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Afghanistan’s Green Trend, led by Amrullah Saleh, reports an attack on a Taliban checkpoint in Takhar.
The Afghanistan Green Trend, led by Amrullah Saleh, has claimed that forces affiliated with the movement attacked a Taliban checkpoint at the entrance to Chal district in Takhar pr…
Five years after the fall: Ferozuddin Feroz on the path back to his medical profession.
Ferozuddin Feroz, Afghanistan’s former Minister of Public Health, is experiencing a very different life in the United Kingdom five years after the fall of the previous Afghan gover…
Taliban recruit young men from Badakhshan’s border districts to join their army.
The Taliban’s chief of army Staff, Fasiuddin Fitrat, says the group’s Ministry of Defense has decided to recruit young men from districts of Badakhshan located near the Durand Line…
Taliban intelligence forces shoot dead two people in Badghis provincial capital.
Local sources in Badghis province say that two people were killed in the provincial capital after being shot by Taliban intelligence forces. Taliban officials have also confirmed t…
Spanta: Opposition to progress and social justice persists even after a century.
Former Afghan foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta says that even a century after King Amanullah Khan began efforts to advance the country through development, the rule of law, an…
Taliban detain principal and two teachers of Shama Hedayat school in western Kabul.
Sources in western Kabul say that the Taliban have detained Salim Samim, the principal of the “Shama Hedayat” school, along with two teachers from the school. The school was the si…
At least five women detained in Herat by Taliban morality Police.
Taliban morality police officers in Herat have reportedly detained at least five women for not covering their faces and transferred them to an undisclosed location. Eyewitnesses sa…
Mullah Baradar: The world should pave the way for formal political engagement with the Taliban.
Taliban deputy prime minister for economic affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, says Afghanistan has entered a new phase in safeguarding its independence, security, and national va…
Haqqani to opponents: Do not destroy yourselves or harm your own people.
Taliban interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani says that security cannot be ensured solely through weapons and the activities of security forces. Rather, social justice, public satis…
Taliban defense minister: Do not expect Afghans to accept slavery.
The Taliban government’s Defense Minister, Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, says Afghanistan will not shape its policies according to the political and economic demands of other countries,…