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AdvertisementIn the years since the US and its NATO allies left Afghanistan, a particularly violent branch of the Islamic State terror group has grown stronger. During the first few years of its existence, ISIS-K attacks were mainly confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The first year under the Taliban's rule saw a sharp uptick in terror attacks inside Afghanistan. But that trend has changed in recent months; attacks inside the country declined while attacks beyond its borders have increased. Thus, the conditions inside Afghanistan have awarded the terror group space to develop a greater capacity to stage external attacks.
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It is a branch of ISIS, the terror group that emerged in Syria and Iraq and, at its peak, controlled a huge stretch of territory. By 2018, ISIS-K was ranked the world’s fourth-deadliest terror group, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, which monitors global terrorism. Video Ad Feedback What we know about ISIS group claiming responsibility for Moscow terror attack 04:16 - Source: CNNWhat do they want? Russian state media reported on March 7 that the FSB, Russia’s security service, prevented an ISIS attack on a synagogue in Moscow, according to Reuters. It is the most active terror group in the country, responsible for 73 deaths in 2023, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Separate traffic crashes in eastern Afghanistan have left at least 33 people dead and 16 others injured, authorities said Sunday. Ten others were injured in the crashes and they were hospitalized for treatment, Zadran said. Meanwhile, four additional collisions happened in the eastern Laghman province near the end of the same highway between Kabul and Nangarhar, killing 15 people, according to a statement from the Laghman police chief. One person was killed and six others were injured in other parts of Laghman province, it added. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesTraffic crashes are common in Afghanistan, mainly because of poor road conditions and the carelessness of drivers on highways.
Persons: Khalid Zadran, Zadran Locations: ISLAMABAD, Afghanistan, Sorabi, Kabul province, Kabul, Nangarhar, Laghman
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces on Wednesday rounded up, detained and deported dozens of Afghans who were living in the country illegally, after a government-set deadline for them to leave expired, authorities said. According to the U.N. agencies, there are more than 2 million undocumented Afghans in Pakistan, at least 600,000 of whom fled after the Taliban takeover in 2021. Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration have become strained over the past two years because of stepped-up attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, a separate militant group that is allied with the Afghan Taliban. Since the government deadline was announced on October 3, more than 200,000 Afghans have returned home from Pakistan. Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez in Islamabad and Abdul Sattar in Quetta, Pakistan, contributed to this report.
Persons: Sarfraz Bugti, , Zabihullah Mujahid, ” Mujahid, , Ahmad Banwari, Banwari, ___ Khan, Rahim Faiez, Abdul Sattar Organizations: ” Interim, Taliban, Afghanistan’s, Pakistani Taliban, Associated Press Locations: ISLAMABAD, Islamabad, Pakistan, Afghanistan, , , Karachi, Rawalpindi, Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, The New York, Kabul, Nangarhar, Pakistani, Taliban Pakistan, United States, Peshawar, Quetta
PESHAWAR/KABUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The main Afghanistan-Pakistan land border crossing reopened on Friday after being closed for nine days following firing between guards on both sides, a senior Pakistani official told Reuters. Thousands of travellers and hundreds of trucks laden with goods were left stranded last week by the closure the Torkham border crossing, at the western end of the fabled Khyber Pass. Spokespersons for Pakistan's foreign ministry and the Afghan authorities in Nangarhar province confirmed the reopening of the crossing. "The border closure was causing huge losses to traders and common people of the two neighbouring countries," Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, director of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry said. The Taliban foreign ministry criticised the closure of the crossing and said Pakistan security forces had fired on its border guards as they fixed an old security outpost.
Persons: It's, Abdul Nasir Khan, Torkham, Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Mushtaq Ali, Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Gibran Peshimam, Tom Hogue, Gerry Doyle, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: Reuters, Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Thomson Locations: PESHAWAR, KABUL, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistan's Khyber, Nangarhar province, Pakistani, Peshawar, Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Kabul, Torkham
“Currently we don’t have security in Afghanistan at all, whenever we go out we don’t know if we will come home alive or not,” he added. Taliban security forces guard a checkpoint near the foreign ministry in Kabul on March 27, after an ISIS-K suicide bomber struck the site. The data, which is available in a live map, includes 367 pieces of open-source evidence — largely videos and images shared on social media — about 70 ISIS-K attacks since August 2021. As the Taliban try to minimize the threat ISIS-K poses, attacks on civilians continue. Taliban security forces have been waging ongoing operations and night raids against ISIS-K.
