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The Panjshir Valley, already hard hit with snow slides earlier this week, was hit anew with fresh avalanches, reports the provincial governor, Abdul Rahman Kabiri. He told the BBC avalanches 40m ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Afghanistan war rekindles, claiming lives and sending civilians fleeing as Taliban battles Panjshir valley resistance
Afghanistan's Taliban, which spent 20 years fighting the U.S.-backed government in Kabul as an insurgency, is now battling to defend its increasingly draconian rule from resistance forces bent on ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: New Bridge Brings Hope, Safety to Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley
More than 100 Afghans and Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team members attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new $180,000 Bakshi Khiel Bridge in the Rokha district of Afghanistan’s Panjshir ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: In Afghanistan's Panjshir, disquiet over Taliban reconciliation
DALASANG, Afghanistan, Sept 8 (Reuters) - At the entrance to Afghanistan's magnificent Panjshir Valley, an 84-year-old supporter of resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud said his village was fully armed ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Afghanistan: Taliban’s cruel attacks in Panjshir province amount to war crime of collective punishment – new report
The Taliban have committed the war crime of collective punishment against civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The report, ‘Your ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: New Reports Of Fighting In Afghanistan's Panjshir Trigger Fresh Claims Of Taliban War Crimes
PARWAN, Afghanistan -- Resistance to the Taliban is flaring up in northeastern Afghanistan, and as reports of deadly fighting increase, so are claims of war crimes against civilians. The fighting is ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Fighting continues between Taliban and anti-Taliban group in Afghanistan's Panjshir province
KABUL: Fighting continued between Taliban fighters and the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) in Panjshir Valley on Saturday, both sides confirmed, despite earlier announcements that ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Afghanistan’s Panjshir Resistance Fighters Are Back on the Battlefield
Spokesmen for the National Resistance Front, a group of Afghan soldiers still loyal to the previous government that has waged a guerilla war against the Taliban since the group’s takeover, claimed ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Afghanistan: Taliban Torture Civilians in Panjshir
(New York) – Taliban security forces in northern Afghanistan’s Panjshir province have unlawfully detained and tortured residents accused of association with an opposition armed group, Human Rights ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Afghanistan: Taliban must immediately stop unlawful killings and arbitrary arrests in Panjshir
Responding to reports of use of torture, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary arrest of civilians by the Taliban in Panjshir province of Afghanistan, Zaman Sultani, Amnesty International’s South ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Afghan poet falsely claims that Afghanistan's Panjshir is part of Iran
On March 25, Iran-based Tasnim News Agency posted an article headlined "Leader Encourages Poets to Harness Power of Poetry Against Global Tyranny.” It noted that 40 poets gathered at the Imam Khomeini ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » History: Taliban says 40 rebels killed in northern Afghanistan’s Panjshir
The Taliban says it has killed 40 members of a rebel force, including four commanders, in the northern Afghanistan province of Panjshir. The Taliban proclaimed victory over the province in September ...