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The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed. He was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday. He and Osama Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together, and he was one […]
An explosion went off in Kabul’s main cricket stadium during a game on Friday, wounding four spectators and briefly halting the game, officials and police have said. The blast happened at a match between Pamir Zalmi and Band-e-Amir Dragons in the country’s domestic T20 league, held at the Kabul International Cricket Stadium. A spokesman for […]
At least two people have been killed and seven others injured following an attack on a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials said. A Taliban interior ministry spokesman said that attackers had laden a car with explosives but it had detonated before reaching its target. Taliban authorities were securing the site, he added. […]
Dozens of people have been killed or injured in four explosions across Afghanistan on Thursday, local officials said. The first explosion tore through a Shia mosque in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. At least 31 people were killed, and 87 were wounded, reports said. The Islamic State group (IS) admitted carrying out the attack. The Taliban […]
Dozens of protesters, mostly women, gathered close to Taliban’s Ministry of Education on Saturday demanding reopening of girl’s secondary schools. The Taliban has been condemned for ordering them to close, just hours after teenage pupils began to arrive for the start of the new academic year. The protesters chanted, “Education is our right! Open the doors […]
A baby boy separated from his parents in the chaos of the US evacuation of Afghanistan has finally been reunited with his family. The Taliban had just seized control of the country in August and many Afghans were desperately trying to flee. Two-month-old Sohail Ahmadi was handed to an American soldier over a fence, to […]
A prominent Afghan university professor who openly criticised the Taliban’s hardline regime has been arrested in Kabul, a spokesman for the government said. Professor Faizullah Jalal made several appearances on television talk shows since the previous US-backed government was ousted in August, blaming the Taliban for the worsening financial crisis and criticising them for ruling […]
The Taliban ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan to remove the heads of mannequins, insisting the life-sized figures violate Islamic law, according to a report. A video clip showing men sawing the plastic heads off female dummies went viral on social media, the AFP reported. Since returning to power in August, the Taliban has increasingly […]
Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani on Thursday described fleeing the Taliban’s victory march on Kabul, saying the decision had been taken in “minutes” and that he did not know he was leaving the country until he was taking off. Ghani told BBC’s Radio 4 “Today” programme that on the morning of August 15, 2021, the […]
A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s interior ministry said the attacker was shot and killed while trying to enter the passport office […]
The Taliban in Afghanistan has accidentally transferred around $800,000 into the bank account of the Afghan Embassy in Tajikistan and is now asking for it to be returned. The mission, whose head has professed his allegiance to the deposed government and firm opposition to the Taliban. According to reports the embassy, the money had been […]
The Taliban imposed new rules banning women from appearing in television dramas in Afghanistan. Female journalists and presenters have also been ordered to wear headscarves on screen, although the guidelines do not say which type of covering to use. Reporters say some of the rules are vague and subject to interpretation. The Taliban seized power […]