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The conflict erupted at the Kurram district bordering Khost province of Afghanistan. The skirmish reportedly broke out when Taliban forces attempted to construct a security outpost on the Afghan side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border barrier , prompting Pakistani troops to open fire to force the other side to stop the activity.
Dozens of women from the Hazara community of Afghanistan protested after a suicide bombing in September 2022, occurred in an educational center that killed more than 52 young girls. Today (2021–present), the Hazaras suffer from widespread ethnic discrimination, [11] [12] [13] religious persecution, [14] [15] and organized attacks by terrorist ...
Border tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan rose after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021. The Taliban denied harboring anti-Pakistan militants in Afghanistan, but they were infuriated by Pakistan's erection of a barbed barrier along their 2,670 km (1,660 mi) border, known as the Durand Line, which was demarcated by the British in 1893 and divided the homeland of ethnic Pashtuns ...
Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster called on President Biden to “reverse course” in the aftermath of Thursday’s bombings in Kabul, urging him to scrap his deadline for ...
Protests in Afghanistan held by Islamic democrats and feminists against the treatment of women by the Taliban began on 17 August 2021, following the fall of Kabul.Supported by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, the protesters also demanded decentralization, multiculturalism, social justice, [4] labor, education, and food. [5]
Afghan diaspora refers to the Afghan people that reside and work outside of Afghanistan. They include natives and citizens of Afghanistan who have immigrated to other countries. The majority of the diaspora has been formed by Afghan refugees since the start of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979; the largest numbers temporarily reside in Iran.
The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing low-level [51] [52] guerrilla war [53] [54] between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side, [40] and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the state controlled by the Taliban) on the other side. [55]
The Balkhab uprising was a Hazara rebellion in Balkhab district, Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan against the Taliban. It was led by Mehdi Mujahid, and it began on 23 June 2022 after Mehdi Mujahid's forces captured Balkhab district. Initially, the Taliban did not take Mehdi Mujahid seriously when he declared war against them.