that the Taliban’s Ministry of Justice has given residents of the Omid-e Sabz township in western Kabul until Thursday, August 6, to vacate their ho…
United Front: We have killed Nigar’s killer in Ghor.
The United Front, led by General Sami Sadat, has claimed responsibility for killing one of the alleged perpetrators of the murder of Nigar, a former Afghan National Police officer,…
Continued detentions of women in Herat; Five women arrested from shopping centers and hospital.
Local sources in Herat say that Taliban officials from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice have arrested at least five women over the past two days, i…
The bodies of 14 people who died in the deserts of Nimroz have been transferred to Badghis province.
The Taliban’s 215th Azm Corps says that the bodies of 14 individuals, who were found in the deserts of Charbarak District in Nimroz Province, have been transferred from Herat to Ba…
Four killed and eight injured in protests in Yiftal district of Badakhshan.
The death toll from the shooting of protesters in Yiftal-e Payin District of Badakhshan Province has risen to four. Eight others, including a woman, have also been injured in the i…
Girls deprived of education in Bamyan turn to arts and skills training.
A number of girls in Bamyan Province who have been deprived of continuing their education say that since schools were closed to girls, they have turned to activities such as sewing…