KABUL, Afghanistan—The Taliban hung a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness said Saturday, in a gruesome display that signaled a return to some of the Taliban’s methods of the past. Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square, told…
Top Taliban Official: Executions, Strict Punishment Will Return to Afghanistan
A top Taliban official in Afghanistan said that the extremist group that now rules the country will carry out executions and the amputations of hands and feet. Speaking to The Associated Press, Taliban co-founder Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed criticism of the group’s previous rule of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, where public executions, floggings, stonings, and…
Afghanistan Girls Soccer Team Given Asylum in Portugal
The girls on Afghanistan’s national soccer team were anxious. For weeks, they had been moving around the country, waiting for word that they could leave. One wants to be a doctor, another a movie producer, others engineers. All dream of growing up to be professional soccer players. The message finally came early Sunday: A charter…
Taliban Expand Economic Team as Afghan Crisis Deepens
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban terrorist group bolstered its economic team on Tuesday, naming a commerce minister and two deputies as the group tries to revive a financial system in shock from the abrupt end to billions of dollars in foreign aid. Nooruddin Azizi, a businessman from Panjshir province north of Kabul, was named as acting minister…
Liberal Cabinet Minister Monsef Loses Seat in Sept. 20 Election
Minister of Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef lost her seat in the Sept. 20 election. Monsef, who was seeking re-election for a third term in Peterborough-Kawartha, received over 22,000 votes, around 3,000 votes shy of her Conservative rival Michelle Ferreri. Monsef’s campaign was marred with controversy when she made an impassioned appeal directly to the Taliban…
Liberal Cabinet Minister Maryam Monsef Loses Seat in Election
Minister of Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef lost her seat in the Sept. 20 election. Monsef, who was seeking re-election for a third term in Peterborough-Kawartha, received over 22,000 votes, around 3,000 shy of her Conservative rival Michelle Ferreri. Monsef’s campaign was marred by controversy after she made an impassioned appeal to the Taliban in late…
ISIS Bomb Attacks on Taliban Raise Specter of Wider Conflict
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The ISIS terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly roadside bombs targeting Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan, raising the specter of wider conflict between the country’s new Taliban rulers and their long-time rivals. A string of explosions struck Taliban vehicles in Afghanistan’s provincial city of Jalalabad over the weekend,…
ISIS-K Claims Responsibility for Bombings Targeting Taliban Vehicles Over the Weekend
ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for several bombings in Afghanistan over the weekend that targeted the Taliban and killed several people, while dozens more were injured. In two statements, the terrorist group claimed three separate bomb attacks targeting three Taliban vehicles in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, on Saturday and another bomb attack on Sunday on a Taliban vehicle….
Taliban Order Kabul Government Female Employees to Leave Workforce, Stay at Home
The Taliban terrorist group has ordered the majority of women employed in the Kabul city government to exit the workforce and remain at home, the interim mayor of Afghanistan’s capital announced on Sunday. During his first press briefing since being appointed by the Taliban, interim Kabul Mayor Hamdullah Namony said that women must remain at…
The Taliban’s Arsenal of Weapons
In this episode of Counterculture with Danielle D’Souza Gill, Danielle analyzes the Taliban’s military arsenal. She argues that President Joe Biden leaving behind so much U.S. military equipment, withdrawing our troops without first evacuating Americans, and now giving “aid” to the Taliban point to the fact that this is not just incompetence on Biden’s part….
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