RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 23, 2020 Afghan officials say dozens of Taliban fighters staged overnight raids and stormed several checkpoints in the northern part of the country, killing at least 14 security personnel. The violence early on June 23 comes after authorities this week accused the Taliban of increasing attacks on Afghan forces at
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | May 18, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – A car bomb attack on an intelligence base in central Ghazni province in Afghanistan early Monday morning killed at least seven members of the security forces and wounded 40 others. Dr. Baser Ramaki, head of the Ghazni provincial hospital that received both the bodies
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 28, 2020 Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of the crew killed when a military aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. The Bombardier E-11A, used for military communications, went down in a snowy part of eastern Afghanistan on
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 27, 2020 A plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27 but details about the incident remain unclear. A Taliban spokesman says that the plane was a U.S. military aircraft. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a U.S. Air Force plane crashed in the Ghazni Province, which sits in the foothills
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 14, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Saturday Taliban infiltrators have killed at least 25 government security forces in the eastern volatile Ghazni province. The overnight insider attack happened in the Qarabagh district where a group of seven security personnel Friday night turned their guns on fellow soldiers at
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 13, 2019 Ten people, including four women and a child, were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on December 13. The occurred in the volatile district of Jaghatu in Ghazni province. All the victims of the blast were civilians, said Aref Noori, a spokesman for
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 22, 2019 Afghan authorities say Taliban militants have suffered heavy casualties in the latest security operations in several provinces across the country. A Taliban commander and six other militants were killed in clashes in Parwan Province north of the capital, Kabul, provincial police chief Muhammad Mahfooz Walizada said on
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 16, 2019 At least seven people have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan while one-third of the country was hit by a blackout. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the police chief of the western Farah Province, said five people, including women and children, were killed when a roadside bomb hit
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 27, 2019 At least three police officers have been killed and 12 wounded in a Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan. A police spokesman said the July 27 explosion targeted a district police headquarters in southeastern Ghazni Province. He said the Taliban, who control much of the province, used a stolen
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 16, 2019 The head of a private radio station in eastern Afghanistan says it was shut down after numerous threats from a Taliban commander in the area who objected to women being employed at the station, while a local official said that a private dispute was behind the incident. Ramez