The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a ...
The Taliban emerged following a civil war that sparked after the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989. In their first rule of 1996 to 2001, public executions were common.
In December 2022, the Taliban authorities carried out their first public execution since seizing power, putting to death an Afghan citizen who was convicted of murder. The execution was conducted ...
The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be carried out in the ...
GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country's southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired ...
The killings were the third and fourth public executions since the Taliban seized power in 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
It was also the fifth public execution since the Taliban seized power of Afghanistan in August 2021 as the U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of their withdrawal from the country after ...
The Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan as thousands watched the killing of two convicted men as their victims' relatives fired the gunshots ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be ...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday. A crowd of thousands, including an AP journalist, witnessed the ...