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The Afshar Operation was a military operation in Afghanistan that took place on February 11–12, 1993 during the Second Afghan Civil War.The operation was launched by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani's Islamic State of Afghanistan government and the allied Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Ittehad-i Islami paramilitary forces against Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezbe Islami and Abdul Ali Mazari's ...
It is reported that between May and July 1997 Abdul Malik Pahlawan (or Malik's brother General Gul Mohammad Pahlawan [16]) summarily executed thousands of Taliban members. "He is widely believed to have been responsible for the massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban prisoners after inviting them into Mazar-i-Sharif."
Highlander Scott McLaren (31 January 1991 – 4 July 2011) [1] was a British infanteer from the 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland who went out on his own from a secure base in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Around 900 members of the Taliban were released from a prison near Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 26, as part of a prisoner swap agreement made with the United States in Qatar in late ...
A CF333 ID card, which Rahmatullah provided in his application for help, bears a Union Jack flag and the words: “The bearer of this pass is a member of commando force 333 which is partnered with ...
Others have been detained over content found on their phones or posted on social media, suggesting the Taliban could be using the internet to track down members of the LGBTQ community, Akbary said.
Some early reports mentioned that three or four bodies had been found lined up, implicating that these soldiers could have been captured alive and executed; this was denied by French military authorities and government. Taliban leaders claimed to have captured and killed wounded soldiers, and to have destroyed five vehicles and used land mines.
After Taliban commander Awal Gul died of a heart attack at Guantanamo Bay on February 2, 2011, the demand was reduced to five Taliban prisoners. [53] [54] On April 7, 2010, the Taliban released a third video depicting Bergdahl, pleading for the release of Afghan prisoners held at Guantanamo and Bagram. In November 2010, Bergdahl appeared ...