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Resistance front claims to have killed one Taliban fighter and wounded three others in herat.
The Resistance Front, an anti-Taliban opposition group, claims to have launched an attack on a security outpost known as the "Antenna Post" in the Farsi district of Herat…
A Taliban intelligence director and a soldier killed in an armed attack in Sar-e Pol.
Sources in Sar-e Pol city report that a local Taliban intelligence director and a soldier from the 209th Corps were killed in an armed attack.According to the sources, the attack t…
The Taliban have initiated a recruitment drive for fighters in districts near the Durand line in Kunar.
As tensions and clashes between the Taliban and Pakistan intensify along the Durand Line, the Taliban have initiated a recruitment drive for their military in the districts of Kuna…
Nadeem: Turkey should cooperate with Afghan universities and teaching hospitals.
Taliban Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadeem has asked Turkey’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Sadin Elidiz, to send Turkish lecturers to teach at Afghan universities and…
U.S. Citizen arrested in Mazar-i-Sharif on allegations of promoting Christianity.
News sources have reported the arrest of Todd Adam Baker, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan’s Balkh province. According to the r…
Majid Qar: The Taliban do not go to the front lines against Pakistan; they do so against Afghans instead.
Afghan writer and social activist Majid Qar has criticized the Taliban’s military strategies, saying that during disputes with Pakistan, senior Taliban military officials did not g…
UNAMA: Restrictions on unaccompanied women in healthcare centers and markets continue.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced that Taliban inspectors from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice are mo…
Freedom Front: We killed five Taliban fighters in Badakhshan’s Zebak district.
The anti-Taliban Freedom Front has claimed that its forces repelled Taliban attacks in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province and, in subsequent counteroffensive operations, kil…
UN: Taliban publicly flogged 127 people in three months.
The United Nations has reported in its latest assessment that the Taliban carried out corporal punishment against dozens of citizens across Afghanistan between April 1 and June 30…
Taliban says one suspect in attack on Badakhshan information and culture chief arrested.
The Taliban’s police command in Badakhshan province has confirmed the killing of Zabihullah Amiri, the group’s Director of Information and Culture in the province. According to a s…