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At least 23 killed as fighters storm police station in northwest Pakistan
1 year, 1 month ago

At least 23 killed as fighters storm police station in northwest Pakistan

Al Jazeera  

Explosives-packed vehicle is rammed into station used by army as a base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as fighters open fire. Fighters have stormed a military post in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 23 people in a gun and suicide bomb attack, according to the Pakistani military. The incident took place on Tuesday in the town of Daraban, about 60km from Dera …

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Taliban fighters point guns at Afghan women, tell them to go home after university ban
2 years ago

Taliban fighters point guns at Afghan women, tell them to go home after university ban

India Today  

Taliban fighters are pointing guns at young Afghan women and telling them to go home after they enforced a country-wide university ban this week. pic.twitter.com/TawZk8iFE6 — Shabnam Nasimi December 22, 2022 Now, Taliban fighters are taking to the streets and pointing guns at young women and forcing them to walk back home from universities, The Independent reported. “A female student …

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Taliban declare victory from Kabul airport tarmac after US withdrawal
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban declare victory from Kabul airport tarmac after US withdrawal

CNN  

CNN — Taliban leaders declared victory over the United States from the tarmac of Kabul airport on Tuesday, hours after the withdrawal of the last American troops left Afghanistan in the grip of the militant group. Taliban fighters were But Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told CNN Tuesday he wasn’t “overly concerned about these images” of Taliban fighters examining the …

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Anti-Taliban fighters dig in to defend Panjshir Valley
3 years, 4 months ago

Anti-Taliban fighters dig in to defend Panjshir Valley

Al Jazeera  

The NRF is the most prominent Afghan opposition group to emerge since the Taliban captured Kabul nine days ago. They are members of the National Resistance Front – the most prominent Afghan opposition group to emerge since the Taliban captured Kabul nine days ago. “If Taliban warlords launch an assault, they will of course face staunch resistance from us,” Ahmad …

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Taliban beat Afghans for carrying the national flag in crackdown
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban beat Afghans for carrying the national flag in crackdown

Daily Mail  

The Taliban have been at pains to present a reformed image since marching into Kabul this weekend after US president Joe Biden's abandonment of Afghanistan. It comes after human rights group Amnesty International revealed that Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of the country's Ghazni province last month, with eyewitnesses giving harrowing accounts of the killings. …

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I woke up to the Taliban walking in my city
3 years, 4 months ago

I woke up to the Taliban walking in my city

Al Jazeera  

I first heard the news from my sister. People called it a “transition of power”, saying that President Ashraf Ghani and some of his close associates left Kabul even though he did not declare his resignation formally. NEVER.” Late at night, the Taliban’s political spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid gave a short interview to Afghan media, saying that the Taliban would not …

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Trump in 2020 praised the Taliban as a future counterterrorism partner: ‘They will be killing some very bad people’
3 years, 4 months ago

Trump in 2020 praised the Taliban as a future counterterrorism partner: ‘They will be killing some very bad people’

Raw Story  

In February of 2020 then-President Donald Trump stood at the podium of the White House press briefing room, announced the U.S. would be withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan, and praised the Taliban – whom he infamously also had invited months earlier to meet with him on Sept. 11 at Camp David – as a future counterterrorism partner. On Tuesday Mediaite …

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Timeline: Afghanistan provincial capitals captured by Taliban
3 years, 5 months ago

Timeline: Afghanistan provincial capitals captured by Taliban

Al Jazeera  

The provincial capitals that have fallen to or are being attacked by the armed group as it advances across the nation. Herat, August 12: The capital of the western province of Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city, falls to the Taliban after two weeks of fighting. Feruz Koh, August 13: Taliban fighters take control of Chaghcharan in Afghanistan’s western Ghor province with …

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India condemns removal of Sikh flag from gurdwara in Afghanistan
3 years, 5 months ago

India condemns removal of Sikh flag from gurdwara in Afghanistan

The Hindu  

India on Friday condemned the act of desecration of a historic Sikh place of worship in Paktia province in Afghanistan by Taliban fighters. The condemnation came after the Taliban fighters dislodged the Sikh religious flag of Thala Shri Guru Nanak Sahib Gurudwara of Chamkani in Paktia. "We condemn this act and reiterate India's firm belief that Afghanistan's future must be …

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Pakistani fighters, Taliban instructed to target India-built assets in Afghanistan
3 years, 5 months ago

Pakistani fighters, Taliban instructed to target India-built assets in Afghanistan

India TV News  

With the Taliban being joined by Pakistanis in Afghanistan in large numbers, their fighters have been instructed by the Inter-Services Intelligence to target the Indian-built assets in the war-torn country, over the last many years. The Indian government has invested over USD 3 billion in the Afghanistan reconstruction effort since the last two decades and the 218-km road between Delaram …

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Taliban attacks second Afghan city as talks with US wrap up
5 years, 4 months ago

Taliban attacks second Afghan city as talks with US wrap up

Al Jazeera  

Battles ongoing in Baghlan province’s Puli Khumri even as US envoy says Washington and group are ‘at threshold’ of deal. A second attack by the Taliban in as many days has left several civilians and security forces dead, officials said, as the violence overshadowed increasing expectations over a peace deal between the group and the United States aimed at ending …

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Taliban suicide attack on Afghan forces amid Kunduz siege: Report
5 years, 4 months ago

Taliban suicide attack on Afghan forces amid Kunduz siege: Report

Al Jazeera  

Reuters says Taliban bomber strikes a main square in the Afghan city, where fighting is going on since Saturday morning. A Taliban suicide bomber has struck a main square in northern Afghanistan’s city of Kunduz where Afghan forces had gathered to defend the city from falling to the group, killing at least 10 soldiers and civilians, officials told Reuters news …

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15 Taliban terrorists killed in military airstrike in Afghanistan
5 years, 5 months ago

15 Taliban terrorists killed in military airstrike in Afghanistan

India TV News  

At least 15 militants were killed and 10 others wounded after a military aircraft targeted a gathering of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Takhar province on Saturday, officials said. The air raid was conducted at 2 a.m. when a group of Taliban militants were assembled in Eshkamish district to attack security checkpoints, district Governor Abdul Qayum Qani was cited as saying …

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