Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership has been silent on the reign of terror unleashed by their foot soldiers on the people across the country even as recent videos of extrajudicial killings in public prove that the uncontrolled Talibs from a rural and tribal Pashtun background are targeting people on mere suspicion or for no reason at all. In one such video, a terror suspect was killed with a rocket launcher. In the latest instance of unchecked brutality,…
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At least 16 people including seven children and three women were killed in clashes that erupted between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and a group of armed men in the western province of Herat, sources claimed on Monday. The sources said that the house belonged Daesh. Three members of the Islamic Emirate were also killed, the sources added. However, Mawllavi Naeemulhaq Haqqani, provincial director of information and culture, said that a number of kidnappers…
KABUL: A freelance reporter for the eastern region, Sadaqat Ghorzang, was beaten by border forces near Torkham gate on Sunday while making a report about the situation at the crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ghorzang said although he had coordinated with Torkham crossing officials, the border forces beat him up and threw his camera and other equipment into the river and also broke his mobile phone. “After having a talk with the Torkham crossing commissioner,…
A TOLOnews freelance reporter for the eastern region, Sadaqat Ghorzang, was beaten by border forces near Torkham gate on Sunday while making a report about the situation at the crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ghorzang said although he had coordinated with Torkham crossing officials, the border forces beat him up and threw his camera and other equipment into the river and also broke his mobile phone. “After having a talk with the Torkham crossing commissioner,…
MOSCOW: Taliban have welcomed remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possibility to exclude the group from the terror list.Putin, speaking at a meeting of the International Valdai Club, said the removal of the Taliban movement from the list of terrorist organisations is possible. However, he also emphasised that this must happen at the level of the United Nations, Russian News Agency TASS reported. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesperson of the Afghan Foreign Ministry…
HERAT: Taliban forces fought a three-hour gun battle with a group of alleged kidnappers of the militant Islamic State group on Sunday, killing three of them, officials said. The clash erupted in the western Afghan city of Herat when the new Taliban government’s fighters cornered the gang in a high-rise building, Herat Police Command said in a statement. Local residents said they heard light and heavier weapons used in the fighting. Police said three IS…
KABUL: A roadside bombing targeting a Taliban vehicle in eastern Afghanistan killed at least two civilians on Saturday, including a child, Taliban and health officials said. Four others were wounded. Two bombs detonated as a Taliban vehicle was passing by, killing one child, district police chief Ismatullah Mubariz said, adding that no Taliban fighters were harmed. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the militant Islamic State group is active in eastern Nangarhar…
Afghanistan’s acting minister of defense Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid said that the national army of Afghanistan will be delivering the message of peace to the people in Afghanistan and the world. Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid in his recent voice message said that they are making sure that Afghanistan’s soil will not be used against any other country in the region and world. Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid in his 30s, son of the Taliban’s founder Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid…
KABUL — As the Islamic State-Khorasan is ramping up attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan is using a network of informal channels to feed intelligence and technical support to the Taliban to combat the threat, according to two Taliban leaders. Pakistan is passing the group raw information as well as helping it monitor phone and Internet communication to identify Islamic State members and operational hubs, according to a senior Taliban leader who, along with a Taliban commander…
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his support Thursday for a key demand of the Taliban, urging Western countries to unfreeze Afghanistan’s financial assets. Speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Putin said Western countries bear “the main responsibility” for what is happening in Afghanistan. “The main responsibility for what is happening there is being borne by those countries that have been fighting there for 20 years. And the first thing…
Thousands of people have been forced from their homes and land by Taliban officials in the north and south of Afghanistan, in what amounted to collective punishment, illegal under international law, Human Rights Watch has warned. Many of the evictions targeted members of the Shia Hazara community, while others were of people connected to the former Afghan government. Land and homes seized this way have often been redistributed to Taliban supporters, HRW said. Forced evictions…