By Jeff Seldin VOA News May 1, 2020 WASHINGTON – Assessing the security situation in Afghanistan is getting increasingly difficult now that Western military officials have started withholding some data on militant attacks across the country, according to a key U.S. government watchdog. The warning from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, also known as
By Ayaz Gul VOA News December 11, 2019 ISLAMABAD – A powerful bomb-and-gun attack on the largest American military base in Afghanistan early Wednesday killed at least one person and wounded more than 80 others, mostly civilians. Afghan military authorities said a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle in front of the gate of an
1TV: The Independent Election Commission’s recounting and auditing process must come to an end quite soon, NATO’ senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, Nicholas Kay, has said. “When IEC makes its announcement of the preliminary results, candidates should respect its decisions,” Kay said. Click here to read more (external link). Related Protests continue over the Independent Election Commission’s failure
Tolo News: NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, referring to the delayed election process in Afghanistan, said “it is important” for Afghan electoral organizations to ”finalize the counting” and “present their results.” Click here to read more (external link). Related Presidential Candidates: We Won’t Accept Election Result We Cannot Invalidate Differing Votes: IEC Chairwoman (Hawa Alam Nooristani)
Tolo News: Gen. Scott Miller, the commander of US Forces in Afghanistan on Saturday commended the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces for their role in the recent elections and said that these forces are developing well and are upgraded. Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of NATO’s Defense Ministers’Meeting in Brussel, the top
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 5, 2019 At least 12 people have been killed — including a U.S. and a Romanian soldier — and dozens more injured when a car bomb struck a checkpoint on September 5 in a neighborhood of Kabul that houses the embassies, government buildings, and local NATO headquarters. The fundamentalist Taliban
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 30, 2019 The United Nations says more Afghan civilians were killed by government and NATO-led troops than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the first half of 2019. The U.N.’s mission in Afghanistan released a report Monday that showed a combined 717 civilians were killed by government and
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 13, 2019 The NATO-led security alliance in Afghanistan says an American soldier was killed “in action” Saturday, which brings to 11 the number of deaths among the U.S. military this year in the Afghanistan. The Resolute Support mission gave no further details and withheld the name of the service member
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 26, 2019 BRUSSELS — NATO defense ministers will gather in Brussels on June 26 for two days of talks that will include defense spending within the alliance, its mission in Afghanistan, and Russia’s alleged violation of a Cold War-era nuclear-arms-control agreement, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. Meanwhile, acting U.S. Defense Secretary
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 21, 2019 A U.S. government watchdog says a lack of coordinated oversight of U.S. spending in Afghanistan has led to a waste of funds and hampered the training and development of Afghan security forces. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report to Congress late on June 20