Human Rights Watch: Taliban security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an Islamic State offshoot in eastern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, residents of Nangahar and Kunar provinces east of Kabul have discovered the bodies of more than 100 men dumped in canals and other locations.
Taliban security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an Islamic State offshoot in eastern Afghanistan.
At least 33 people were killed when in an explosion went off at a mosque in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Friday, officials said. Fourty-three others were wounded in the blast which happened in Imam Sahib district, said Zabiuhllah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). He said that the casualties were
Nangarhar officials said Friday that strawberry harvests in the eastern Afghan province have increased to 170 metric tonnes this year. According to the Nangarhar agriculture department, 300 acres of land is now used for the cultivation of strawberries in the province. Local farmers meanwhile said they could increase their crops if government helps establish greenhouses.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) Security personnel have arrested 18 suspected insurgents from Surkhrod district of the eastern Nangarhar province, a