Routine Taliban Appointments Demand Bloodshed as Defiant Commander Holds Badakhshan Gold Mines
In what should have been a routine transfer of authority, the Taliban regime has once again exposed the limits of its power. Abdul Rahman Ammar, former head of the Taliban’s mining operations in Badakhshan, openly defies orders from the supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, forcing the regime to rely on brutal violence to enforce even […]










