KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, June 23 (Xinhua) — A total of 10 people including four police and six insurgents were killed as a clash erupted in Dasht-e-Archi district of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Saturday, district governor Nasrudin Nazari Saadi said. The clash, according to the official, flared up after Taliban fighters stormed several checkpoints in Salahudin
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Sputnik) – Afghanistan has assembled its largest combined special operations mission to clear Islamic State terrorist units from villages in the nation’s eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO’s Resolute Support mission explained in a press release on Friday. “The largest contingent of Afghan commandos ever assembled for a joint special operations mission is
MOSCOW, June 18 (Sputnik) – Two militants affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, outlawed in Russia) have been killed and one injured in an airstrike carried out by the Afghan forces in the country’s eastern Kunar province, local media reported Monday, citing the Afghan Defense Ministry. The airstrike was carried out in response
Press TV June 17, 2018 A bomb attack has killed at least 32 people in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar amid an announcement by the Taliban militants that they would not extend their temporary ceasefire with Afghan security forces and that fighting would resume in the crisis-hit country. The deadly explosion occurred outside the governor’s office
MOSCOW, June 17 (Sputnik) -The number of casualties after suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Nanagarhar Province on Saturday has reached 36, local media reported on Sunday, citing officials. On Saturday, the explosion hit Rodat district of Nanagarhar province where a gathering of Taliban and Afghan security forces celebrating the ceasefire on the occasion of the Eid
Press TV June 16, 2018 An explosion has killed at least 26 people at a gathering of the Taliban and Afghan security officials in the eastern province of Nangarhar as the two sides were marking their unprecedented three-day ceasefire on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr Muslim holidays. The reason for the explosion in the restive
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 11, 2018 A suicide attack in Kabul, a roadside bomb in eastern Ghazni Province, and coordinated attacks in Nangarhar and Kunduz provinces killed at least 33 people on June 11, Afghan officials say. In Kabul, a suicide attacker blew himself up outside the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, officials
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani praised his Afghan counterpart for announcing a temporary ceasefire in the war on armed militants in the holy month of Ramadan. In a meeting with his Afghan counterpart in China on Saturday, President Rouhani hailed Ashraf Ghani’s initiative for ceasefire, expressing the hope that internal dialogue in Afghanistan
Al-Monitor: The rise of the Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan poses a new challenge for the Islamic Republic, as it is becoming a magnet for Iranian Kurdish recruit. As President Donald Trump’s anti-Iran rhetoric intensifies, there are now fears that the United States and other governments hostile toward the Islamic Republic may use Iraqi Kurdistan
Mohammad Habibzada Zia Urahman Hasrat VOA News | June 8, 2018 WASHINGTON — In the last few weeks, at least 160 families have been displaced in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province by Islamic State attacks and fighting between U.S.-backed Afghan government forces and various militant groups. More than 400 families have been displaced in the province in