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Taliban respond to Karzai: “You have no right to comment on Afghanistan.”
Ziaullah Hashimi, spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education, has sharply criticized former Afghan President Hamid Karzai over his recent remarks on girls’ educati…
Nabil: A confidential telephone line existed for direct communication with the ISI.
Former head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, has claimed that during the early years of Ashraf Ghani’s presidency, a separate and confide…
The Taliban have removed Afghanistan’s national flag from the grave of Shapoor Zadran.
Reports indicate that in Kabul, a small Afghan national flag placed beside the grave of former Afghanistan national cricket player Shapoor Zadran by an Afghan woman has been remove…
A new shipment of food aid has arrived in Afghanistan to support families in need.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that, after a prolonged interruption, more than 1,600 tonnes of food supplies have entered Afghanistan. The organization stated that th…
Kandahar Governor: Beardless individuals and young recruits should be searched; “corruption” exists among them.
Sources have reported that Mullah Mohammad Shirn Akhund, the Taliban-appointed governor of Kandahar, has instructed officials responsible for security and traffic police forces in…
The Taliban report the seizure of thousands of Intoxicating Tablets in Nangarhar.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Interior announced that its security forces in Ghani Khil district of Nangarhar province have seized 44,000 intoxicating tablets, 28 kilograms of hashish,…
Vice and virtue minister: Taliban will not backtrack on Sharia law enforcement.
Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban’s Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, has said that the group will not retreat from enforcing Islamic law despite what he descri…
The Taliban have begun the construction of a 50-bed hospital in Khost province.
The Taliban-run Ministry of Public Health has officially launched the construction of a 50-bed GH hospital in Tani district of Khost province at an estimated cost of 50 million Afg…
Taliban: 500-Kilogram Bomb safely neutralized in Kandahar.
The mine clearance organization HALO Trust has discovered and safely neutralized a 500-kilogram bomb left over from past conflicts in the Wiyand village of Shah Wali Kot district,…
Juma Khan Fateh: Lack of familiarity with the Pashto language was the reason behind my resignation as deputy governor of Zabul.
Juma Khan Fateh, a Taliban commander who was transferred to Kabul following mediation by Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat, told the BBC that the reason for his resignation from the position…