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
Jane’s Defence Weekly: Afghanistan is to receive an undisclosed number of Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to help replace its ageing Russian-built inventory and to enhance its air mobility capabilities, the US government disclosed in late January. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 27, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has arrested the leader of a social movement, which is campaigning against human rights abuses allegedly carried out by military forces during counterterrorism operations in areas near the border with Afghanistan. Manzoor Pashteen of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) was detained along with six others
Tolo News: Hasib Quwai Markaz, a man who has been on the wanted list of the Ministry of Interior Affairs for the past few months, in a social media video posted on Monday claims that the country’s intelligence apparatus – the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – is involved in targeted killings in Kabul and that
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
Press TV January 26, 2020 Afghan government forces have killed more than 50 militants in multiple operations against the Taliban in different provinces of the war-wracked country. Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the security forces had conducted 13 ground offensives and 12 aerial attacks in nine provinces, adding that 51 “terrorists” had been
Tolo News: The Afghan Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday that 197 Afghan students are in China, including some in the city of Wuhan, and they are vulnerable to the new coronavirus that has so far killed at least 56 people, and some are also at risk of running out of food while locked-down. The
Tolo News: A group of politicians and senior members of Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah’s campaign team at a gathering in Kabul on Sunday criticized the Presidential Palace for “impeding” the peace process by introducing new conditions for a potential peace agreement. Abdullah argued that instead of imposing more conditions, all offered opportunities should be taken advantage