Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 22, 2018 At least 10 people have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni and Zabul provinces, officials say. “Unfortunately, eight local police were killed and another one was injured,” said Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor, after a large number of Taliban militants attacked
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
VOA News May 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Unknown gunmen have killed a German aid worker and her Afghan security guard in Kabul before kidnapping a Finnish woman who worked for an aid organization. A Finnish Foreign Ministry spokesperson is reported to have confirmed a Finn has been taken hostage, and that there is no information yet
Press TV March 11, 2017 Eight Afghan policemen have been killed in their base by “infiltrators” in an attack claimed by the Taliban in Shinkia district of the southern province of Zabul. “The infiltrators first poisoned their colleagues and then shot them dead,” said provincial spokesman Gul Islam Seyal on Saturday. The attackers fled the
Khaama Press: The provincial governor and mayor of southern Zabul province escaped an ambush by unknown gunmen earlier today. According to the local government officials, the incident took place on Zabul-Kandahar highway as the two top officials were on their way to Safa district. Provincial governor’s spokesman Gul Islam Siyal confirmed the incident and said governor
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 17, 2016 Afghan officials say unknown gunmen have shot dead a reporter in the southern province of Zabul. Zabul Province’s police chief, General Mirwais Noorzai, said Yaqoob Sharafat was killed late on October 16 in the provincial capital, Qalat. Sharafat was reportedly leaving a clinic with his wife when the
Tolo News: Abdul Rahman, the Taliban’s commander for Zabul insurgency, was killed in a clash with security forces overnight Friday, security officials claimed in a statement. According to officials the clash started on Friday night in Qalat city, the provincial capital, when the Taliban attacked a police check post. One other Taliban insurgent was wounded, officials added. Click
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 4, 2016 At least 35 people have died after a passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in southern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said on September 4 that the road accident occurred in the province of Zabul as the bus was on its way from Kandahar to
KABUL, Aug.17 (Xinhua) — Another breakaway Taliban group called “Dadullah Mahaz” which means Dadullah front announced its existence in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province on Sunday, a source close to the newly emerged armed faction Mawlawi Nematullah Samim said Wednesday. According to Samim, the newly splinter Taliban group is headed by Imdadullah Mansoor, the nephew of
VOA News Ayaz Gul August 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Local officials and foreign military commanders in Afghanistan have played down concerns Islamic State is expanding activities beyond its traditional strongholds in the east. They insist the recent killing of the local leader of IS in an American drone strike and gains by Afghan forces against the