Badakhshan Province (Persian بدخشان, Badaxšān) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. (wikipedia.org)
Resistance activity has been reported in the province since the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (wikipedia.org)
However, during the course of the wars a non-Taliban Islamic emirate was established in Badakhshan by Mawlawi Shariqi, paralleling the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan in neighboring Nuristan. (wikipedia.org)
Despite the rich potential of the Argo District in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, no studies have attempted to study its medicinal plant diversity. (istanbul.edu.tr)
Sharing a long border with Afghanistan, Gorno-Badakhshan also is a well-known drug-trafficking route, and turf wars are hard to rule out. (eurasianet.org)
Moscow, Mar 30 (Sputnik) The Taliban militants captured late on Friday the Arghanj Khwa district of the Badakhshan province in northwestern Afghanistan, local media reported Saturday citing an official. (indiablooms.com)
Kabul, Aug 3 (IBNS): At least 27 Taliban insurgents, including three key leaders, were killed in an encounter in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, reports said. (indiablooms.com)
2 Villagers displaced by the recent deadly landslide receive their lunch in the Argo district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. (voanews.com)
In recent years, the Taliban have deliberately moved to secure control over regions of Afghanistan rich in mineral deposits, from lapis lazuli mines in northern Badakhshan to gold, lead, and zinc in Helmand and vast talc and marble deposits in southern Nangarhar. (foreignpolicy.com)
Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan borders six countries and is dominated by the imposing Hindu Kush range, which towers here (upper left) over Kapisa Province. (nationalgeographic.com)
Afghanistan has seen an uptick in violence over the past week, with the Taliban launching attacks in several provinces even as negotiators from the armed group and the Afghan government are still in Qatar's capital for talks aimed at bringing peace to the country. (aljazeera.com)
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has reshuffled officials in five provinces on the basis of decree. (afghanislamicpress.com)
Since April this year, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Afghan affiliate of the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has carried out rocket attacks in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan from its bases in northern Afghanistan. (cacianalyst.org)
Through frequency ratio and MaxEnt modeling, flood sensitivity was determined in the Amu Darya River Basin in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (lu.se)
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Badakhshan was the only province that the Taliban did not conquer during their rule from 1996 to 2001. (wikipedia.org)
Rabbani, a Badakhshan native, and Massoud were the last remnants of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance during the peak of Taliban control in 2001. (wikipedia.org)
Badakhshan was thus one of the few provinces of the country that witnessed little insurgency in the Afghan wars - however, during the 2010s Taliban insurgents managed to attack and take control of several districts in the province. (wikipedia.org)
A total of 15 militants including a Taliban key commander have handed over their weapons to security forces in the northern Badakhshan province, provincial government spokesman Nik Mohammad Nazari said on Sunday. (warsintheworld.com)
Without providing more details, the official who described Mullah Ashor as the second in command of the Taliban fighters in Badakhshan province, said the security situation in Badakhshan would improve from now on after commander Ashor's surrender. (warsintheworld.com)
Both the Taliban and rival militants from a branch of the so-called Islamic State are active in Nangarhar Province, which borders Pakistan, and regularly attack local officials and security forces. (rferl.org)
While the United States and the Taliban both oppose the Islamic State- Khorasan Province (ISKP)-which has conducted multiple terrorist attacks in the country in the last several years-this alone does not mean that Washington should rush to engage the Taliban or has much to gain by doing so. (cnas.org)
Kabul/UNI/Xinhua: Afghan forces regained control of Kuran-wa-Muntaj district in the northern Badakhshan province on Tuesday after days of fierce fighting, forcing the Taliban militants to retreat, an army officer in the province Abdul Razaq said. (indiablooms.com)
The Taliban and ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) used child soldiers as suicide bombers and to carry weapons. (state.gov)
Born in Badghis province, three years ago her family were displaced to Herat to escape increasing violence and fighting between the Taliban and the forces of the former Afghan government. (rawa.org)
Above, Afghan policemen sit on an armored vehicle at a checkpoint in Kandahar province on July 4 after the Taliban captured a key district in their former bastion of Kandahar. (newsweek.com)
The Afghan military exodus comes as the Taliban have overrun most districts in northeastern Badakhshan province. (newsweek.com)
Competition over mines among "pro-government" strongmen has turned parts of the country that staunchly resisted the Taliban - like Badakhshan province - into hotbeds of the insurgency. (globalwitness.org)
The gold mine in the Badakhshan province, meanwhile, is largely in the hands of the Taliban. (globalwitness.org)
The Taliban chief of the military, Fasihuddin Fitrat, denounced the IS attacks in Badakhshan and asked people to cooperate with Taliban security forces and report suspicious activities in their areas. (wtop.com)
A major Taliban assault last week on Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern Helmand province, sparked days of intense fighting and prompted the United States to launch air attacks in support of its allied government forces. (aljazeera.com)
Besides Helmand, the Taliban in recent days has also carried out attacks in Badakhshan, Kunduz, Farah and Kandahar provinces. (aljazeera.com)
