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Afghanistan

Unidentified gunmen kill 12 in Afghanistan’s Baghlan: Sources

2024-11-23

[KhaamaPress] Sources have reported that 12 people bit the dust in a shooting carried out by unidentified armed assailants in Nahrin District, Baghlan Province.

According to these sources, the incident occurred last night in Ziarat Shahr Kohna, located in Nahrin District. The attack has caused significant concern among the local population, who are already grappling with ongoing insecurity.

These individuals were reportedly at the Sayed Padshah Shrine in the old city of Nahrin, "engaged in prayer when they were killed."

Images on social media show the bodies of the victims inside what is described as a shrine.

It remains unclear who—whether an individual or group—was responsible for carrying out this attack.

Incidents like the Nahrin attack reflect a disturbing trend of increasing violence against civilians in Afghanistan. Amid the fragile security situation, such attacks leave communities in a state of constant fear and vulnerability.

Tolo News adds:

Sher Ahmad Burhani, the spokesperson for the Baghlan security command, stated: "Last night, unidentified individuals attacked a mosque in Shahr-e-Kohna of Nahrin district in Baghlan province. In this mysterious attack, ten residents of Nahrin, who were engaged in worship at the mosque, were martyred. It should be noted that these individuals spent their days working to earn a livelihood and came to the mosque and khanqah for worship at night when they were attacked."

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International-UN-NGOs

Top UN court rejects Iranian bid to unfreeze $2 billion held by US

2023-03-31

[IsraelTimes] The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
’ top court has rejected Tehran’s legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian central bank assets frozen by US authorities to be paid in compensation to victims of a 1983 bombing in Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and other attacks linked to Iran.

In a 10-5 majority ruling, the International Court of Justice says it doesn’t have jurisdiction to rule on the Iranian claim linked to the central Markazi Bank.

In a complex, 67-page judgment, the world court finds that some other US moves to seize assets of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Iranians in the United States breached a 1955 treaty between the countries and say they should negotiate compensation. If they fail to reach a number, they will have to return to the Hague-based court for a ruling.

But the largest part of the case focused on Bank Markazi, and its frozen assets of $1.75 billion in bonds, plus accumulated interest, that are held in a Citibank account in New York. The court says that it doesn’t have jurisdiction based on the 1955 Treaty of Amity.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran sentences five to hang over protest-linked killing

2022-12-07

[Rudaw] Iran sentenced five people to hang for killing a paramilitary member, the judiciary said Tuesday, a ruling condemned by rights activists as a means to "spread fear" and stop protests over Mahsa Amini's death.

Another 11 people, including three children, were handed long jail terms over the murder, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi told a news conference, adding the sentences could be appealed.

Prosecutors said paramilitary member Ruhollah Ajamian, 27, was stripped naked and killed by a group of mourners who had been paying tribute to a slain protester, Hadis Najafi.
wanna bet he was threatening them?
Najafi was killed on September 21, five days into the wave of protests that erupted across Iran after the death of Amini, following her arrest by the morality police for an alleged breach of the country's hijab dress code for women.

Iran has struggled to quell the largely peaceful protests.

In a surprise move, Iran's prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was Sunday quoted as saying that the morality police units –- known formally as Gasht-e Ershad ("Guidance Patrol") -- had been closed down.

But his comments have yet to be followed up by an official announcement and have drawn widespread scepticism.

Ajamian had died on November 3 in Karaj, west of Tehran, after being attacked with "knives, stones, fists, kicks" and being dragged along a street, said the judiciary spokesman.

He belonged to the Basij, a state-sanctioned volunteer force that is linked to Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

- PROTESTERS AGAIN DEFY CRACKDOWN -
The five sentenced to death were convicted of "corruption on earth" -- one of the most serious offences under Islamic sharia law in Iran.

The other 11, including a woman, were convicted for "their role in the riots" and received lengthy prison terms, said Setayeshi.

