One of the Taliban commanders joined Ahmad Massoud’s forces
ISWNews Analysis Group: Qari Waqas, commander of the Taliban Red Unit in Tagab district, Badakhshan province, joined Ahmad Massoud’s forces, along with 300 forces under his command.

ISWNews Analysis Group: Qari Waqas, commander of the Taliban Red Unit in Tagab district, Badakhshan province, joined Ahmad Massoud’s forces, along with 300 forces under his command.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Taliban officials have threatened to crack down on Mullah “Mehdi Mojahed”, a Hazara commander who defected from the group.
ISWNews Analysis Group: 12 people, including a Taliban militant, were killed and wounded in an ISIS terrorist attack on an Afghan Hindu religious ceremony in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
ISWNews Analysis Group: A terrorist blast at a mosque in the northern district of Imam Sahib in Kunduz province has killed and wounded 42 civilians.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Turkish government deported more than 1,300 Afghan refugees from the country.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Pakistani government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), mediated by the Afghan Taliban, began negotiations for an indefinite ceasefire and an end to the war.
ISWNews Analysis Group: On May 12, Iranian and Taliban law enforcement officials held a meeting to strengthen co-operation and co-ordination to establish security along the common border.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Following verbal tensions between Taliban militants and Tajik border guards, the two sides engaged in armed” clashes for hours.
ISWNews Analysis Group: As a result of the terrorist explosion in the Khaniqah Khalifa Sahib, located in the sixth district of Kabul, more than 100 people were martyred and wounded.
ISWNews Analysis Group: More than 20 civilians were killed and wounded in two terrorist explosions in the Shiite areas of Mazar-e-Sharif.
ISWNews Analysis Group: More than 70 civilians were killed and wounded in a terrorist attack on a mosque in the district of Imam Sahib in northern Kunduz province.
ISWNews Analysis Group: As a result of several terrorist explosions in the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunduz and Khogyani, more than 81 people were martyred and injured.