In Kabul city, an IS-planted explosive killed at least four workers of Pul-e-Charki prison. In Mazar-e-Sharif city of Balkh province, IS attacked a vehicle carrying airport staff, killing at least two people. Violence targeting civilians also persisted last week, with attacks carried out by both the Taliban and IS. The Afghanistan Liberation Movement also claims the killings of over a dozen Taliban members in Wardak and Urozgan provinces, including the deputy governor of Chak-e-Wardak district of Wardak. Additionally, the National Liberation Front of Afghanistan claims to have killed Taliban commanders in Helmand province and the intelligence director of the military university in Kabul ( Facebook 15 June 2022). This is the second recorded attack by the Watandost Front, which claims to have seized a village from the Taliban in Ghazni province in May. In Mohammad Agha district of Logar province, the Watandost Front claimed to have killed five Taliban members. Several other anti-Taliban groups also targeted the Taliban last week. Further clashes took place in Panjshir province, where the Taliban deployed new troops ( Hasht-e Subh, 17 June 2022), with the Taliban attacking the NRF in Shutul, Rukha, and Unaba districts. Meanwhile, the National Resistance Front (NRF) continued its attacks on the Taliban in Parwan, Takhar, Kapisa, Baghlan, and Badakhshan provinces last week. Two civilians were also killed and at least two injured during the clashes in Kunar and Takhar. The Taliban killed seven IS militants and a commander during anti-IS operations in Taloqan district of Takhar province. IS targeted the Taliban in Kabul city and Kunar and Laghman provinces. In Afghanistan, clashes between the Taliban and various armed groups, including IS and anti-Taliban groups, continued last week. In Sri Lanka, demonstrations over fuel shortages intensified amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Meanwhile, demonstrations against derogatory remarks regarding the Prophet Muhammad made by two members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continued in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. In India, army aspirants held demonstrations across several states and union territories against an army recruitment scheme offering limited-term employment. Elsewhere in Pakistan, poll-related violence broke out in Sindh over local elections held on 16 June. In Pakistan, Baloch separatists targeted state forces and civilians in Balochistan province, while unknown groups conducted remote explosions and clashed with security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Taliban clashed with the Islamic State (IS) and anti-Taliban groups across Afghanistan, while the Taliban, IS, and unknown perpetrators continued to target civilians.
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