The Taliban, an Islamist fundamentalist group that rules Afghanistan, has increasingly excluded women and girls in education and employment. The Taliban has further tightened restrictions on Afghan women by banning them from working for the United Nations, putting at risk the agency’s multibillion-dollar aid program in Afghanistan. The U.N. warned Tuesday of “serious concern” after its female Afghan staff were prevented by the authorities from entering their offices in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Working for the U.N. was one of the last avenues of employment left for women in Afghanistan.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would view any ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in their country as "unacceptable and, frankly, inconceivable", he said. The restrictions did not initially apply to the United Nations and some other international organisations. In January, the U.N Deputy Secretary-General flagged concerns that authorities could next restrict Afghan women working at international organisations. It was not immediately clear whether foreign embassies in Kabul had received similar instructions on female staff. Article 8 of its governing charter requires the U.N. not to place any restrictions on men and women working for U.N. agencies.
In another sign of domestic opposition, several Afghan cricketers condemned the university ban. The latest condemnations of the university ban came from Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi foreign ministry expressed “astonishment and regret” at Afghan women being denied a university education. Another show of support for female university students came at Nangarhar Medical University. Local media reported that male students walked out in solidarity and refused to sit exams until women’s university access was reinstated.
Însărcinatul cu afaceri american Ross Wilson susţine însă că amplificarea violenţelor în Afganistan este cauzată de talibani, pe care îi acuză că îşi încalcă angajamentele asumate în cadrul discuţiilor de pace, chiar în timp ce forţele SUA îşi continuă retragerea. "Stat Islamic rămâne o forţă puternică, iar acesta este unul dintre numeroasele motive pentru care vom continua să le furnizăm autorităţilor afgane un ajutor în materie de securitate şi contraterorism", a declarat Wilson în interviul acordat luni agenţiei France Presse.Stat Islamic a revendicat atacul asupra moscheii, dar nu şi pe cel asupra şcolii. "Atentatul asupra şcolii şi cel asupra moscheii de peste câteva zile par mai degrabă să fi fost comise de aşa-numitul Stat Islamic", a declarat Wilson, adăugând că elemente ale Al-Qaida continuă de asemenea să acţioneze în ţară. "Dar nu spun asta pentru a exonera pe cineva, şi cu siguranţă nu pe talibani pentru violenţele în care ei sunt direct implicaţi sau pentru ecosistemul de terorism şi de violenţă la care ei rămân profund, profund, profund complici", a adăugat el.În ciuda dezminţirilor talibanilor şi a revendicărilor făcute de Stat Islamic, guvernul afgan pune deseori pe seama talibanilor violenţele împotriva civililor, susţinând că SI a fost învins în urmă cu doi ani în fostul său bastion, provincia Nangarhar din estul ţării.Organizaţia jihadistă a atras atenţia presei în 2014 atunci când şi-a făcut apariţia în zone întinse din provinciile Nangarhar şi Kunar (nord-est). Susţinătorii săi au revendicat apoi atentate comise inclusiv la Kabul, fiind în acelaşi timp atacaţi de forţele americane, afgane şi chiar de talibani.
Persons: american Ross Wilson susţine, Wilson, - Qaida, jihadistă Organizations: Islamic Locations: american, Afganistan, SUA, ţară, afgan, Nangarhar, Kabul
Afghanistan is being overrun by crystal meth
  + stars: | 2021-05-07 | by ( Ali Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
The US is leaving behind a flourishing, violent trade in heroin and crystal meth in Afghanistan. HERAT, Afghanistan — For weeks, Afghan police had been staking out a single-family house they believed was being used as a meth lab. Afghanistan's drug trade generates an estimated $35 million a month for the Taliban and drug gangs. A mysterious grassIn 2017, rumors circulated in western Afghanistan that a mysterious form of grass had been found to contain the key ingredient in crystal meth. "So long as this war continues, the drug trade will continue to grow bigger and bigger.
Atac armat într-o moschee din Afganistan. Opt bărbați au fost ucişi după ce mai mulți indivizi înarmaţi neidentificaţi au deschis focul în lăcașul de cult din provincia Nangarhar. "Conform primelor informaţii, cauza incidentului a fost o dispută în legătură cu un teren privat", a adăugat Amarkhail. Un purtător de cuvânt al poliţiei a spus că incidentul este anchetat, dar că nu a fost arestată încă nicio persoană. În luna aprilie a anului trecut, cel puţin şase membri ai unui trib au fost ucişi şi alţi aproape 20 au fost răniţi în ciocniri armate în legătură cu pământuri aflate în dispută în aceeaşi provincie.
Organizations: Islamic Locations: Afganistan, Nangarhar, Jalalabad
În 2017, mai multe persoane, între care un şofer al postului de televiziune au fost ucise într-o explozie în apropiere de sediul acestuia. În 2018, directorul canalului a fost răpit de necunoscuţi înarmaţi, dar a fost eliberat mai târziu. Atacul de joi nu a fost deocamdată revendicat. În 2019, cel puţin 10 jurnalişti şi membri de personal din media au fost ucişi pe teritoriul acestei ţări. Anul precedent a fost însă şi mai sângeros, cu 20 de reporteri şi lucrători din media ucişi în diferite atacuri violente.
Persons: afgani Locations: Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Afganistanului, Kabul, afgană, Helmand
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