The rulings bring to 11 the number of people sentenced to death over the protests.

They were condemned by Norway-based non-governmental organisation Iran Human Rights.

"These people are sentenced after unfair processes and without due process," IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam told AFP. "The aim is to spread fear and make people stop protesting."

Despite a crackdown that has killed hundreds, images posted online showed shops closed in cities across the country on Tuesday, the second day of a strike that culminates Wednesday on Student Day.

"Freedom, freedom, freedom," dozens of students from Tehran's Allameh Tabatabai University were heard chanting in a video published by IHR.

At least 448 people have been "killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests", the Oslo-based rights group said in its latest toll issued on November 29.

Iran, which accuses the United States and its allies Britain and Israel of fomenting the rest, said on Saturday that more than 200 people have been killed since the protests began. A general had put the figure at more than 300 last week.

- CAMPAIGN OF ARRESTS -
Iran currently executes more people annually than any nation other than China, Amnesty International says.

The London-based rights group said on November 16 that, based on official reports, at least 21 protesters had been charged with crimes that could see them hanged in what it called "sham trials".

The crackdown has also seen thousands of people arrested, including 40 foreigners and prominent actors, journalists and lawyers.

Among them are a dozen alleged members of an unnamed European-linked group accused of planning acts of sabotage.

The Revolutionary Guards in Markazi province, southwest of Tehran, said Tuesday they had arrested "a network with 12 members with links abroad".

They had been "under the guidance of counter-revolutionary agents living in Germany and the Netherlands" and had "attempted to procure weapons and intended to carry out subversive acts".

The Guards, referring to the nationwide protests, said that the "riots project has failed".

It warned acts of sabotage would continue, however, and appealed for the "vigilance of loyal people... especially shopkeepers, students and workers" to foil them.

Iranian lawmaker Hossein Jalali called on the authorities to send women who fail to observe hijab text messages threatening to block their bank accounts, Shargh newspaper said.

Meanwhile police in Britain said a fire broke out overnight next to the London office of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) opposition group. There was no evidence so far that it was a deliberate attack.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran issues first death sentence related to anti-government protests

2022-11-14

[IsraelTimes] Tehran court says the accused committed serious felonies, including ’setting fire to a government building’ and ’conspiracy to commit a crime against national security’

Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
on Sunday issued its first death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
linked to participation in "riots," amid nationwide protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.

The accused was sentenced in a Tehran court to death for the crime of "setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and an enemy of God and corruption on earth," one of the most serious offenses under Iranian law, Mizan Online reported.

Another court in Tehran sentenced five others to prison terms of between five to 10 years for "gathering and conspiring to commit crimes against national security and disturbing public order."

All those convicted can appeal their sentence, Mizan added.
For all the good that'll do...
Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators but also security personnel, have been killed during the protests, which the authorities have branded as "riots."

Earlier on Sunday, the judiciary said it had charged more than 750 people in three provinces for involvement in such incidents.

More than 2,000 people had already been charged, nearly half of them in the capital Tehran, since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to judiciary figures.

Judicial chief for the southern province of Hormozgan, Mojtaba Ghahremani, said 164 people had been charged "after the recent riots," Mizan Online earlier said.

They face accusations including "incitement to killing," "harming security forces," "propaganda against the regime" and "damaging public property," the website said, adding that their trials would begin "from Thursday in the presence of their lawyers."

Another 276 people were charged in the central province of Markazi, its judiciary chief Abdol-Mehdi Mousavi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
100 young people were released after signing pledges not to participate in any future "riots," IRNA said.

In central Isfahan province, judicial chief Asadollah Jafari said 316 cases had been filed in connection with the recent strife.

Twelve have already gone to trial, the Tasnim news agency reported him as saying late Saturday.

Amini’s death on\ September 16 came days after her arrest by the morality police for an alleged breach of the country’s strict dress rules for women.

