Kandahar, Lashkar Gah and Herat have now fallen to the insurgents, who are racing to seize control of the entire country.
Tag: Herat (Afghanistan)
Afghan War Casualty Report: August 2021
At least 115 Afghan security forces and 58 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in the first five days of August.
Key Afghan City in Danger of Falling to the Taliban
Government reinforcements arrived Saturday in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, but people were fleeing their homes and a hospital in the city had been bombed.
Attacked and Vulnerable, Some Afghans Are Forming Their Own Armies
With U.S. troops leaving, the Taliban advancing, and a steady collapse of security force bases and outposts, the Hazara and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan are raising militias.
Exploding Fuel Tanker Ignites Enormous Fire on Afghanistan-Iran Border
Afghan officials say they do not know what caused the tanker to explode and set fire to more than 100 other nearby fuel tankers at a customs post on the border with Iran.
In Afghanistan, a Booming Kidney Trade Preys on the Poor
Widespread poverty and an ambitious private hospital are helping to fuel an illegal market — a portal to new misery for the country’s most vulnerable.
In a Village of Widows, the Opium Trade Has Taken a Deadly Toll
Afghan men in an impoverished border settlement die trying to smuggle opium into Iran, leaving behind loved ones forced to survive on their own.
A Radical Cleric Ignites an Islamist Resistance in Afghanistan
The cleric’s supporters in Herat are enforcing harsh Shariah law reminiscent of the Taliban’s. Women are alarmed, and the government has been able to do little.
In Afghan Attacks, Facts Are Murky. But It’s Clear Deaths Are Piling Up.
With peace talks stalled, the details of intensifying strikes across the country, and their toll on civilians, are increasingly hard to pin down. But there’s one certainty: Afghans are dying.
She Went to Prison for Killing Her Husband. The Pandemic Set Her Free.
Foroozan was one of nearly 20 women held in an Afghan women’s prison for murdering her spouse after years of abuse. “Thanks to coronavirus, I am given a second chance to live.”