EASO COI Report. Security situation

Nederlands

This report aims to provide information on the security situation in Afghanistan, which is relevant for the assessment of international protection status determination, including refugee status and subsidiary protection.

This report is an update of the EASO COI report Afghanistan Security Situation first published in January 2015 and updated annually. This report is produced in line with the EASO COI Report Methodology (2019) and the EASO COI Writing and Referencing Style Guide (2019).

The security situation in Afghanistan remains volatile. After the reduction in violence preceding the signing of the Doha agreement between the US and the Taliban on 29 February 2020, the Taliban resumed targeting government checkpoints and convoys. In terms of territorial control, the situation changes rapidly with the Taliban advancing in a growing number of Afghanistan's provincial districts. At the same time, civilians are continuously threatened by indiscriminate violence and targeted attacks.

This report provides information about relevant security trends in the period between 1 January 2020 and 31 May 2021.The first part of the report provides a general overview of the security situation in the country, including conflict background and actors involved and main security incidents and their impact on the civilian population. The second part holds a geographic subdivision, focusing in greater detail on the security situation in all 34 provinces and Kabul city, and provides a description of the armed actors, recent security incidents as well as data on civilian casualties and conflict-induced displacements.

The following national asylum and migration departments are the co-drafters of this report:

- Belgium, Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons, Cedoca (Centre for Documentation and Research)

- France, Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless persons (OFPRA), Information, Documentation and Research Division (DIDR)

- Poland, Office for Foreigners, Country of Origin Information Division

The following departments and organisations have reviewed the report:

- Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)

- Denmark, Danish Immigration Service (DIS)

- Hungary, National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing, Documentation Centre

- Norway, Landinfo, the Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre

- Slovakia, Migration Office, Department of Documentation and Foreign Cooperation

The drafting of this report was finalised on 31 May 2021. Any event taking place after this date is not included in this report.

Beleid

De algemene veiligheidssituatie in Afghanistan wordt grotendeels bepaald door een langdurig aanslepend intern gewapend conflict, waardoor zeer veel Afghanen intern ontheemd zijn of hun toevlucht genomen hebben in het buitenland. Voor de beoordeling van de nood aan internationale bescherming houdt de commissaris-generaal er rekening mee dat er tussen de regio’s van Afghanistan fundamentele verschillen bestaan in de veiligheidssituatie, de aard en de intensiteit van het geweld.

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Afghanistan

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