Authorities have denied claims by rights groups abroad that about 15,000 people have been detained in the ensuing unrest.

Iran on Sunday criticized a Friday meeting between French president Emmanuel Macron and opponents of the Islamic republic, calling Emmanuel Macron’s comments after the encounter "regrettable and shameful."

Macron met with four prominent Iranian dissidents, all of them women.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian politician says Israel ‘freely runs its operations’ in Tehran

2022-07-21

One man’s opinion. It’s true, of course, but even so.

[IsraelTimes] After series of attacks attributed to Israel, unnamed officials suggest ’the highest levels of the Iranian establishment’ are shaken.

An Iranian politician indicated that many in his country feel Israel is operating freely in Tehran and targeting security operations with ease.

In a report published Tuesday in the UK-based Financial Times, an official cited only as a "reformist politician" was quoted as saying that "it feels as if Israel has established a large-scale organization in Tehran and freely runs its operations."

The politician added: "Israel is clearly targeting Iran’s ’highly secure’ image to tarnish its greatness in people’s eyes."

A series of liquidations and attacks in Iran

...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
have been attributed to Israel in recent months, though Jerusalem rarely if ever publicly takes credit for such operations. But in a rare interview last week — and rarer yet comments on Israeli activity in enemy countries — National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata said Israel had "acted quite a lot in Iran over the past year."

Tensions between Israel and Iran have intensified in recent months, after the liquidation of a top Iranian officer in Tehran, a number of other mysterious deaths of security personnel inside Iran, ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against Iran-linked targets in Syria, threatening rhetoric from Iranian leaders and Iran’s increasing violation of nuclear agreements.

The most serious blow to Tehran came in May, when Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, 50, was killed outside his home in the east of the Iranian capital by attackers on cycle of violence

s who shot him five times.

Then last month, Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh, a commander of the IRGC’s external operations unit, the Quds Force, died "in an accident in his home," according to state news agency IRNA. Shortly afterward, Ali Kamani, a member of the Guard’s aerospace division, was killed while on a mission in Khomein in the central province of Markazi, the IRGC said.

The Financial Times report noted a feeling of "anxiety at the highest levels of the Iranian establishment" over the series of Israeli-attributed attacks. In late June, the IRGC replaced its longtime intelligence chief in a move seen by many as a reaction to the suspected liquidations.

Nevertheless, Iranian officials told the UK newspaper that they are not looking to directly escalate tensions at the moment.

"Iran’s policy remains to work with its proxy forces and we will not initiate any attacks against Israel if Israel doesn’t attack ~~Lebanon~~ Hezbollahstan
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
," a "regime insider" was quoted as saying. "It’s not wise for us to fight with Israel. And Zionists also show teeth to attack but their teeth are not sharp enough to go as far as striking Iran."

In a similar report in The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
late last month, Iranian officials told the newspaper that Israel’s operations have had drastic and long-lasting effects.

"The security breaches inside Iran and the vast scope of operations by Israel have really undermined our most powerful intelligence organization," said former Iranian vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi.

Unnamed Iranian officials also said at the time that "Israel’s spy network has infiltrated deep into the rank and file of Iran’s security circles."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran replaces Revolutionary Guards' intelligence chief amid recent deaths of officers

2022-06-25

More on this story from yesterday.

[SHAFAQ] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday replaced its intelligence chief Hossein Taeb, who had held the position for more than 12 years, the Guards said in a statement.

“The Guards’ chief Major General Hossein Salami appointed General Mohammad Kazemi as the new head of the IRGC Intelligence Organisation,” Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif said in the statement.

Salami also appointed Taeb, who is a cleric, as his own adviser, according to the statement.

Ha ha! That’ll fool those Zionazi juices, for sure!

The replacement of the intelligence chief comes after the killing of a number of members of the Guards, which is designated as a terrorist group by Iran’s arch enemy the United States.

