It was afternoon, and the residents of the small village of Qariudal were happy about a simple event: pilgrims from the village had returned from Karbala. The village of Qariudal, consisting of mud houses nestled in the remote mountains of the Sangtakht and Bandar district in Daikundi province, is one of the poorest areas in Afghanistan, with no signs of prosperity or development. The villagers were joyfully preparing to welcome back the Karbala pilgrims. About 40 villagers were supposed to travel through the mountainous and dirt roads to Ghor…
A recent report by the United Nations Security Council regarding Afghanistan and the terrorist groups based in the country reveals that Al-Qaeda members have recently returned to Afghanistan from various countries, particularly Yemen, while the threat from ISIS-Khorasan is also on the rise in the country. According to this report, Abdulazim bin Ali, a seasoned Al-Qaeda commander from Libya, is working as an advisor to Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the Haqqani network and interior minister of the Taliban regime. Several other Al-Qaeda commande…
Two days after ISIS-Khorasan's deadly attack on the Taliban's Attorney General's Office on Monday, September 2nd, the Afghan Prosecutors' Association announced in a statement that 16 former government prosecutors were killed and many others were injured in the attack. Khalid Zadran, the Taliban police spokesperson in Kabul, initially reported that six people were killed and 13 were injured in the attack. The Afghan Prosecutors' Association stated that similar attacks in the past had also targeted Afghan prosecutors, resul…
I heard you have a daughter who, yesterday morning, you kissed on the cheek before heading to work, and she is eagerly waiting for your return. You have a mother in a remote village in Darwaz, Badakhshan, who still doesn’t know what has happened to her son. Brothers who are migrants, and a father whose condition I don’t know. I remember that hot summer day when you called me for the first time, speaking with your sweet Badakhshani accent, saying you had just arrived in Mazar and got my number from Sarwar Hosseini [the spokesperson of Kunduz …
Despite three years of unsuccessful efforts to reclaim military helicopters and planes from Afghanistan's previous government that were transferred by Afghan military pilots to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on the day the former government fell, the Taliban continue to insist on obtaining these helicopters and planes. On August 15, 2021, just hours after former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul to the United Arab Emirates, Afghan military pilots, along with some family members, flew military helicopters and planes to Uzbekistan and Taji…
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