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towns of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
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Long War Journal
April 25, 2018
Taliban march in the desert with flags flying, then march through a town in Baghlan in broad daylight. Video from #Taliban's report on Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour Camp in Baghlan province #Afghanistan: pic.twitter.com/8BAH0lI5ad. — Long War Journal (@LongWarJournal) April 24, 2018.
Daily Excelsior
April 25, 2018
That China has many aces up its sleeve in Afghanistan is evident from recent reports that China, Afghanistan and Tajikistan were doing joint border patrolling along Tajikistan's border with the Afghan northern province of Badakhshan. The base for this border patrolling is a small town roughly 100 kms fromÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 22, 2018
Badakhshan activists, tribal elders and former jihadi commanders have started their own awareness campaign to encourage residents to take part in the voter registration process and elections. The campaigners are traveling to villages across the province to explain the process and to assure the peopleÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 17, 2018
Residents in insecure areas in Badakhshan meanwhile called on officials to ensure the safety of all voter registration centers in the province. “Badakhshan security agencies have the lowest facilities in terms of military power to suppress the enemy… people will not be able to attend elections if this situationÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 15, 2018
About one hundred tribal elders along with residents from Wardoj, Yamgan and Jurm districts of Badakhshan on Sunday gathered in Faizabad city, the provincial capital, and called on government to launch clearance operations against insurgents in their districts. At a meeting with the BadakhshanÃâà...
Long War Journal
April 10, 2018
In 2015, the IJU, which is loyal to the Afghan Taliban, took part in the latter's siege of Kunduz city. The same year, the IJU reported that its forces were active against the Afghan military in Kunduz and Badakhshan as part of the Taliban's 2015 Azm offensive. The IJU has also shown its fighters in northernÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 9, 2018
In Khost City, 700 people reportedly arrived from within Khost, Paktika and Baghlan provinces. Northern & North-Eastern Region: Continued military operations have reportedly newly displaced up to 2,800 people from remote villages of Jorm district, Badakhshan, to the district centre and Fayzabad City.
TOLOnews
April 7, 2018
At least eight Taliban insurgents were killed in an Afghan security forces operation in north-eastern Badakhshan province on Saturday, the Ministry of Defence ... The operation was launched in Jurm district of the province in order to eliminate the insurgents, Radmanish said, adding that “a number of villages in Jurm haveÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
April 2, 2018
militants and four civilians have been killed in an ongoing operation in the Jaram district of the northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday. Sanullah Roohani, police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Such village had been cleared of militants during the operation involvingÃâà...
The Siasat Daily
April 2, 2018
The officials further said that around five villages have been cleared in Badakhshan province. “In the past two days seven key members of the enemies including a Tajikistani citizen were killed and 17 others were wounded,” said Mohammad Naeem Majidi, an army commander in Badakhshan. A number ofÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 1, 2018
The operation is being conducted under the name of Operation Nusrat. So far, five villages have been cleared, officials said. “In the past two days seven key members of the enemies including a Tajikistani citizen were killed and 17 others were wounded,” said Mohammad Naeem Majidi, an army commander in Badakhshan.
Tulsa World
March 31, 2018
Asadullah Mujadedi, a district police chief there, says the battle broke out after security forces launched a clean-up operation in Badakhshan's Jurm district. ... Justin Taylan, an American World War II historian, was in central Rabaul when the quake hit and was not aware of any major damage to the town.
Tri-City Herald
March 31, 2018
A suicide bomber killed a provincial council member in northeast Kunar province, while a daylong gun battle in neighboring Badakhshan province left four civilians dead and another eight wounded, Afghan officials said Friday. Kunar provincial council member Shahwali Hemat was on his way to a localÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 24, 2018
PESHAWAR: A powerful earthquake was felt Saturday night in various cities of the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, Geo News reported, ... cites data from United States Geological Survey (USGS), the tremors originated 46 kilometres away from Jurm in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province.
TOLOnews
March 22, 2018
Work on the dam was stopped due to financial issues between the company and the Afghan government, but the problem has for now been resolved, Badakhshan governor Ahmad Faisal Begzad said. The dam will be built on Kokcha River on the outskirts of Faizabad City. The governor said the project, which started 15Ãâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 20, 2018
In November the following year, they similarly raised 250,000 Afghanis (3,600 dollars) to help the victims of a landslide in Badakhshan. Hikmatullah ... What had ultimately happened to the 2.7 million Afghani (400,000 dollars) collected by the municipality for Jabal Saraj Arg was also unclear. GulabuddinÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 15, 2018
In 2017, the ICRC continued to support families of missing persons to cope with psychological and social difficulties by helping to address their needs of legal and administrative nature and health care. We provided medical supplies to health care facilities in the borderline areas of Afghanistan andÃâà...