Iran and US ally Israel have been engaged in a years-long shadow war but tensions have ratcheted up following a string of high-profile incidents Tehran has blamed on the Jewish state.

On June 13, Ali Kamani, a member of the Guards’ aerospace division, was killed while on a mission in Khomein in the central province of Markazi, the Guards said in a statement without elaborating.

Earlier in June, Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh, a commander of the Guards’ external operations unit, the Quds Force, died “in an accident in his home”, according to state news agency IRNA.

And on May 22, Guards Colonel Sayyad Khodai, 50, was killed outside his home in the east of the Iranian capital by attackers on motorbikes who shot him five times.

State television in Iran said Khodai was a member of the Quds Force and that he was “known” in Syria, where Iran has acknowledged deploying “military advisers”.

The Guards described Khodai as a “defender of the sanctuary”, a term used for those who work on behalf of the Islamic republic in Syria or Iraq.

The Guards accused “Zionists” of being behind the assassination and vowed revenge.

Israel urges its citizens to leave Turkey after arrests

Israel last week urged its citizens to leave Turkey immediately because of “possible” threats from Iranian operatives.

Media outlets in Turkey on Thursday reported the arrest of eight people allegedly working for an Iranian intelligence cell that planned to kill Israeli tourists in Istanbul.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran says 2 military aerospace officials killed in country

2022-06-14

[An Nahar] Two Iranian aerospace officials have been "martyred while on mission" in separate incidents inside the country, the armed forces said Monday.

Ali Kamani, a member of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was "martyred" in Khomein in central Markazi province on Sunday, Fars news agency said quoting a Guards statement.

Elsewhere, "Mohammad Abdoos, an employee of the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, was martyred on Sunday evening during a mission" in the northern Semnan province, the ministry said in a statement.

Fars earlier said Abdoos, 33, was also working in the field of aerospace -- which in Iran
Iran

...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
produces equipment ranging from military aircraft to missiles and drones.

No further details were given on the men or how they died.

Iran has in the past blamed its arch enemy Israel for a series of killings of military figures and nuclear technology experts.

On May 22, Guards Colonel Sayyad Khodai, 50, was killed outside his home in the east of the Iranian capital by attackers on cycle of violence

s who shot him five times.

The Guards accused "Zionists" of being behind the high-profile liquidation and vowed Dire Revenge.

The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
later reported that Israel had told its close ally the United States that the Jewish state was behind the killing of Khodai.

The US daily cited an anonymous "intelligence official briefed on the communications".

Iran's state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
has said that Khodai was a member of the Quds Force and that he was "known" in Syria, where Iran has acknowledged deploying "military advisers".

The Guards described Khodai as a "defender of the sanctuary", a term used for those who work on behalf of Tehran in Syria or Iraq.

Iran believes Israel killed 2 scientists by poisoning their food — report

[IsraelTimes] The New York Times says Iranian officials suspect Israel targeted engineer Ayoob Entezari, geologist Kamran Aghamolaei, who died under similar circumstances several weeks ago.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran to Launch Arak Nuclear Research Reactor 'Within Year'

2021-10-05

[AnNahar] An Iranian nuclear reactor being converted from heavy water production into a power generating research facility will be launched within a year, a front man for parliament's energy commission announced.

Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and world powers, the Islamic republic shut down the original Arak reactor in Markazi province so that it could not produce military-grade plutonium.

It also pledged that a replacement of the original reactor with a new one would support "peaceful nuclear research".

Quoted on Sunday by the Fars news agency, Mustafa Nakhai, front man of the legislature's energy commission, said "the Arak IR-20 reactor will be launched in a year from now".

Nakhai said he was in turn quoting Mohammed Eslami, newly-appointed to head the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI).

He also quoted Eslami as saying the new IR-20 reactor at Arak will feed into the generation of a planned 8,000 MW of nuclear power, to be achieved by the construction of additional reactors, state news agency IRNA reported.

