The National Directorate of Security was the national intelligence and security service of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul,and it had field offices and training facilities in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The NDS was part of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
Sex segregation refers to the physical and spatial separation of humans by sex in public or private places. In public places,women are forced to wear the burqa at all times,because,according to one Taliban spokesman,"the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them (Non-Mahram).
Lieutenant General Sayed Abdul Ghafar Sayed zadah,is an Afghan Lieutenant general. He served for more than 30 years in policing in Afghanistan;currently he is serving as General Chief of Herat police headquarters.
Adib Fahim is the former deputy director general of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security. His father,Marshal Mohammad Fahim,was the first vice president of Afghanistan. Following the death of his father in March 2014,Adib was appointed as his father's successor in the social arena at a ceremony organized by then president Karzai in Afghanistan's Presidential Palace. He was featured on the Time Magazine and the National Public Radio (NPR).
The Sacrifice Front,more commonly known as Fidai Mahaz,was a Taliban splinter group and faction in the War in Afghanistan. It was led by Mullah Najibullah,also known as Omar Khitab,a former Taliban commander.
General Mohammad Yasin Zia,is an Afghan military officer and politician. He is a former Chief of General Staff,former Deputy Defense Minister,and former governor of Takhar Province,Afghanistan. Zia has also served as head of Afghanistan's counter terrorism unit (2011) and as the deputy director of the National Directorate of Security (2011–2015). In 2022,he was reported to be one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban Afghanistan Freedom Front resistance movement.
Daoud Naji also spelled as Dawood Naji is an ethnic Hazara politician,political activist and journalist from Afghanistan. He was senior political adviser to the Afghan National Security Council. Before he joined the government,he was a senior leader of the Enlightenment Movement of Afghanistan and the Tabassum movement. Daoud Naji has previously been a BBC Radio journalist and worked for BBC World Service for 14 years. As of September 2024,he is the head of the political committee of the Afghanistan Freedom Front.
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021. The state was established to replace the Afghan interim (2001–2002) and transitional (2002–2004) administrations,which were formed after the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan that had toppled the partially recognized Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. However,on 15 August 2021,the country was recaptured by the Taliban,which marked the end of the 2001–2021 war,the longest war in US history. This led to the overthrow of the Islamic Republic,led by President Ashraf Ghani,and the reinstatement of the Islamic Emirate under the control of the Taliban. While the United Nations still recognizes the Islamic Republic as the legitimate government of Afghanistan,this toppled regime controls no portion of the country today,nor does it operate in exile;it effectively no longer exists. The Islamic Emirate is the de facto ruling government. The US–Taliban deal,signed on 29 February 2020 in Qatar,was one of the critical events that caused the collapse of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Following the deal,the US dramatically reduced the number of air attacks and deprived the ANSF of a critical edge in fighting the Taliban insurgency,leading to the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing low-level guerrilla war between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side,and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on the other side. On 17 August 2021,former first vice president of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh declared himself the "caretaker" president of Afghanistan and announced the resistance. On 26 August,a brief ceasefire was declared. On 1 September,talks broke down and fighting resumed as the Taliban attacked resistance positions.
Sanaullah Ghafari,better known under his nom de guerre,Shahab al-Muhajir is an Afghan militant who is serving as the Emir of the Islamic State's Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) since 2020.
High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (HCIEA) (Pashto:دٙاَفغانِستاناِسلامياِمارَتعاليشوریٰ,romanized: DəAfġānistān IslāmīImārat ĀlīŠūrā ;Dari:شُورٰایِعٰالئِاِمٰارَتِاِسلٰامئِاَفغٰانِستٰان,romanized: Šūrā-yi Ālī-yi Imārat-i Islāmī-yi Afġānistān) was a breakaway Taliban faction active in Afghanistan since 2015. The faction broke away from the Taliban in 2015 following the appointment of Akhtar Mansour as the leader of the Taliban and elected Muhammad Rasul as its leader. The faction was involved in deadly clashes with mainstream Taliban in southern and western Afghanistan,leaving scores of dead on both sides. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan allegedly provided financial and military support to the faction,however,both the Islamic Republic and the faction denied this. Following the Taliban offensive of 2021 and the fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces,the group dissolved,and its leaders pledged allegiance to the new government.
The government of Afghanistan,officially called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and informally known as the Taliban government,is the central government of Afghanistan,a unitary state. Under the leadership of the Taliban,the government is a theocracy and an emirate with political power concentrated in the hands of a supreme leader and his clerical advisors,collectively referred to as the Leadership. The Leadership makes all major policy decisions behind closed doors,which are then implemented by the country's civil service and judiciary. As Afghanistan is an Islamic state,governance is based on Sharia law and Pashtunwali,which the Taliban enforces strictly through extensive social and cultural policies.
Mawlawi Mehdi Mujahid was an Afghan Hazara rebel who led around 200 Hazara fighters during the Balkhab uprising. He was a Taliban commander before rebelling against the Taliban until he was killed on 17 August 2022.
Mujib-ur-Rahman Ansari was an Afghan mullah and cleric who operated in the city of Herat. An ally of the Taliban,Ansari was considered to be a Salafist and Wahhabist preacher,and was a staunch opponent of the American-backed Afghan government. In the late 2010s,Ansari seized control of a district of Herat,where he established extrajudicial sharia courts and checkpoints operated by his armed enforcers. A Taliban official described Ansari as being Afghanistan's most popular religious scholar in 2022.
Abdulghafour Arezou is an Afghan writer,poet,Bīdelšinās,former ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Tajikistan and former university professor. By 2014 he had written more than 40 books about Persian poetry,literature,culture,and politics Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani called him one of the most prominent writers of modern Afghanistan. For his contribution to culture and language,he was awarded the medal of Ghazi Mir Bacha Khan kohdamani and the Abolghasem Ferdowsi's artistic cultural emblem.
Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi was an Afghan politician and military commander. In the 1990s,he was the governor of the Herat and Balkh provinces. He was one of the famous commanders of the splinter group of the Taliban led by Mullah Rasool,and one of the helpers of the Taliban group led by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada. He was also a critic of the policy of regional countries,especially Iran and Pakistan,towards Afghanistan.
Abdul Hamid Khorosani,known as Nasser Badri,is a Taliban military commander from Panjshir.
The Afghanistan Champions League is a professional men's football league run by the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF). It is the country's primary competition for the sport. The competition commenced in 2021.
