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Report of an unknown illness with gastrointestinal symptoms spreading in western Kabul
Report of an unknown illness with gastrointestinal symptoms in western Kabul.Local sources in Dasht-e Barchi, western Kabul, have reported the spread of an unknown illness with gas…
Mujahid: Recent unrest and violations in Badakhshan have been contained.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, says that recent security incidents and unrest in Badakhshan have been brought under control and that Taliban security forces have t…
Taliban spokesperson reveals his real identity after 25 years.
Taliban spokesperson’s real identity revealed after 25 years.Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesperson, has revealed for the first time that “Zabihullah Mujahid” is not…
Charred body of 26-year-old man body found in Jaghori.
Sources in Jaghoori district of Ghazni province say that a 26-year-old man has been mysteriously killed, and his charred body was found in the mountains.A source told the media tod…
Taliban official: I destroyed the Bamiyan Buddha statues with my own hands.
Abdullah Sarhadi, the Taliban’s former governor and military commander in Bamiyan, has told the BBC that he personally destroyed the giant Bamiyan Buddha statues in 2001.Sarhadi, w…
The Taliban prevented residents of Panjshir from attending Hasib Panjshiri’s funeral.
Restrictions Imposed on Public Attendance at Hasib Panjshiri’s Funeral in Panjshir.A relative of Hasib Panjshiri, a commander of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front who was kil…
Eyewitnesses: Taliban morality enforcers detain several women and girls in Herat.
Three eyewitnesses say that Taliban officials from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice detained and took away several women and girls in three separat…
The Taliban hand over the body of Hasib Panjshiri to his family after three days.
The Taliban, after a three-day delay, handed over the body of Hasib Panjshiri, a commander of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front (NRF), to his relatives in Kabul. Sources said…
Afghanistan freedom front: Mullah Dawood Afzal killed in an ambush in Nangarhar.
The Afghanistan freedom front has announced that Mullah Dawood Afzal, a local Taliban commander in Behsud district of Nangarhar province, was killed in a targeted attack carried ou…
Four members of a family rescued after going missing in the deserts of Helmand.
The Taliban’s head of Information and Culture in Helmand says four members of a family including two children, a woman, and a man have been found and rescued with the help of the T…