Image Credit: AFP Afghanistan’s Badakhshan region experienced a 4.5 magnitude earthquake on Sunday, 22 December 2024. The tremor, which occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers, is one of several recent quakes in the disaster-prone region. Economic Times Archived Link According to the UNOCHA, over 275,000 people have been affected by earthquakes in Afghanistan in […]
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Armed attacks were carried out by the Afghanistan Freedom Front on the Taliban forces in the 9th and 4th districts of Kabul city on November 27. These attacks took place at Kabul Airport road and Salim Karwan area of Kabul city, killing 6 Taliban forces and injuring 3. Following these events, a number of social […]
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A number of media outlets have published a report regarding the marriage of an elderly Taliban official with a teenage girl on July, 2. Based on published reports, Zainul Abdin, the Taliban governor of Laghman province, has married an 18 year old girl by paying 2 million and 285 thousand Afghanis and one piece of […]
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On Thursday, June 8, 2023, an explosion occurred at the funeral ceremony of Mawlavi Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of the Taliban, at the Nabawi Mosque in Faizabad, Badakhshan. As a result, 13 people lost their lives, while 30 others sustained injuries. The explosion took place before noon. Based on published reports, Safiullah Samim, […]
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The Ministry of National Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) has announced the death of one of the key commanders of the Afghanistan Freedom Front and seven other members of the Front on April 11, 2023. In this announcement, it is stated that as a result of the operations of the Taliban forces […]
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Hazara are one of the ethnic groups of Afghanistan and have been subjects of persecution in Afghanistan since decades. Till date Hazara community of Afghanistan faces discrimination and are subjected to severe human rights violations. Recently some images are being shared on social media along with the #StopHazaragenocide with context to the atrocities committed against […]
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Afghanistan is going through a huge political, economic and social transition since America announced full withdrawal of its troops after a 20-year long war and eventually the Taliban claimed power over the country. Ethnic minorities of Afghanistan have been facing atrocities and been oppressed for years. Recently an image is being shared on social media […]
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Along with a picture of a burning house some social media users claimed that the Taliban have set people’s houses on fire in Behsud district of Maidan Wardak province. The photo shared since Nov 8, is claimed to be of houses set on fire by Taliban in Behsud. You can see a tweet making this […]
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The Guardian and a number of other media have reported on October 12, 2022 that the Taliban killed an Afghan queer student. The victim is identified as Hamed Sabouri, a medical student. The media reported that Hamed Sabouri was arrested at a Taliban checkpoint in August this year. According to published reports, this queer student […]
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After the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban on 15 August 2021, there has been huge criticism by international media and human rights organizations against the Taliban government over human rights violations especially against minorities in the country. The recent attack in an educational center in Kabul has once again raised security concerns for the […]
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Ever since the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan, the lives of Afghans have changed for worse. Especially the lives of minorities and women in the country. The short lived period of limited freedom of Afghan women has now come to an end. One such woman was the first female commander in the Afghan Air Force, […]
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A video showing a man dangling on a Black Hawk Helicopter from Kandahar has gone viral and is creating a lot of sensation not only on social media but also on mainstream media. People started sharing this video claiming that it shows another example of cruelty Taliban is inflicting on the Afghans. However, when Fact […]
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An old image of a gold mine in Indonesia was shared on social media as the image of the Qara-Zaghn gold mine of Afghanistan. It was made viral on February.11.2021 by social media users who claimed that the gold mine is in the Baghlan province of Afghanistan. Claim: On February.11.2021, the Afghan social media users […]
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In Afghanistan, most of the social media users reported that Abdul Ghani Alipoor has been killed in a military operation. However, when we investigated about the viral claim, we found this news to be fake. Claim: On 19th February, the Afghan social media was abuzz with the news of death of Commander Abdul Ghani Alipoor […]
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A photo of a military operation from Helmand province of Afghanistan went viral as photo of a building gutted down by fire in Maidan-Wardak province of Afghanistan. Many news agencies and social media users published it as the burned building in Behsud District of Maidan-Wardak. Let’s see the posts that made the claim in detail […]
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