Ayaz Gul VOA News April 14, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Fresh fighting in northern Afghanistan has disrupted the electric supply to Kabul and several provinces for the second time in less than three weeks. The hostilities come as the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday launched a long-delayed voters’ registration process for parliamentary and district council
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 13, 2018 Taliban insurgents have assaulted a security outpost in western Afghanistan, killing at least 11 government security forces.The Thursday night attack took place in Shindand district in the province of Herat, which borders Iran. District Governor Shukrullah Shaker told VOA the insurgent raid also wounded four security personnel. The
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A predawn Taliban attack has killed a district governor and seven police personnel in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Ghazni. Scores of heavily armed insurgents participated in Thursday’s coordinated assault on the governor’s office in Khawaja Omari and overran the district center, said residents. Provincial police chief Mohammad
VOA News Mohammad Habibzada April 9, 2018 A motorcycle bomb explosion killed eight civilians and wounded seven others in Afghanistan’s western Herat province. The explosion took place Monday afternoon in a local market in Shindand district close to a gas station, the Herat governor’s spokesperson Jelani Farhad told VOA. “Women and children are among the
VOA News April 7, 2018 The grass-roots call for peace by some residents that began as a sit-in in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province is gathering momentum and spreading to other provinces of the country. A car bomb explosion March 23 in the nation’s southern region, near a packed sports stadium in the provincial capital of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 7, 2018 Dozens of public schools that were shut down by the Taliban in an area under its control south of Kabul are set to reopen after a deal was reached with the militant group, an Afghan official says. Salim Saleh, a spokesman for the provincial governor of Logar, said
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 7, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has said his official meetings with leaders in Afghanistan in the past week have helped narrow a mutual “trust deficit” and the visit will prove to be a “milestone” in promoting regional peace. Abbasi undertook a day-long visit to Kabul on
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 6, 2018 The Taliban has closed at least 30 schools in an area under its control south of Kabul after a local militant commander was killed by government forces, Afghan officials say. Salim Saleh, a spokesman for Logar Province’s governor, said on April 6 that the Taliban closed the schools
VOA News | April 4, 2018: The Afghan government has released new drone video footage as it defends an airstrike it carried out this week in Taliban-controlled Kunduz province. The government says more than 30 Taliban fighters were killed in Monday’s airstrike on a religious school. Eyewitnesses said numerous civilians including children died in the
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)