4/30/2023 0 Comments Taliban ambushedThe talks were interrupted following a Taliban attack on Bagram airfield, destroying a health facility nearby the Bagram military base.īut, recently sources close to Taliban had said a Taliban delegation have travelled to Pakistan to consult with their leaders and senior members on the ‘ceasefire’. This comes as the U.S peace envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad restarted negotiations with Taliban few weeks back focusing on violence reduction, ceasefire and intra-Afghan talks. As a result of this operation we killed 20 soldiers including commander Latif, injured 6 of them and have detained 4 soldiers alive,” a Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted. “We attacked an enemy military base in Dawlatabad district of Balkh province last night. On the other hand, Taliban has announced killing of 20 Afghan security forces, injuring 6 and detaining another 4 of them alive. MOI has confirmed death of only 7 Afghan soldiers in this attack, apparently did not want to disclose the exact figures of casualties sustained in Taliban attack. The Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Affairs released a statement, confirming the Taliban attack on an Afghan security check-point in Dawlatabad district of Balkh. Mohammad Yousuf, the district governor of Dawlatabad where the incident took place have spoken to Reuters confirming dozens of Taliban insurgents targeted a checkpoint manned jointly by Afghan soldiers and intelligence agents, killing 15. It has vowed to resist the Taliban after they overran the country and seized power in August 2021.Īli Maisam Nazary, head of foreign relations at the National Resistance Front for Afghanistan, said: "The Taliban committed war crimes by killing POWs that surrendered to them point blank and the videos are evidence of this."Īfghan Witness said it has credible evidence of a further 30 deaths due to last month's Taliban offensive against alleged resistance fighters in Panjshir.Taliban have ambushed an Afghan military check-point in Dawlatabad district of northern Balkhi province, killing at least security members, officials said on Tuesday. The force fighting in the mountainous Panjshir Valley north of Kabul a remote region that has defied conquerors before rose out of the last remnants of Afghanistan's shattered security forces. He gave no details on how the 40 men died. Last month, Mujahid was reported as saying the Taliban had killed 40 resistance fighters and captured more than 100 in Panjshir. Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban-run government, was not immediately available for comment. He said he was unable to give further details as the investigation is ongoing. "At the time of their execution, the detained were bound, posing no threat to their Taliban captors."Įnayatullah Khawarazmi, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the defense minister, said a delegation is investigating the videos released on social media. "Using open-source techniques we have established the facts around the summary and systematic execution of a group of men in the Panjshir Valley in mid-September," Osborn said. These were cross-referenced with other videos suspected to feature the group. Videos and photos of Taliban fighters with the bodies aided geolocation and chrono-location, also providing close-ups of the fighters at the scene. It said it also confirmed 17 other extrajudicial killings from further images on social media, all showing dead men with their hands tied behind their backs. Since taking power in August 2021, the Taliban have imposed a tighter and harsher rule, even as they press for international recognition of their government.ĭavid Osborn, the team leader of Afghan Witness, said the report gives the "most clear-cut example" of the Taliban carrying out an "orchestrated purge" of resistance fighters.Īfghan Witness said it analyzed dozens of visual sources from social media mostly videos and photographs to conclusively link one group of Taliban fighters to the killings of 10 men in the Dara District of Panjshir, including the five seen being mowed down in the video. The investigation by Afghan Witness, an open-source project run by the UK-based non-profit Center for Information Resilience, is a rare verification of allegations that the Taliban have used brutal methods against opposition forces and their supporters, its researchers said.
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