Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2019 Officials in Afghanistan say women and children were among 10 civilians killed in separate air strikes by security forces late on July 19. In one incident, Abdol Aziz Beg, head of a provincial council in the western Badghis Province, said that insurgents had surrounded an army base in
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 17, 2019 An Afghan regional governor said 25 members of the country’s elite commando units have been killed in fighting with the Taliban. The incident, which occurred on July 15 in the northern province of Badghis, is the latest in which specially trained Afghan military units have suffered unusually
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 4, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan said Saturday coalition airstrikes in an eastern province have killed up to 50 Islamic State militants, while Taliban insurgents have killed at least seven government forces in a western district. The Defense Ministry said the overnight airstrikes were carried out in coordination with Afghan
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 8, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say the latest military-led offensives, backed by coalition air power, have killed nearly 100 Taliban insurgents and injured dozens more in a bid to reclaim full control of a volatile district in western Badghis province. Hundreds of heavily armed insurgents assaulted Bala Murghab last
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 4, 2019 Afghan officials say a Taliban attack in the northwestern province of Badghis has killed at least 20 government soldiers and police. Abdul Aziz Baig, head of the Badghis Provincial Council, said Taliban fighters stormed several security checkpoints outside the government headquarters in the district of Bala Murghab during
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 17, 2019 Afghan officials on March 17 reported setbacks for government security forces in northwestern and northern parts of the country. In the northwestern province of Badghis, provincial council member Mohammad Naser Nazari said about 100 Afghan soldiers fled their posts and tried to cross into neighboring Turkmenistan during a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 10, 2019 Officials in four provinces of Afghanistan say a series of Taliban attacks on security checkpoints have killed at least 32 members of the Afghan security forces and pro-government militias. The attacks took place in the northern provinces of Kunduz, Baghlan, and Takhar, and in the western province of
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 7, 2019 ISLAMABAD — More than 30 people, mostly pro-government forces, were killed in Afghanistan when Taliban insurgents stormed security outposts and a bomb blast ripped through a busy market, officials confirmed Monday. The Taliban staged coordinated raids in two districts of northwestern Badghis province late Sunday, killing 21 Afghan soldiers
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 22, 2018 A Taliban attack on an Afghan military convoy in the southwestern Badghis Province left four soldiers dead, officials said on November 22. Seven soldiers were also wounded in the Taliban ambush early on November 22, which occurred as the military convoy traveled through the provincial capital of Qalay-e
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 17, 2018 Taliban attacks across two western Afghan provinces have left at least 12 Afghan police officers dead, officials say. In the province of Farah, provincial council member Khair Mohammad Noorzai said at least seven Afghan police officers were killed after militants attacked a check post early on September 17.