Nuclear chief Eslami also said in mid-September during a site visit to Arak that Iran wanted to establish the long-planned research facility "as quickly as possible".

The AEOI had said early this year that it would cold test the new reactor in the first three months of the Iranian year, which began on March 21.

The 2015 nuclear deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for tight controls on its nuclear program, monitored by the UN.

Tehran has gradually rolled back its nuclear commitments since 2019, a year after then US president Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
withdrew from the multilateral deal and began re-imposing sanctions.

Talks began in April in Vienna in a bid to bring the US back inside the deal, but the dialogue has been stalled since June, when ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected as Iran's president.

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Afghanistan

Afghans Will Never Allow Taliban to Achieve Its Goals: Mohammadi

2021-07-18

[ToloNews] Acting Minister of Defense Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi on Saturday said that the Afghan people and the government will not allow the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
to takeover the country through military pressure.

He said that losing territory during the war is a natural phenomenon, but territory never determines the fate of the conflict.

"The Taliban will not reach to their goals through violence. They only add to the pain and suffering of our people. But they will not reach to their evil goal. We are fully committed to defend Afghanistan," said Mohammadi.

Mohammadi made the remarks during the graduation ceremony of 135 Afghan Special Force members in Kabul. The new officers will soon be deployed to the frontlines.

Congratulations, gentlemen, and happy hunting. Goodness knows your prey is plentiful these days.

"We will not allow anyone to rule our country and soil until we are alive," said a newly Special Force graduate Sayed Tawala.

"The Afghan people must be assured," said Sakina, a Special Force officer.

The graduation comes at a time that the Taliban have taken over 200 districts in the past two months.

"Losing territory or a geography during war is a normal thing. Everyone knows that territory is being exchanged during the war, but it does not determine the main thing," said Mohammadi.

"We will defend till last drop our blood and will not permit the enemy to get to its evil objective," said Khaled Amiri, the commander of Special Forces of the Afghan National Army (ANA).

Violence dramatically increased in Afghanistan following the US announcement of withdrawing its forces from the country by August 31st.

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Afghanistan

ANDSF Breaks Taliban Siege in Northern City

2021-06-27

[ToloNews] Supported by the public uprising forces, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) on Saturday broke the Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
’s siege on the outskirts of Pul-e-Khumri, the center of Baghlan province in the north, and managed to retake District 2 of the city where the two sides had fought some of the fiercest battles in the last seven days.

Some residents said Taliban still has presence in Band-e-Do and Blakha areas in the city.

Security forces on Friday retook the control of Khinjan and Doshi districts in Baghlan, but some residents said the Taliban still has check points on the way connected to Doshi and Khinjan districts.

Kelagai area has been another flashpoint between the security forces and the Taliban in the past few days. The Taliban made several attempts to infiltrate inside the city through Kelagai.

"When we arrived here, the Taliban defeated and fled the area," said Noor Agha, an Afghan National Army officer in Pul-e-Khumri.

"Three to four thousand people from Andar Abad and some others from Parwan and Kapisa came here. Although the bully boyz shown some resistance, but they were suppressed," said MP Nasim Mudabir.

Baghlan-e-Markazi, Dahana-e-Ghori, Tala Wa Barfak, Nahrin, Borka, Jolga, Khost and Guzargah-e-Noor are among the eight districts in Baghlan that have been out of the control of the government.

"We are now on the frontline. The enemy is on the other side," said Bahramuddin, the deputy commander of special forces in Baghlan.

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Afghanistan

ANDSF Recaptures Three Districts in North as War Intensifies

2021-06-23

[ToloNews] The Afghan government on Tuesday said that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) recaptured three strategic districts from the Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
: Balkh district in Balkh, Dushi district in Baghlan and Ali Abad district in Kunduz.

However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
local sources said that over the past 24 hours the Taliban has captured several districts from the ANDSF in the country.

