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Afghanistan: Taliban prohibits Kandahar officials from photographing 'living things'
10 months ago

Afghanistan: Taliban prohibits Kandahar officials from photographing 'living things'

Firstpost  

Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, the main base of the Taliban, issued an order on Sunday forbidding its employees from capturing pictures or videos of “living things” The province's Department of Interior sent a letter to civil and military officials instructing them "not to take pictures of living things during your formal and informal gatherings, as it causes more harm than …

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Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education
1 year, 4 months ago

Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education

The Hindu  

The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief spokesman said in an interview marking the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country. "It will serve for as long as it can and as long as the emir isn’t removed for doing something that goes against …

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The Taliban believe their rule is open-ended and don’t plan to lift the ban on female education
1 year, 4 months ago

The Taliban believe their rule is open-ended and don’t plan to lift the ban on female education

Associated Press  

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief spokesman said in an interview marking the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country. “It will serve for as long as it can and as long as the emir isn’t removed for doing something …

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‘Unprovoked’ firing from Afghan forces kills civilians: Pakistan
2 years ago

‘Unprovoked’ firing from Afghan forces kills civilians: Pakistan

Al Jazeera  

At least six civilians killed and 17 others wounded in ‘unprovoked and indiscriminate’ firing by Afghan forces, the Pakistan army says. At least six civilians have been killed by “unprovoked” firing from Afghan forces near the Chaman border, Pakistan’s military said, in the latest deadly flare-up at the border between the neighbouring countries. The Pakistani army’s media wing said on …

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Taliban pilots crash MD-530 helicopter in Kandahar during training
2 years, 11 months ago

Taliban pilots crash MD-530 helicopter in Kandahar during training

India TV News  

Highlights Taliban confirmed that military helicopter crashed in training flight in Kandahar The crash was due to technical problems and 2 pilots were injured, Tolo News reported One of the pilots is in stable condition, another pilot is in critical condition The Taliban has confirmed that a military helicopter, MD-530 provided with surveillance cameras and machine guns crashed in a …

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'Ineffective & Unreasonable': Hasan Akhund, New Afghanistan PM is Taliban Old Guard
3 years, 3 months ago

'Ineffective & Unreasonable': Hasan Akhund, New Afghanistan PM is Taliban Old Guard

News 18  

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the chief of the Taliban’s powerful decision-making body ‘Rehbari Shura’, has been appointed Afghanistan’s new head of state by the insurgent group’s top leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Chairman of Taliban’s Political Office in Doha, and Mullah Abdus Salam will work as deputies of Mullah Hasan in the new Taliban government. Hebatullah himself …

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Endless warfare lies ahead in Afghanistan despite ISI-brokered deal to appoint new prime minister
3 years, 3 months ago

Endless warfare lies ahead in Afghanistan despite ISI-brokered deal to appoint new prime minister

Firstpost  

Like their predecessors, the Taliban’s commanders may soon discover warfare isn’t just a means to gain power, but an end in itself From the graves of the jihadists across Afghanistan, Abdullah Azzam had hoped, would rise the fragrant scent of martyrdom: Instead, the fetid stench of disillusion suffused the air. Later this week, the Taliban is expected to install Maulvi …

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Taliban Govt in Afghanistan: Mullah Yaqoob and Haqqani Factions Fight for Key Posts
3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban Govt in Afghanistan: Mullah Yaqoob and Haqqani Factions Fight for Key Posts

News 18  

As the United States completed its military retreat from Afghanistan on August 31 after the 20-year-long American deployment in the war-torn country, some of the Taliban’s top leaders in Kabul have initiated talks on setting up a new government in Afghanistan. The reports of differences between Mullah Yaqoob and the Haqqani factions are doing rounds even though the Taliban leadership …

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Taliban hold mock FUNERALS for American forces: Thousands celebrate US soldiers leaving
3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban hold mock FUNERALS for American forces: Thousands celebrate US soldiers leaving

Daily Mail  

The Biden administration is considering sending economic aid to the Taliban, even as the militants hold mock funerals for American troops and NATO allies to celebrate the end of the 20-year US military intervention in Afghanistan. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told ABC's Good Morning America that the US could send economic and developmental aid to Afghanistan if the …

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After US exit, Taliban fly American chopper with body hanging from rope | Video
3 years, 3 months ago

After US exit, Taliban fly American chopper with body hanging from rope | Video

India Today  

A new video has emerged in which a US Black Hawk helicopter can be seen flying over Kandahar in Afghanistan with a body hanging from a rope below. Several journalists have shared the video on Twitter claiming the brutal Taliban have killed a man and hung him from the US military helicopter they took out to patrol the Kandahar province. …

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Taliban takeover pushes Afghanistan into chaos
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban takeover pushes Afghanistan into chaos

The Hindu  

THE LIGHTNING SPEED AND THE EASE WITH which the Taliban forces retook the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15 after 20 years have taken everybody by surprise. When the Taliban took power for the first time in 1996, one of the first things it did was to torture and hang Mohammed Najibullah, the last secular leader of Afghanistan who had …

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My personal account of dealing with two generations of Taliban
3 years, 4 months ago

My personal account of dealing with two generations of Taliban

India Today  

Twenty-five years ago, I was introduced to the Taliban militia as pipeline police. Famous Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum also agreed to work with the Taliban, but the government of Benazir Bhutto was suddenly dismissed in November 1996 and behind-the-scenes Afghan peace talks were over. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a founding member of the Taliban, looks after political affairs; Mullah …

