By Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 8, 2019 KABUL – Al-Qaida’s South Asia region chief, Asim Omar, was killed along with many others in southern Afghanistan last month, according to a statement released by Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security. The Tuesday statement said a joint operation — a term usually used to
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News September 23, 2019 KABUL – At least 40 members of a wedding party, including women and children, were killed and another 13 wounded in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan Sunday night, according to a provincial council member from Helmand province. Haji Abdul Majed Akhund told VOA that the residents of Musa
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 5, 2019 Afghan peace protesters who went missing after marching through a Taliban-controlled area of Helmand Province have been detained by the militants, a supporter of the movement told RFE/RL on June 5. The so-called People’s Peace Movement (PPM) attracted international attention last year with its peace marches across
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 17, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A foreign military airstrike in Afghanistan’s embattled southern Helmand province has mistakenly killed at least 17 government forces and wounded 14 others. A local security official requesting anonymity Friday confirmed to VOA the casualties, saying the deadly strike occurred just outside the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 23, 2019 Four people, including a provincial official, have been killed and dozens more wounded in a twin bombing claimed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said the attack targeted a celebration of Farmer’s Day in a sports stadium in the provincial capital of Helmand Province on March
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 1, 2019 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban carried out a pre-dawn assault Friday against a major military base in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 25 troops and taking “a number of others” hostage. Afghan officials and Taliban sources say a group of heavily armed insurgents in military uniforms, including suicide bombers, stormed
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 25, 2019 Sixteen civilians from the same extended family have been killed in an air strike on a home in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official says. The air strike was carried out in the Sangin district during heavy fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban militants, Attaullah Afghan, head of the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 5, 2019 Afghan special forces have rescued 12 people from a Taliban prison in the country’s south on the same day that the militants kidnapped a group of 15 government employees in the west, officials said. The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the country’s main intelligence agency, said in a
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — An American drone strike in southern Afghanistan has killed a key Taliban military commander, dealing a serious blow to the insurgent group. Afghan and Taliban officials Sunday identified the slain man as Mullah Abdul Manan, saying he was killed along with four partners Saturday in the Nawzad
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 28, 2018 Afghan officials say at least 30 civilians have been killed in a U.S. air strike in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban stronghold. The NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said Afghan forces and U.S. advisers came under fire from Taliban fighters in a compound in Garmsir