Kabul: Thousands witnessed the grizzly execution of two convicted men by the Taliban at a football stadium in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday as the relatives of victims fired the gunshot. The three lower courts and the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, had ordered the executions in retribution for their purported crimes, according to the court statement. Criticism on public executions …
After the Taliban captured a strategic provincial capital near Kabul and broke through defensive lines in Afghanistan’s third-largest city on Thursday, it took over Herat Police headquarters in Western Afghanistan. #BREAKING Taliban take over Herat police HQ in western Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/uADL8dEctS — AFP News Agency August 12, 2021 Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city and the capital of a province with the …
A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 26 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in recent months. The Ghazni attack comes just days after two bombs killed 14 people in the historic city of Bamiyan, ending years of calm in the isolated town famous for its ancient Buddhist …