RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 9, 2018 KABUL — A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has blown himself up near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people, officials say. Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai told RFE/RL that more than 20 people were wounded
William Gallo VOA News September 7, 2018 BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met Friday with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other top Afghan officials, including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. Ghani said at the meeting that stopping attacks by Afghan forces on NATO troops is a national priority. The encounters are also
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan mourned Thursday the death of at least 26 civilians, including sportsmen, rescue workers and journalists, in an overnight double suicide bombing in Kabul. Islamic State, via its so-called Amaq News Agency, claimed responsibility for the attack. The violence occurred Wednesday night in the western Dashti-i-Barchi suburb
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 5, 2018 Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a predominately Shi’ite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital has killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 others, the Interior Ministry says. Officials said a suicide bomber on September 5 blew himself up inside the sports hall, which is located in Dasht-e Barchi
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 3, 2018 A U.S. service member has been killed and another wounded in an attack in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission says. A statement said the “apparent insider attack” occurred on September 3, adding that the service member who died was the sixth American to be killed in
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News September 2, 2018 U.S. forces in Afghanistan say they targeted and killed the leader of Islamic State Khorasan Province last month in eastern Afghanistan. ISKP is the branch of IS operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the vicinity. Abu Sayeed Bajaur, also known as Abu Saad Orakzai, is the third ISKP leader
VOA News Jeff Seldin September 1, 2018 Russia is not giving up on efforts to destabilize Afghanistan and drive divisions between the United States and its coalition partners, according to the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in the country. The commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and of Operation Resolute Support, General John Nicholson, is scheduled to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 31, 2018 Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed five border police and wounded three others in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Attullah Khoghyani, spokesman for Nangarhar’s provincial governor, told RFE/RL that a vehicle was carrying the police officers when the bomb was detonated on August 30 in the
VOA News August 30, 2018 WASHINGTON / NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Since the beginning of 2018, Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province has experienced more than 70 terror attacks, killing 260 and injuring over 500, according to an Afghan watchdog organization that monitors violence and civilian casualties around the country. A large number of those killings have been the
MOSCOW, August 30 (Sputnik) – Five officers of the Afghan Border Police Force were killed in a roadside mine explosion in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday, Afghan media reported, citing local officials. The incident took place at about 11:30 a.m. local time (07:00 GMT), when a border police car hit the mine