Afghanistan - Taliban and Islamic State treat media as targets

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest threats and attacks against media outlets by armed groups in Afghanistan. The Taliban issued a statement yesterday proclaiming Afghanistan's two leading privately-owned TV stations to be “military targets” while Islamic State detonated a homemade bomb outside two radio stations in Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar, on 10 October. In yesterday's communiqué from the “Military Commission of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” (...)

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