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Afghan women protested against the Taliban in Mashhad.
A number of members of the Afghanistan Women’s Political Participation Network held a protest gathering in the city of Mashhad, expressing their opposition to the recent arrests of…
Freedom Front: Taliban morality inspectors remain targets of the freedom front.
Dawood Naji, the political leader of the Afghanistan Freedom Front, has reacted to the detention of women in Herat by stating that inspectors of the Taliban’s Ministry for the Prop…
Nangarhar: A local Taliban commander has stabbed a young man.
A young man in the city of Jalalabad has alleged that he was attacked with a knife by a local Taliban commander.The young man, identified as Israr Ahmad, says the incident took pla…
Local sources: Taliban have deployed undercover operatives in Herat.
Eyewitnesses in Herat say that, in an effort to prevent protests from taking place, the Taliban have deployed not only military forces but also a number of plainclothes intelligenc…
A Taliban cabinet meeting chaired by Hibatullah Akhundzada was held in Kandahar.
Well-informed sources in Kandahar have told media outlets that a Taliban cabinet meeting chaired by Hibatullah Akhundzada was held in the province on Wednesday. According to these…
The brother of the head of the Taliban’s Technical and Vocational Education Authority in Herat has been killed.
Local sources in Herat Province report that Mohammad Ismail, the brother of Mawlawi Ghulam Haider Shahemat, head of the Taliban’s Technical and Vocational Education Authority, was…
Citizens’ protest in front of the Taliban governor’s office in Herat was halted by gunfire.
Several citizens held a protest gathering on Friday in front of the Taliban governor’s office in Herat. Eyewitnesses say that after the demonstration began, Taliban forces opened f…
Large-scale deployment of Taliban forces in Herat and Kabul following protest calls.
In response to calls for protests against the detention of women, the cities of Herat and Kabul witnessed a significant deployment of Taliban forces and the enforcement of strict s…
A tneenager in Bamyan province was killed by armed assailants while trying to save his sister.
Reports from Yakawlang District of Bamyan Province indicate that a teenage boy, Mohammad Amin, was killed while attempting to prevent the abduction of his young sister.According to…
Richard Bennett: All parties should exercise restraint in the event of protests in Herat.
Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, has said that if planned protests in Herat are held in response to the deten…