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Armed resistance against the Taliban is expanding across Afghanistan as new opposition groups emerge and former security personnel join the fight.
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » Politics: Traditional 'goat pulling' sport outlasts Afghan wars, politics
PANJSHIR, Afghanistan: A crash of horses and men deep in a mountain pass signals the start of another game of buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport. Buzkashi, which translates roughly as “goat ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » Politics: When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan - it became a ten-year war
In December 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan expecting a swift stabilization of a friendly regime - but instead ignited one of the most consequential conflicts of the late Cold War.
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » Politics: Afghanistan’s Resistance Is Spreading
The emergence of the Afghanistan United Front (AUF), led by former Afghan army commander Sami Sadat, has drawn attention to Afghanistan’s changing resistance landscape. Since launching its campaign in ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » Politics: 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 » Panjshir » Politics: 25 years since Ahmad Shah Massoud's assassination: The warning the West missed - analysis
Two days before 9/11, Al Qaeda killed Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Afghan commander who had spent years fighting the Taliban and warning the West about the threat growing under its protection ...
News Afghanistan » Panjshir » Politics: ‘Green Energy’ Helps to Move Afghanistan Forward
Soldiers, government officials and journalists descended on Afghanistan’s Panjshir province yesterday for the grand opening of several developmental projects, including a “green energy” wind farm. The ...