North Afghanistan: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2022

On January 1, Taliban members killed a former Police official, Shafiqullah Mohammadi, and injured his sister at their house in Pul-e-Khumri city, the provincial capital of Baghlan, reports Aamaj News 24 on January 5. “At mid night Taliban came into our house and requested guns, after that brutally killed my brother. When my sister wanted to avoid this issue, they wounded her. She went into a coma, and now she is hospitalized,” Seddiqullah Mohammadi brother of Shafiqullah Mohammadi claimed. Read less...

Two people one each from National Resistance Front (NRF) and Taliban were killed and one Taliban man was injured in clashes between the two groups in Elitch village of Ashkamash District of Takhar province on January 2, reports Hasht-e-Subh. Read less...

On January 3, the Taliban forces clashed with Turkmen border forces when they went to the border of Khamab district of Jowzjan Province, reports Hasht-e-Subh. “Three days ago, the Turkmen border guards had killed one civilian and beaten another,” said Helal Balkhi, acting head of the Taliban Information and Culture Department in Jowzjan province. According to him, the Taliban forces faced a military response from the Turkmen border forces when they went to the border of Khamab district to check the security situation this morning. “The Taliban forces fired back in response to an attack by Turkmen border guards,” said Balkhi. The details of the incident are not yet clear and no casualties have been reported. Read less...

On January 6, two Taliban members and a civilian were killed and, at least, four others were injured in the clashes between Safauddin, Criminal Investigations Bureau Chief, and Salahuddin, the police chief of Maimay District in the Maimay District of Badakhshan Province, reports Hasht-e-Subh. The dead civilian was from Shekay District of the Province. Read less...

Unidentified gunmen killed a civilian, Aziz Mohammad, in Hussain Khel village under Police District (PD) 6 of Pul-e-Khumri, the provincial capital of Baghlan, reports the Twitter handle of Afghan News on January 11. Read less...

A Taliban fighter from Pashtun ethnicity has been killed and, three others, including one civilian, were injured in clashes among Taliban fighters from Uzbek and Pashtun communities in Maimana, the capital city of Faryab province, reports Hasht-e-Subh on January 14.The people of the province protested over the arrest of Makhdoom Alam Rabbani, a Taliban commander from Uzbek community, which led to an armed clash among Taliban fighters in Faryab. Read less...

Taliban shot dead one of the commanders of the Popular Uprising Force (PUF) of the erstwhile government, Jura, in Khawja Palkhman village under Rustaq District of Takhar Province, reports Hasht-e-Subh. Read less...

Unidentified gunmen shot dead, Haneefa Nazari a female civil activist in Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh Province, reports the Twitter handle of Reporterlyaf on January 18. Read less...

On January 18, Taliban troopers arrested a commander of the erstwhile regime’s Popular Uprising Forces (PUF), Tahir, in Kalfagan District of Takhar Province, reports Hasht-e-Subh. “Taliban forces entered the commander’s house and took him away after beating him up,” a family member of the commander told the daily. Read less...

Taliban personnel in a clash killed eight fighters from the National Resistance Front (NRF) in Balkh Province, reports The Guardian. This was confirmed by the provincial Police spokesman Asif Waziri told reporters in an audio message. Read less...

On January 21, unidentified gunmen shot dead an employee of the erstwhile government’s Agriculture Department, identified as Baryali, near Takhar University in Taloqan city, the provincial capital of Takhar, reports Hasht-e Subh. Read less...

Four Taliban and one National Resistance Front (NRF) fighters were killed in clashes among both sides in Darah Charkh-e-Falak village of Khost Farang District of Baghlan Province, reports Hasht-e Subh on January 24. So far, the Taliban has not commented on the incident. The report does not specify the date of the beginning of the offensive. At the time of reporting, the fighting was on. Read less...

On January 24, Taliban security personnel recovered the corpse of an unidentified man from the Dasht-e-Aas area in Chaharbagh District of Faryab Province, reports Hasht-e-Subh. Read less...

On January 27, unidentified gunmen shot dead two civilians, identified as a former government soldier Mohammad Shafi and his brother Mash’ur Jaber, in Charikarya village under Khanabad District in Kunduz Province, reports Hust-e-Subh. Read less...

Two Taliban fighters were killed in an armed attack in Samangan Province on January 28, reports The Canberra Times. The attack was carried out by unknown gunmen in Darah Suf Payan District, Provincial Taliban spokesman Khairkhawa Samangani told. A member of the Taliban's Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Mawlawi Naeem and another armed man was killed in the attack, the official added. Read less...