The districts which fell to the Taliban are Gul Tapa, Ali Abad and Chahardara districts in Kunduz, Baghlan-e-Markazi and Nahrain districts in Baghlan, Khamab and Qarqin districts in Jawzjan, Jaghato in Maidan Wardak, Lajmangal and Ahmadkhel in Paktia, Shajoy in Zabul, Maiwand in Kandahar and Choora in Uruzgan.

In the northern part of the country, fighting continues in these quiet provincial capitals: Kunduz city in Kunduz, Maimana in Faryab, Taluqan in Takhar, Pul-e-Khumri in Baghlan and Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
city in Sar-e-Pul.

Local sources said that the war has now reached the outskirts of Kunduz city. They said that the security forces have also withdrawn from the Sher Khan Bandar port area, which borders Tajikistan.

With the fall of 13 district centers in the past 24 hours, the total number of centers taken by the Taliban in the past two months is 70.

"Currently the war is raging in Sher Khan Bandar, we do have sufficient weaponry in Kunduz," said Baseera Rasouli, an MP from Kunduz.

"Kunduz is under attack from three or four directions, the situation is distressing, the shops are locked," said Imamuddin, a resident in Kunduz.

The fighting in Kunduz is displacing people.

"We have been destroyed, there is no way to go to Kabul or other areas," said Ainuddin, a resident of Kunduz city.

"Special operation units have changed and are in control of the situation, we are now at the frontline," said Mohammad Ali Yazadani, the commander of Special Operation Corps.

According to reports, fighting is also underway between the ANDSF and the Taliban in suburbs of Pul-e-Khumri city.

"Pul-e-Khumri city will not fall, at any cost. The people should carry on their business and duties with a peaceful mind," said Safiullah Mazlom, the head of the Baghlan security department.

Fighting was also reported in the city of Maimana in Faryab and Taluqan in Takhar.

"If the central government does not concentrate, we will witness a human tragedy and human catastrophe," said Lotfullah, a resident in Takhar province.

"Faryab is on the verge of collapse, the people of Faryab are very concerned," said Darwish, a resident in Faryab.

"If the central government does not take action, we will lose Samkanai, Janikhel and all of Paktia," said Taj Mohammad Mangal, a member of Paktia's provincial council.

"All problems will be resolved very soon," said Ajmal Omar Shinwari, a front man for the ANDSF.

With the fall of 13 district centers in the past 24 hours, the total number of centers taken by the Taliban in the past two months is 70.

...out of a total of 421.
Khaama Press adds:

Dushi is a key and strategic territory within Baghlan province that connects nine provinces in the north and north-east with the capital and central provinces of Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan

4 Killed in Taliban’s Car Bomb Attack on Police HQ in Baghlan

2021-06-02

[ToloNews] Four security force members were killed in a car kaboom by the Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
on the police headquarters in Baghlan-e-Markazi district in the northern province of Baghlan on Monday evening, officials said Tuesday.

The attack took place at around 6:30 pm local time when a Humvee loaded with explosives exploded near the police headquarters in the district, Baghlan police said in a statement.

The district police chief and some coppers were maimed in the attack, a security official, who wished not to be named, said.

According to the official, the attack was followed by a shootout by some attackers who entered the police headquarters. But special forces shortly after the attack said the situation "was under their control."

Some civilian homes in the area were damaged in the attack, an army commander Farid Sayed Khili said.

"The explosion was huge and damaged civilian homes even 500 meters away. It caused financial damages to the people," Sayed Khili said.

He said that security forces pushed back the Taliban attack following the earth-shattering kaboom.

The Army commander said that Taliban conducted at least three simultaneous attacks in different parts of the district in which "15 of them were killed and maimed."

Taliban claimed responsibly for the attack.

Baghlan has been faced with heavy festivities between government forces and the Taliban over the last four weeks. Baghlan-e-Markazi has witnessed most of the festivities during this time.

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