Two days ago, the Taliban border guards had another clash with the Pakistani forces in the same area.

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Local sources in Takhar province report that armed nomadic Gujar tribes supported by the Taliban have clashed with local residents in Farkhar district over grazing land.

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'The sheer volume of money being pumped into the country, paired with the challenges of vetting contractors and subcontractors, created a system that was ripe for exploitation.'

Our founder Zaki Daryabi and co-authors explain in this OCCRP special report:

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'Perhaps overwhelmed by the Taliban’s erasure of women from public life, many forget that the golden era of Islamic civilization in Herat was made possible under the Timurid queen Gawhar Shad Begum, who harvested her power in the patronage of art.'
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When the Taliban barred women from work and education during their previous stint in power in the 1990s, the country had no way to cope. Two decades later, Afghanistan’s experience with Taliban oppression of women is different.

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The Taliban Supreme Court announced that a man and a woman were publicly flogged in Ghazni

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Sources in Kabul say that the Taliban forces have shot and killed four young men at a checkpoint yesterday, May 13.

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Australian courts have convicted David McBride, the former army lawyer, with ‘stealing’ and ‘leaking’ classified information.

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Fahid Abdullah Aldosari, head of Qatar’s search and rescue team, who arrived in Balkh today, May 13, said that a shipment of humanitarian aid from his country was delivered by a military aircraft.
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Local sources in Takhar report that Taliban intelligence in the province has detained two former personnel of the previous government’s national directorate of security.

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that 180 people have died as a result of the recent devastating floods in Baghlan province.
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Reports show that the Taliban opened fire today at civilians who had gathered in poppy fields to protest the regime’s destruction of the harvest.  At least three were killed and 13 more sustained injuries in Argo district.
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The World Food Program (WFP) reports that three million children in Afghanistan are malnourished, highlighting that it can only support one in every three of them.

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The Afghanistan Journalist Center (AFJC) has criticized the Taliban’s imposition of restrictions on the London-based Afghanistan International TV and Radio, saying that it goes against Afghanistan’s media laws.

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The US Central Command (CENTCOM) Chief, General Michael Erik Kurilla, has visited Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, discussing counter-terrorism operations with the Pakistani military.

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Members of the US Congress seek clarification from the Biden Administration regarding the discrepancies between CNN and Pentagon reports on the 2021 Kabul airport attack, which killed 13 US service members and 170 Afghan citizens.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported an increase in suspected measles cases in Afghanistan over the last two weeks compared to the figures reported last year.

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The Afghanistan Journalist Center (AFJC) reports that the Taliban have released Ramin Amiri, the head of Solh TV, a private channel in Herat province, after 48 days of detention.

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The local branch of Islamic State, IS-KP, has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Taliban convoy in northeastern Badakhshan province, saying it killed and injured at least 12 Taliban members.

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Local sources in northern Faryab province have reported that members of the Taliban gunned down a former local police officer affiliated with the previous government in the province.

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