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As US ‘abandons’ Afghans, military veterans feel anger, confusion
3 years, 4 months ago

As US ‘abandons’ Afghans, military veterans feel anger, confusion

Al Jazeera  

Many US veterans are struggling with doubts about what they were fighting for in Afghanistan, why their friends died, whether it was all useless. “Now, we’ve abandoned them,” said Trogus whose efforts to warn her superiors at the Pentagon what would happen when the United States pulled out of Afghanistan were frustrated. “Sitting back as a young Marine on a …

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Taliban say will completely take over Afghanistan in 7 days, set eyes on Kabul as key cities fall
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban say will completely take over Afghanistan in 7 days, set eyes on Kabul as key cities fall

Firstpost  

The Taliban’s statement came close on the heels of the group’s fighters making rapid gains in conflict zones Taliban fighters will complete the takeover of Afghanistan, including the capital city of Kabul, in less than seven days, the insurgent group told CNN-News18 on Friday, buoyed by their spectacular success in gaining control of city after city in a weekslong military …

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Taliban sweep across Afghanistan’s south; take 4 more cities
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban sweep across Afghanistan’s south; take 4 more cities

India TV News  

The Taliban completed their sweep of the country’s south on Friday as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. The latest U.S. military intelligence assessment suggests Kabul could come under insurgent pressure within 30 days and that, if current …

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More Afghan cities fall as Taliban near Kabul
3 years, 4 months ago

More Afghan cities fall as Taliban near Kabul

The Hindu  

The Taliban seized more major cities on August 13 as they raced to take full control of Afghanistan and inched closer to Kabul, with the U.S. and Britain deploying thousands of troops to evacuate their citizens from the capital. The evacuation orders came as the Taliban took control of Kandahar — the nation’s second-biggest city — in the insurgency’s heartland, …

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Canada sending forces to close Afghan embassy
3 years, 4 months ago

Canada sending forces to close Afghan embassy

India TV News  

Canadian special forces will deploy to Afghanistan where staff in Canada’s embassy in Kabul will be evacuated before it closes, a source familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. Britain also said Thursday that it will send around 600 troops to Afghanistan to help U.K. nationals leave the country amid growing concerns about the security situation. The first planeload …

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With Taliban again triumphantly ensconced in Kandahar, time circles back on itself
3 years, 4 months ago

With Taliban again triumphantly ensconced in Kandahar, time circles back on itself

LA Times  

The Taliban’s dramatic recapture early Friday of Kandahar — the group’s birthplace and onetime redoubt of its late spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar — marks a full-circle moment in the long Afghan conflict, a dizzying, dust-colored rewind of history. Kandahar was the lodestar, the center of gravity for the Taliban until December 2001, when U.S. special forces — the tip …

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US envoy in Qatar to press Taliban for end to offensive
3 years, 4 months ago

US envoy in Qatar to press Taliban for end to offensive

Al Jazeera  

Several rounds of meetings scheduled over three days between Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban as the armed group makes advances. The US State Department said Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy, was in Doha, Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office, to “help formulate a joint international response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan”. “They also want to come up …

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Taliban accused of ‘massacring civilians’ in Afghan border town
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban accused of ‘massacring civilians’ in Afghan border town

Al Jazeera  

The US and the UK accuse the Taliban of killing dozens of civilians in possible ‘war crimes’ in Spin Boldak, south Afghanistan. Afghan forces battled to stop a first major city from falling to the Taliban as the United States and the United Kingdom accused the group of “massacring civilians” in a Kandahar town they recently captured near the Pakistan …

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Afghanistan: US general McKenzie vows to continue airstrikes supporting Afghan troops fighting Taliban
3 years, 4 months ago

Afghanistan: US general McKenzie vows to continue airstrikes supporting Afghan troops fighting Taliban

CNN  

CNN — The US will continue airstrikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday. Speaking to reporters Sunday in Kabul, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Central Command, said, “The United States has increased airstrikes in the support of Afghan forces over the last several days, and we are prepared to continue …

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On US airstrikes in aid of Afghan forces, Taliban says violation of signed agreement will have consequences
3 years, 5 months ago

On US airstrikes in aid of Afghan forces, Taliban says violation of signed agreement will have consequences

India Today  

The Taliban has termed the US airstrikes to support Afghan government forces in Kandahar and Helmand provinces as a "violation of the signed agreement that will have consequences”. The Islamic Emirate condemns these barbaric attacks in the strongest terms.” It is a clear violation of signed agreement that will have consequences, the Taliban said, referring to an agreement between the …

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Afghanistan: Afghan govt says Taliban killed over 100 civilians in Spin Boldak region after taking control
3 years, 5 months ago

Afghanistan: Afghan govt says Taliban killed over 100 civilians in Spin Boldak region after taking control

Op India  

The raging Afghanistan conflict has taken a turn for the worse as Taliban terrorists reportedly have killed more than 100 civilians, seemingly without any reason. “The brutal terrorists on the order of their Punjabi bosses ambushed the homes of the innocent Afghans in certain areas of Spin Boldak, looted the homes and martyred 100 innocent people,” said Mirwais Stanekzai, a …

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Troubling prospects in Afghanistan
3 years, 5 months ago

Troubling prospects in Afghanistan

The Hindu  

Last week, on Friday, the United States handed over the Bagram airbase to the Afghan authorities, marking a symbolic end to its military presence, as U.S. forces complete their withdrawal well ahead of the September 11 deadline, announced by American President Joe Biden on April 14. A costly misadventure Could anyone have predicted when the U.S. commenced its military intervention …

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