By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 25, 2024 Chinese engineers and the Taliban government officially started work on a massive project in Afghanistan to mine the world’s second-largest deposit of copper. At the July 24 event at Mes Aynak, some 40 kilometers southeast of the capital, Kabul, Taliban officials along with Chinese businessmen and diplomats carried outRead More...

Sisters Yulduz and Fariba Hashimi are set to become the first female cyclists from Afghanistan to compete in the Olympics. The siblings fled their country after the Taliban seized power in 2021 and cracked down on women’s rights, including banning women from participating in sports. Related As an Afghan woman athlete, I’m proud to seeRead More...

Afghanistan International: Several sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that Rahimi’s wife was the first person to enter the mosque after the attack and witnessed the assailants. According to sources, Rahimi’s wife reported that the attackers were from “Pashtun” ethnicity, but the Taliban members did not accept her testimony, insisting that since she is a woman,Read More...

RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal: Pakistan after a nine-month closure that resulted in financial losses and rising anger on both sides. Click here to read more (external link).

Afghanistan International: UNAMA has republished a survey from April highlighting that only four percent of Afghans want the Taliban government to be recognised. According to the survey, 45 percent of respondents said that to improve the situation for women in the country, the international community should facilitate direct dialogue between them and the Taliban. ClickRead More...

By Tahir Khan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 23, 2024 Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the largest Islamist party in Pakistan, has voiced his opposition to a planned operation by the military to root out militants along the Afghan border. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal on July 22, the controversial cleric called for peace talks betweenRead More...

Afghanistan International: On Monday, the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) stated that its members had attacked a “convoy of Taliban intelligence militia” in the Karte Sakhi area of Kabul city. The AFF claimed that four Taliban members had been killed and another individual had been injured in this attack. This is the second attack by thisRead More...

Hindustan Times: Afghanistan continues to have massive stockpiles of opium that can be used to meet the needs of narcotics trafficking networks despite a ban imposed by the Taliban on poppy cultivation, according to a new report by the United Nations Security Council. A majority of drugs trafficked to India comes from Afghanistan, and Pakistan’sRead More...

Afghanistan International: The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced on Sunday evening that its forces targeted “Mullah Zarin Gujar, the Taliban’s head of transportation” in Baghlan province. According to the front, in this attack, two Taliban members were “killed”, and there is “no precise information available” about the fate of Mullah Zarin. Click here to readRead More...

By Firuza Azizi Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 22, 2024 The Taliban has detained a former politician, a journalist, and a filmmaker in recent days across Afghanistan, according to their relatives. The detentions mark a sharp escalation of the extremist group’s crackdown on dissent, a violent campaign that has targeted reporters, activists, and political figures. TheRead More...

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal July 21, 2024 Pakistan on July 21 reopened a key border crossing point with Afghanistan after a nine-month closure following complaints by residents. Pakistan in October closed the Chaman-Spin Boldak border that runs through Pashtun communities, ending the century-old Easement Rights, which had allowed certain communities along the 19th-century Durand Line borderRead More...



Afghanistan International: In a speech marking his first joint campaign with his running mate, J.D. Vance, Donald Trump asserted that the Afghanistan crisis would never have happened if he had been president. He also stated that he would have retained control of Bagram Air Base, which he claims is now under China’s control. Click hereRead More...

Ariana: Over the past 20 years, more than 39,000 Australian soldiers served in Afghanistan. As part of peacekeeping efforts alongside the United States and other allies, 400 Australian soldiers were deployed until their withdrawal in 2021. During that time, an investigation revealed that Australian soldiers committed war crimes, including the murder and abuse of numerousRead More...

Afghanistan International: Local sources in Bamiyan have told Afghanistan International that at least two villagers had been injured during clashes between nomads and villagers in Punjab District. According to these sources, one of the injured individuals was shot, while the other sustained a head injury after being hit by a stone. Click here to readRead More...



By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 19, 2024 The homes of several Afghan migrants in the southern Iranian city of Khur have reportedly been set on fire in apparent retaliation for the killing of an Iranian man allegedly by an Afghan national. Hosna, an Afghan who lives in Khur, told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on July 19 that he movedRead More...

Michael Hughes July 19, 2024 Afghanistan was not at the forefront of mind for most American voters in 2020, but four years later the situation is much different. With less than four months until the U.S. presidential election Afghanistan is at the center of attention, but not about go-forward policies. It is all about theRead More...

The National (UAE): Mohammad Samim Faizad is the only Olympic athlete training for the Games inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Faizad is part of a six-strong Afghanistan squad heading to Paris, including three women who are not acknowledged by the Taliban government. Click here to read more (external link).

Afghanistan International: A source from the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) told Afghanistan International that the United States rejected a visa request from Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the front, to appease the Taliban. Meanwhile, Massoud stated in a recent interview that the United States opposes his presence in the country. On Tuesday, JulyRead More...

8am: Widespread poverty and persistent unemployment have severely affected the majority of the citizens of Afghanistan, drastically reducing their purchasing power. Many citizens report that poverty and unemployment have deprived students and university attendees of continuing their education, with numerous families going to bed hungry each night. Over the past three years, the Taliban haveRead More...

Afghanistan International: The Taliban has disarmed and imprisoned one of their Tajik commanders in the Chah Ab district of Takhar province. Local sources told Afghanistan International that Haji Ghulam Hussain had been arrested six days ago, and 350 of his forces had been disarmed. Bashir was a former commander of the Hizb-e-Islami who later joinedRead More...

Cycling News: After an investigation spanning almost three years, the UCI announced on Tuesday that it has suspended Afghanistan Cycling Federation President Fazli Ahmad Fazli for 15 months for breaches of the UCI Code of Ethics. Fazli was accused of sending abusive and threatening messages to athletes during and after the mass evacuation from theRead More...

By Kian Sharifi Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 16, 2024 An unsubstantiated claim on social media linking an alleged rise in leprosy cases in Iran to the country’s Afghan community has resulted in renewed calls for the expulsion of Afghan migrants. Iranian media have cited the Health Ministry as reporting nine new cases of leprosy over theRead More...

8am: Local sources in Khost district, Baghlan province, claim that four Taliban fighters sexually assaulted three members of a family, including two women and a 13-year-old girl. According to the sources, this incident happened Tuesday night last week in the village of “Dehkhiri Faroz” in Khost district. One source said, “Four Taliban fighters entered theRead More...

The Telegraph (UK): Taliban officials in Afghanistan have been filmed dancing to music – both of which they immediately banned in a draconian crackdown when they returned to power. The militant group – who outlawed music, dance, and any form of public celebration – were caught on video swaying and twirling with guns slung overRead More...

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 15, 2024 Thirty-five people have died and more than 230 others have been injured in heavy rains and storms in Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, the provincial administration of the Taliban-led government said on July 15 in a statement. Earlier on July 15, five people died in heavy rain and floodsRead More...

Afghanistan International: Raiessa Yazdanparast, a former senior officer at the National Directorate of Security (NDS), has disclosed that she was detained by the Taliban from her home in Kabul and subjected to one and a half months of torture in prison. Yazdanparast told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have access to information about NDS officers,Read More...