Jeff Seldin VOA News August 7, 2018 PENTAGON — Intensified efforts to root out and destroy the Islamic State terror group in Afghanistan are making progress in some areas but have so far failed to prevent the terror group from maintaining a foothold in the country, based on the latest U.S. intelligence estimates. IS-Khorasan is thought
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 1, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban insurgency announced Wednesday it has cleared Afghanistan’s northern Jowzjan province of Islamic State, claiming residual IS fighters have fled and surrendered to government forces in the area. Provincial authorities in Jowzjan, which borders neighboring Turkmenistan, have also confirmed about 150 IS fighters, including foreigners, surrendered
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 31, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say insurgents attacked security forces and government buildings in the country’s eastern and western provinces killing and wounding scores of people. In western Farah province, officials said a roadside bomb early Tuesday killed at least 11 passengers and wounding around 40 others. A provincial government
MOSCOW, July 31 (Sputnik) – Hayatullah Khan Rahmani, a candidate for the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections from the eastern province of Nangarhar, was killed on Monday by a suicide attacker, local media reported. Rahmani, who was also a commander of the local public uprising forces, was killed along with his three family members, according to
VOA News July 28, 2018 A provincial government official in eastern Afghanistan said Saturday three staff members of a midwife training center were killed in an attack on the facility. Gunmen stormed the facility Saturday in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, and fought security forces for several hours. Provincial governor spokesman
Mohammad Habibzada VOA News July 23, 2018 WASHINGTON — Retired Afghan national security forces, both from the national army and from the national police, would be recruited as part of a new Afghan regional force to provide security for areas retaken from Islamic State militants and Taliban insurgents, an Afghan official told VOA. General Mohammad Radmanish,
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, July 15 (Xinhua) — Unidentified armed men set a school on fire in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement Sunday. “Unknown armed men torched Kiptan Baba Middle School in Bati Kot district at midnight Saturday. The school building was destroyed and all the documents and books inside
Press TV July 14, 2018 Senior intelligence officials from Iran, Russia, China, and Pakistan have reportedly reached an agreement to join efforts against Daesh terror group in Afghanistan. The officials agreed over integrated efforts for rooting out the outfit from Afghanistan during a meeting in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, English-language Pakistani daily The Nation reported on Friday,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2018 Afghan officials say government forces have killed at least six civilians in a ground and air operation in the eastern province of Nangarhar Province. Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial government, said the operation in Khogyani district on late July 12 also wounded four other civilians. Ajmal
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 11, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A pair of heavily armed suicide bombers Wednesday stormed an education department office in eastern Afghanistan and killed at least 11 people. Witnesses said the assailants fired indiscriminately at staffers inside the building in Jalalabad, capital of the eastern Nangarhar province. A provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani,