Mohammad Habibzada VOA News / April 17, 2018 Islamic State militants executed a 12-year-old boy on charges of helping local police in northern Afghanistan, according to a senior Afghan government official who spoke to VOA. The boy was accused of supplying food and water to an Afghan local police check post in northern Jawzjan province.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 17, 2018 At least six civilians have been shot dead by gunmen in Afghanistan’s western Ghor Province, an Afghan official says. Iqbal Nezami, spokesman for the provincial police chief, said four other civilians were wounded after their car was fired upon near Faroz Koh, the provincial capital, early on April
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Press TV April 7, 2018 Afghan forces have killed a top commander of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Afghanistan’s northern province of Jawzjan a year after he defected from the Taliban terror outfit and set up a new Daesh foothold in the crisis-hit country, security officials say. Afghanistan’s Tolo News channel, citing Mohammad Hanif
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 4, 2018 KABUL — Six Afghan soldiers have been slightly wounded in a bomb attack in the capital, the Defense Ministry says. The ministry said in a statement that two magnetic bombs placed on a power transmission tower exploded in Kabul on April 4 when members of the Afghan National Army (ANA)
Mohammad Habibzada VOA News Apri 1, 2018 Violence across Afghanistan killed 121 civilians and injured 322 others in March, according to a Civilian Protection Advocacy Group (CPAG) report. The deadliest attack was on March 21, when a suicide bomber targeted civilians returning from a New Year celebration in the Kart-i-Sakhi area of Kabul. At least
Hasib Danish Alikozai VOA News March 29, 2018 Afghan photojournalist Massoud Hossaini, who has been working for the Associated Press in Kabul, said he survived what he called an assassination attempt Thursday. Hossaini won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2012 after capturing the image of a crying girl in the aftermath of
Press TV March 25, 2018 Two attackers struck a Shia mosque in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding eight others, officials said, in the latest assault against the Muslim minority. The men stormed the grounds of the mosque in the western city of Herat, but security guards shot dead one of
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 21, 2018 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghan officials say a suicide blast has killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 65 others in Kabul. Officials and witnesses say the bomber targeted a crowd during celebrations to mark the Persian new year, Nowruz, Wednesday near a Shi’ite Muslim neighborhood. Islamic
Press TV March 18, 2018 An attacker has set off a grenade among a group of university students in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing himself and wounding five students. On Sunday, the assailant, dressed in a school uniform, struck a neighborhood dominated by ethnic Hazaras, a Shia Muslim minority frequently targeted by extremist groups. Nasir Nadery, the district