Dispatch News Desk
March 10, 2018
It is surrounded by Badakhshan in the east, Panjshir in the south, and Baghlan and Kunduz in the west. The city of Taloqan serves as its capital. Majority of population belong to Uzbeks and Tajiks ethnic groups while Pashtun, Hazara, Pashai, Kho and Turkmen are in minority. It is pertinent to mentioned thatÃâà...
The Nation
February 25, 2018
Some might argue that the tough physical terrain in Wakhan , Badakhshan, the part of Afghanistan bordering China, is a big hindrance for directly connecting the two ... Their access to markets and cities would help them sell their products, get access to education and find alternative sources of income.
BBC News
February 24, 2018
The district of Wakhan in the far east of Afghanistan is one of the most remote places on earth, accessible only on foot. Along with his team, Ershad Honaryar from BBC Persian made the five-day trek to a place called the "roof of the world". There, he asked people he met to smile for a photograph and tellÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 22, 2018
In January, in Badakhshan province, five armed men dragged a pregnant woman from her home and shot her dead in front of her husband and six children; witnesses said her ... In August, armed groups attacked the village of Mirza Olang, in Sar-e-Pul province, killing at least 36 people, including civilians.
CityNews
February 20, 2018
Mark Farrant spent five months as a juror at the 2014 trial in Toronto of Farshad Badakhshan, who was convicted of murdering his 23-year-old girlfriend, Carina Petrache. Badakhshan's trial heard that he stabbed the university student and then set fire to their place. Petrache fled the blaze but was badlyÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 10, 2018
The parents of two young policewomen who were shot dead by Taliban in Badakhshan province seven months ago said government promised them apartments but nothing has been forthcoming so far. Noor Haya and Manoora, who were sisters, were active policewomen in Faizabad City and were theÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 9, 2018
The green area of this map shows the Badakhshan region, divided between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. ... The Chinese are moving materials for the base construction through Tajikistan and, reportedly, Chinese troops have been delivering humanitarian supplies to local villages along the way.
IHS Jane's 360
February 8, 2018
“Over the past 96 hours, US forces conducted air operations to strike Taliban training facilities in Badakhshan Province, preventing the planning and rehearsal of terrorist acts near the border with China and Tajikistan,” US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) said in a statement, adding that the strikes alsoÃâà...
Eurasia Review
February 7, 2018
Fergana also talked to a local government official in Bazai Gonbad, near the eastern tip of Badakhshan, populated mostly by ethnic Kyrgyz, who said that Chinese soldiers visit the village “two or three times” a month. “They stay in the school building and sometimes give children candy and bread, but neverÃâà...
Xinhua
February 3, 2018
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least eight insurgents were confirmed dead as warplanes struck Taliban bastion in Wardoj district of Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province on Sunday, a local official said. "The warplanes for the first time over the past two years targeted Taliban mainÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
January 23, 2018
Ghulam Saeed, the administrative chief for Raghistan district where the incident happened, said the slain soldier hailed from Braqshoud village of Raghistan. He was killed during a clash with Taliban in Sangin district of southern Helmand province. His body was transferred here and buried on Monday atÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 30, 2017
in the Yaftal-i-Paen district of northeastern Badakhshan province has been freed against 300,000 afghanis ransom money, an official said. Col. Tash Mohammad ... Tash added: “The Taliban on daily bases patrol in the villages of Yaftal-i-Paen district and take people doubtful to them. Most of the army andÃâà...
TOLOnews
August 25, 2017
A large-scale military operation was launched to clear the outskirts of Faizabad City – in the northeastern Badakhshan province – of Taliban, local officials said on Friday. The operation is focused on Faizabad's three police districts – PD6, PD8 and PD9. Two weeks ago, Taliban attacked a police outpost inÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Kabul city needs 400 megawatts of power in 24 hours, but the power provided from thermal and hydropower is only 110 megawatts. This comes after a major pylon transmitting electricity to Kabul was blown up in Dasht-e-Kelagai area in Baghlan on Sunday night. Earlier last week two other pylons were badly damaged inÃâà...
Axios
December 31, 1999
On Friday, four civilians in Afghanistan's northeast Badakhshan province were killed, and eight injured, after a gun battle between the Taliban and security forces, per the Washington Post. That came after a suicide bomber in neighboring Kunar province killed two people and injured another. The bigger picture: The firstÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
(CNN) — We were sweaty, hungry and covered in dust as we left the Bartang Valley on another bluebird day in the Pamir Mountains. After a spectacular, but exhausting, two-day hike under the blazing August sun, it was a relief to finally settle in under the shade of the van for the ride back to Khorugh,Ãâà...
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