The Taliban controls most of Helmand province and in recent years has conducted several attacks to capture Lashkar Gah - but its fighters have been pushed back by Afghan security forces each time. (aljazeera.com)
The Lashkar-e Mansouri cell in Badakhshan was established "to repel possible attacks against Taliban units," the official state Bakhtar News Agency reported. (vijayvaani.com)
Taliban officials said they have sent "thousands" of their troops into Afghanistan's Takhar province, which borders Tajikistan's Khatlon Region. (vijayvaani.com)
In mid-September, the Taliban announced that those troops had entered Badakhshan province. (vijayvaani.com)
A German national was also recently arrested with the Taliban in the restive southern province of Helmand, Afghan officials said last week. (schema-root.org)
A Taliban-affiliated group, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Tajikistan is reportedly in charge of the security of five districts in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. (cacianalyst.org)
It has in its crosshairs the anti-Taliban resistance based in Tajikistan, the secular Tajik government and the Islamic State-Khorasan Province. (cacianalyst.org)
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Xinhua) - Afghan security forces have killed four insurgents in Tagab district of northern Badakhshan province, Qari Maazudin Ahmadi, head of the provincial information and culture department, said Tuesday. (pressadda.com)
His son, Hafiz Abdul Rahman, killed himself in a suicide attack against Afghan forces in Helmand province in 2017. (floppingaces.net)
Afghan villagers gather at the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province, May 4, 2014. (voanews.com)
A view of a mostly deserted lapis lazuli mining encampment in the Afghan province of Badakhshan on Oct. 16, 2016. (foreignpolicy.com)
The speaker asks permission from his superior to "start searching from Kandahar and Badakhshan provinces" for Afghan allies stranded in the country. (theepochtimes.com)
Most of the 7,000'ers lie in northern Pakistan and the Afghan provinces of Nuristan and Badakhshan. (explorersweb.com)
Barring an escalation of the situation on the Badakhshan section of the Tajik-Afghan border, the Tajik security forces went on heightened alert. (vijayvaani.com)
It has been reported that French and Algerian fighters, some arriving from Syria, had joined the group's Afghan franchise in the restive province. (schema-root.org)
AFP recently reported that French and Algerian fighters, some arriving from Syria, had joined IS in the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan. (schema-root.org)
Afghan forces have launched large-scale military operations in three districts of north-eastern Badakhshan province early Thursday morning to clear three districts of militants, local officials said. (tolonews.com)
Gorno-Badakhsh4
Badakhshan is bordered by Takhar Province to the west, Panjshir Province to the south west, Nuristan Province to the south, Tajikistan to the north and east (that nation's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province and Khatlon Province), China through a long spur called the Wakhan Corridor to the east, and Pakistan to the south-east (Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan). (wikipedia.org)
Despite being under house arrest, Ayombekov freely moves around Khorog in Tajikistan's mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province. (eurasianet.org)
Though he is accused of involvement in the high-profile July murder of a security services general, an incident that hastened violent clashes in remote Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, officials in Dushanbe are proceeding cautiously in their prosecution of Ayombekov. (eurasianet.org)
The group will visit Logar, Badakhshan, and Helmand provinces. (andmagazine.com)
Supervisory and managerial health staff of Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul provinces have attended a five day Medical Ethics training. (who.int)
Administrative OPV3 coverage (calculated by dividing the number of doses administered by the estimated target population) in 2017 ranged from 100% in the central provinces of Kapisa and Panjsher to 24% and 9% in the southern provinces of Helmand and Zabul, respectively. (cdc.gov)
Kandahar and Badakhshan1
Mufti Sahib, what is your order regarding those who had worked with the foreign forces, and should we start searching from Kandahar and Badakhshan provinces and also search for those who specifically worked with Americans as a spy and done a lot of things? (theepochtimes.com)
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The province contains 22 districts, over 1,200 villages and approximately 1 055 000 [1] people. (wikipedia.org)
In Badakhshan, it has spread across several districts in rainfed areas and, according to informal estimates, the cultivated area has doubled from official figures of 1,100 hectares (ha) in 2010 to around 2,200 ha. (humansecuritygateway.com)
The reconstruction of roads linking eight districts of north Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province has begun. (nepalnews.com)
Health service delivery in 4 districts of Nangarhar province continues to be affected by insecurity and threats made on health facility staff. (who.int)
Residents of five districts in northeastern Badakhshan province on Wednesday said they could die of starvation due to shortage of food stuffs if roads blocked by continued events of snow avalanches were not cleared. (rawa.org)
The operations were launched in Warduj, Yumgan and Keran Wa Manjan districts of the province. (tolonews.com)
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Fayzabad Airport serves the province with regular direct flights to Kabul. (wikipedia.org)
We are witnessing forced marriages in the provinces and Kabul. (rawa.org)
The government has recorded 41 deaths from freezing in three provinces - Kabul, Ghor and Badakhshan, said Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Sakhi Kargar. (sott.net)
The Badakhshan provincial governor's office later said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber and that "several of the seriously wounded were transferred by military helicopters to Kabul for further treatment. (wtop.com)
The report found girls in rural areas are the worst off - just under 10 per cent of girls in Balkh province attended a school with a building while three quarters of those living in Kabul did. (oxfam.org)
