Afghanistan News » Badakhshan News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » History: 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 » History: Pannier: Afghan groups battle Taliban near Tajik border
By Bruce Pannier Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban are facing a challenge from at least four different armed groups in the country’s northeastern Badakhshan Province. Two have attacked Taliban positions in ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » History: 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 » History: A second Taliban official is killed in attack in Afghanistan, as the takeover anniversary nears
KABUL, Afghanistan — The mayor for Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province has been killed in an explosion, officials said, the second high-ranking official of the Taliban administration to be ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » History: 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 » History: 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 » History: The Key Challenges The Taliban Face In Badakhshan – Analysis
The Taliban this month marked the fifth anniversary of its return to power with a military parade in Kabul and other celebrations. But a few hundred kilometers northeast of the capital there was ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » History: 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 ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » History: 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 » History: Anti-Taliban resistance groups increase attacks in northeast Afghanistan, district center briefly falls
Left to right: The Afghan Freedom Front emblem, the National Resistance Front emblem, and the Sephahiyan-e Mihan emblem. Over the last two weeks of July, anti-Taliban resistance groups conducted ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » History: Broadcasting Hope: Women’s Voice Radio Helps Afghan Teen Reclaim Her Future
Inside the studio of Women’s Voice Radio in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Credit: Learning Together. Friday, June 13, 2025 Inter Press Service The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained ...