Afghanistan News » Badakhshan News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Recent Violence Underscores Problems Facing Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province
The geographic and social conditions that make Badakhshan difficult for the Taliban to control also make it difficult for any widespread unrest to spill out from the region. Unless things escalate ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Cheap Imports And Declining Investments Imperil Afghan Crafts
The sound of a hammer forging copper formed a soundtrack to Faizabad's handicraft markets 50 years ago, when hundreds of coppersmiths sold plates, pots, and copper ornaments in the bustling Afghan ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Is Badakhshan Becoming the Epicenter of Anti-Taliban Resistance?
On August 9, Taliban officials claimed to have captured 74 light and heavy weapons that were allegedly being smuggled in from Pakistan to support what they termed “subversive and destabilizing ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Afghanistan: Badakhshan Territory In Turmoil – Analysis
Badakhshan Province is in the midst of severe disorders, experiencing violent anti-Taliban rebellions, intense internal mutinies within the Taliban structure, and crises over the mining of natural ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Spate Of Attacks In Northern Afghanistan Pose Test For Taliban
During the 1990s, Afghanistan's vast and mountainous province of Badakhshan was a bastion of resistance to the rule of the Taliban. Now, the resource-rich region is again becoming a thorn on the side ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: How anti-Taliban fighters seized Afghan district on Pakistan borders
For several hours early on Friday, July 17, an armed anti-Taliban group claimed to have taken control of the Yaftal-e-Paeen district headquarters in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Badakhshan and the First Signs of a Localized Anti-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
The available evidence suggests that Badakhshan, in northeastern Afghanistan, may be witnessing the earliest signs of a localized anti-Taliban insurgency, the first since August 2021. Several days of ...