Officers and provincial technical managers in Malalai Training Centre, Kabul Province. (who.int)
Northeastern1
The northeastern mountainous province of Badakhshan that borders the neighbouring Tajikistan, Pakistan and China every year witnesses heavy snowfalls during the winter season. (rawa.org)
Tajikistan1
It is part of a broader historical Badakhshan region, parts of which now also lie in Tajikistan and China. (wikipedia.org)
Afghanistan's4
Like Russia, Turkey has reportedly closed in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, and Afghanistan's fourth-largest city. (newsweek.com)
The findings are based on a survey of more than 1,600 girls, parents and teachers in 17 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. (oxfam.org)
At the same time, cells of another terrorist group, Lashkar-e Mansouri (banned in Russia), which organizes suicide attacks, have been established in Fayzabad, the capital of Afghanistan's province of Badakhshan. (vijayvaani.com)
In a separate incident, six Islamic State militants, including two Uzbekistan citizens, were killed in a clash with the security forces in Afghanistan's Jowzjan province on Friday. (schema-root.org)
Balkh2
Opium poppy cultivation has re-emerged in Balkh and Badakhshan in 2011. (humansecuritygateway.com)
There has been fighting in Balkh province, but the provincial capital has been relatively peaceful. (newsweek.com)
Tagab1
ACTED and WPF have responded to 105 conflict IDPs in Tagab district in Badakhshan province. (who.int)
Tajikistan's2
It is bordered by Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistani regions of Lower and Upper Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan in the southeast. (wikipedia.org)
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Tajikistan's volatile eastern province of Gorno-Badakhshan on May 22, a day after deadly clashes in the regional capital Khorugh left several people dead. (rferl.org)
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Drought conditions and below-average cumulative precipitation in March and April damaged rainfed wheat in northern provinces during critical stages of crop development leading to severe crop losses in Herat, Zabul, Faryab, Badghis, and Sar-i-Pul Provinces. (fews.net)
High proportions of zero-dose children were reported in 2017 in Zabul (9%) and Kandahar (4%) provinces in the southern region, Kunar (8%) province in the eastern region, and Paktika (7%) province in the southeastern region. (cdc.gov)
Khorasan Province1
The IS regional affiliate - known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province - said at the time that it had carried out that attack. (wtop.com)
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protocol in 11 provinces since February 2018. (who.int)
Fayzabad1
Badakhshan University is located in Fayzabad, a city which also has a number of public schools including an all-girls school. (wikipedia.org)
Pakistan1
In contrast, in the highly insecure Khost province, on the border with Pakistan, just 3 per cent of teachers are female. (oxfam.org)
Officials2
On March 6, at least two people were killed and two others were injured when a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded in the province, officials said. (rferl.org)
The woman was captured during a military operation in the northern province of Jowzjan - an IS stronghold - on Thursday night, several officials said. (schema-root.org)
Authorities1
On Saturday, authorities in the remote Badakhshan province village of Aab Bareek recovered only two bodies. (voanews.com)
Kunar1
6 210 children aged under five remain unable to access routine immunization services in Kunar province due to localised ban on health facilities. (who.int)
Badghis1
In the areas worst affected by drought, specifically Badghis and Faryab Provinces, Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes are expected to emerge with the start of the lean season in January. (fews.net)
Eleven1
Eleven persons suffered casualties in separate incidents in Badakhshan and Parwan provinces. (afghanislamicpress.com)
Patterns1
While a rise in opium prices has played an important part, a range of contextual factors including power, insecurity, social identity, agro-ecology and location are also important in explaining the crop's re-emergence, as well as the patterns of difference within and between the two provinces. (humansecuritygateway.com)
Snow1
The easternmost reaches of Badakhshan Province is already impassable, covered in snow likely until spring. (antiwar.com)
Herat1
Poor households in Herat, Badhis, and Ghor Provinces normally rely on monthly remittances from Iran. (fews.net)
Conflict3
As of August 28th, more than 182,000 people have fled their homes due to conflict in 31 of 34 Provinces since the beginning of the year. (fews.net)
More than 21,000 households have been displaced due to conflict in Ghanzi Province, where households now face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes. (fews.net)
Specifically, in Ghanzi City more than 21,000 people were displaced due to conflict in mid-August interrupting markets and trade throughout the province. (fews.net)
University1
Additionally, transect walks in the field were used to collect medicinal plants in the study area and the collected specimens were stored in the laboratory of Biology Department at Badakhshan University. (istanbul.edu.tr)
Area1
The total area of Badakhshan is 44,059 square kilometres (17,011 sq mi), most of which is occupied by the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges. (wikipedia.org)
Parts1
In parts of Badakhshan Province, however due to a better than previously anticipated wheat harvest and higher labor income, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes are most likely. (fews.net)
Military1
On the other hand, in a similar action in the town of Darzab, Jowzjan province, 20 extremists were annihilated, according to the military version. (schema-root.org)
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The note added that another air strike in Khas Uruzgan district, Uruzgan province, killed 15 rebels and wounded 16. (schema-root.org)
The forces launched operation from Parneyan district of Panjshir province to retake Keran Wa Manjan district. (tolonews.com)