Ariana: Tribal elders and residents of Musa Khil district in Khost province have decided to fine with five thousand Afghanis as a punishment those families that prevent their daughters from going to schools. Manadeer Mangal a tribal elder told Ariana News that if we allow our daughters to go to schools and study especially medical section, the
VOA News May 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded mosque being used as a voter registration center in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 17 worshipers and wounding 33 others The attack came hours after unknown gunmen in a northern Afghan region kidnapped seven engineers, mostly Indian nationals. The mosque bombing occurred
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 16, 2018 Afghanistan has returned the dead bodies of five Pakistani soldiers to Pakistan following clashes near the two countries’ disputed border, Afghan officials say. Hukum Khan Habibi, the governor of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost, said that one captured soldier was also handed over to Pakistan’s
Tolo News: At only 16 years of age, Afghanistan’s Mujeeb Zadran is making waves on the international cricket stage after taking a remarkable five wickets in a recent ODI. Zadran, who hails from Khost, has enjoyed a meteoric start to his international career. The 16-year-old Afghanistan spinner, whose uncle Noor Ali Zadran is also a national
KHOST, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Some 50 Taliban militants were killed and three others wounded in an airstrike against a militants’ hideout in eastern province of Khost, a local official said Saturday. “The strike was conducted in a remote locality in Piri area of Musa Khil district late on Friday evening,” district chief Gulab
VOA News / May 28, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A Taliban infiltrator has gunned down six government forces in southern Afghanistan, raising the number of army and police personnel killed by insurgents in the past week to nearly 100. Afghan and insurgent officials said Sunday the overnight “insider attack” incident took place at a
Ayaz Gul VOA News / May 27, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of government forces in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding six others. Officials said the attack in the eastern city of Khost targeted a special unit of Afghan forces providing security for U.S. troops
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 17, 2017 An Afghan official says a suicide car bombing near an army base in eastern Afghanistan has killed one soldier and wounded several others. Akbar Zadran, a district chief in the eastern province of Khost, said that the Taliban detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in front of the military base
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 3, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Senior Taliban officials say a suspected American drone strike has killed a key Taliban commander who told captured U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl “Don’t come back to Afghanistan” moments before releasing him to the U.S. military in a prisoner swap three years ago. The U.S. military, however,
Reuters: The wife of an American author who disappeared on a research trip in Afghanistan more than two years ago appealed for his freedom on Thursday in a Pakistani newspaper. Paul Overby, 74, went missing in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province shortly after May 17, 2014, the last contact he had with his family. He was hoping