AA: Illegal poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has surged by 10 percent, the country’s Counter-Narcotics Ministry said Saturday. Ministry spokesman Mohammad Hanif told reporters in Kabul that besides the traditional areas of poppy cultivation in the country’s south and southwest, the northern province of Badghes has fueled much of this year’s surge in illegal poppy cultivation. Click
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 29, 2016 A top general in the Afghan National Army has been killed, and at least seven other officials have been injured, in a military helicopter crash in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Badghis. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry told RFE/RL that General Mohayedin Ghori, the army corps commander for
QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — A senior security official Brigadier Abdul Qadir lost his life after Taliban militants ambushed his motorcade in the western Badghis province with Qala-e-Naw as its capital, 555 km northwest of Kabul on Monday, provincial police chief Abdul Rauf Taj said. “Brigadier Abdul Qadir the commander of Special Force of
QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — Taliban massive offensive on Balamurghab district in the western Badghis province has been repulsed and the militants after leaving 53 bodies behind fled the area, a local official said Tuesday. “Hundreds of Taliban rebels launched a massive and coordinated offensive to capture the stratigically important Balamurghab district late last
AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:
AOPNEWS | January 28, 2016 Khost: One civilian and five others were wounded when an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) went off inside a drug store in the provincial capital around midday today. Baghlan: A teenage girl was injured after three rockets were fired by militants into a residential area of Pul-e Khumri. Jowzjan: Dozens of