Unidentified gunmen assassinated Qari Mohammad Dawezi, most important field commander in the city of Sharan located in the center of Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan.
Ringleaders of the Pakistani Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) group, including senior commanders of the JuA such as Qari Imran Orakzai and Atif Mohmand, were targeted by unidentified individuals with a homemade bomb in one of the border areas of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.
A border confrontation between the Taliban and Pakistani border forces at the Angur Ada border crossing in Barmal district has left six Taliban forces, including a field commander, as well as five Pakistani soldiers killed and injured.
A group of Pakistani migrants have raided on the village of Nawabad in Khwaja Bahauddin district of Takhar province, engaging in clashes with the residents in a bid to seize their houses and lands.
ISWNews Analysis Group – The Taliban caretaker government in Afghanistan is implementing a plan to transfer thousands of militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group to the northern regions of the country.
Since the onset of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban-affiliated militants have conducted 26 clashes with Afghanistan neighbors. The armed conflicts have resulted in the death and injury of dozens of civilians as well as border guards from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other neighboring countries.
ISWNews Analysis Group – In consequence of the Tuesday attacks by terrorists of the ISIS group on the Taliban in Faizabad town, several local officials of the Taliban, including Molavi Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, Molavi Safiullah and Qari Ehsanullah were killed and several others were wounded.
Taliban militants prevented the construction of border walls by Iran in the past days and this issue increased the tension and eventually led to a conflict. Although the Taliban officials said that “they do not want a conflict with Iran”, their media figures continue to insult and attack Iran in social media.
ISWNews Analysis Group – During a border conflict between Iran and the Taliban in Sistan and Baluchistan province on May 27, one Iranian border guard was martyred and two others were wounded.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian has explained Tehran’s position on Afghanistan, saying that the Islamic Republic does not recognize the Taliban caretaker government in Afghanistan and only supports the formation of an inclusive government in the neighboring country.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Militants affiliated to Afghanistan’s Taliban caretaker government and Iran’s border guards fought on the outskirts of some villages in eastern areas of the city of Zabol in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran and exchanged fire.
Iran’s water rights from the Hirmand River is an issue that has been a source of dispute with different governments in Afghanistan for years. Violation of water rights has led to environmental damage in the three countries of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and can turn into a more serious crisis.
