Taliban fighters overran large parts of Kunduz city along with the capitals of Takhar and Sar-e-Pul provinces in northern and northeastern Afghanistan Sunday after intense fighting that lasted several days. Hundreds of families fled Kunduz, in the province of the same name, leaving everything behind. Social media videos showed people running in panic and clouds of black smoke rising in […]

President Ashraf Ghani met with prominent Afghan political and Jihadi leaders Monday and discussed the current situation in Afghanistan, the Presidential Palace (ARG) said in a statement. According to ARG, the Afghan leaders decided to equip public uprising forces quickly in order for them to fight the Taliban militants. “In this meeting, a decision was made on supporting the security […]

The effort to fend off panic and minimize losses has taken on outsize importance following the seizure of five provincial capitals by the Taliban. First, a remote provincial capital in Afghanistan’s southwest fell. The next day, it was a city in Afghanistan’s north. By Sunday, Taliban fighters had taken three more cities, including their biggest prize yet, the major provincial […]

Heavy clashes continue in Kunduz city in the northern province of Kunduz since their start on Saturday night, according to security sources. Dozens of shops and buildings have caught fire in fighting around the Kunduz airport and police HQ in the city, the sources said. “The Taliban have taken Chawk-e-Kunduz (the center of the city),” sources said. Dozens of families […]

Central parts of the city of Sar-e-Pul and many areas in Kunduz city have fallen to the Taliban after heavy clashes between the two sides. Reports indicate that in Sar-e-Pul the governor’s compound, the police headquarters and the NDS office have fallen to the Taliban. Local officials said that security forces are stationed in an army base in Sar-e-Pul and […]

Heavy fighting continued in the city of Sheberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, for the second day with Taliban taking over some key areas, including the provincial prison. Taliban released a video on Saturday morning showing prisoners escaping Jawzjan prison. Some key areas in the city remain contested for the last 24 hours. Taliban took over the provincial governor’s […]

The Taliban seized the stronghold of a notorious Afghan warlord on Saturday as forces and the Taliban were fighting fiercely on Sunday in the centre of Kunduz, a major provincial capital, officials and residents said. According to officials, the second provincial capital to fall to the insurgents in under 24 hours. Another media report said on Sunday that heavy fighting […]

Analysts predict that the fall of Zaranj city on the border with Iran will deprive the Afghan government from $175 million in revenue a year. With the fall of Zaranj, the Taliban is now controlling at least 10 border towns, including Islam Qala and Torghundi in Herat, Abu Nasr-e-Farahi in Farah, Spin Boldak in Kandahar, Sher Khan in Kunudz, Dand-e-Pathan […]

Reports indicate that the Afghan security forces and the Taliban are engaged in fierce fighting in the capital cities of Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces in the north of Afghanistan. The Public Health Directorate in Kunduz said that 11 civilians were killed and 39 more were wounded in fresh spate of clashes in the city of Kunduz that started on […]

Taliban fighters on Sunday took over government buildings in two provincial capitals, Kunduz and Sar-e Pol, bringing to four the number of capitals in Afghanistan that the insurgent group has seized in the last three days. On Saturday, the Taliban captured Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan province, and on Friday, Zaranj, the capital of Nimruz, fell “without a fight,” according […]