The European Union and other diplomatic missions in Afghanistan including Australia, Canada, the UK, the US and NATO, all called out the Taliban on Sunday and
Women, journalists and progressives gunned down as killings target Afghan civil society Saphora Smith and Ahmed Mengli
A slew of assassinations has struck Afghanistan, targeting mainly prominent women, journalists and other progressives.
The wave of targeted killings has stoked fear among Afghan intellectuals and heightened a general sense of anxiety about what the future holds in the battle-scarred nation.
As of Jan. 20, 40 people had been killed so far this year, according to Afghan Peace Watch, a nonprofit research and media organization, in addition to more than 130 individuals in the last three months of 2020.
The violence comes as fragile negotiations between the U.S.-backed Afghan government and Taliban insurgents to end the country’s decades-long conflict are underway in Qatar, with the government pushing for a ceasefire. It may also present a challenge for the Biden administration as it takes office just months before a slated May deadline for remaini
2 ANA Officers, 1 Civilian Killed as Attacks Continue in Kabul
Three people were killed and one more was wounded in two separate security incidents in Kabul on Thursday evening, according to security sources.
In the first incident, at least two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed in the Kot-e-Sangi area of PD5 in Kabul city on Thursday evening, a security source told TOLOnews.
The two ANA officers Sayed Abu Talib Sadat and Nawab Haidari belonged to 209 Shaheen Army Corps.
Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian blamed the Taliban for the assassination of the ANA soldiers.
The second incident happened in PD6 and one civilian was killed and two others were wounded in an IED blast that targeted a vehicle in PD6 of Kabul city.
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Five villages in Orgu district of Badakhshan province have fallen to the Taliban, the provincial police said Thursday.
Sanaullah Rouhani, a spokesman for Badakhshan police told Ariana News that the villages had recently been reclaimed by security forces but were overrun on Wednesday by the Taliban.
Rouhani stated that at least two members of the public uprising forces were killed and three others including a policeman were wounded in the clashes with the militants.
According to Rouhani, security forces have retreated to the center of Orgu district.
Meanwhile, the Taliban claimed that a civilian was shot dead by the Afghan forces in the district.
Taliban Warns Govt Against Execution of its Jailed Members
The Taliban in a statement on Thursday warned the Afghan government of severe response if any of its members cutting jails are executed. The group said that peace process and execution cant move together.
A Taliban spokesman has claimed that all those 5,000 Taliban prisoners who were released recently from the Afghan government jails as part of the US-Taliban peace agreement had been sentenced to death by the Afghan courts, warning that any mistreatment of the remaining prisoners will pose serious harms to the peace process.
Meanwhile,l officials of Directorate of Prisons have said that over 1,000 prisoners have been sentenced to death by the courts in Afghanistan.