Ayaz Gul VOA News September 11, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say a roadside bomb attack Sunday killed a provincial police chief and wounded at least three security guards. Officials in eastern Nangarhar province say slain General Zorawar Zahid was leading a counter insurgency operation in the troubled Hasarak district when his vehicle hit an
By Frud Bezhan September 9, 2016 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Resistance fighter and anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Masud was killed by Al-Qaeda assassins on September 9, 2001, ushering in a chain of events that would place Afghanistan at the center of the global war on terrorism. Two days after his death, Al-Qaeda operatives would carry
By Ron Synovitz and Hamid Mohmand Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 9, 2016 KABUL — Ahmad Masud was 12 years old when his father, the legendary anti-Taliban military commander known as the “Lion of Panjshir,” was killed by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in northern Afghanistan on September 9, 2001. The assassination of Ahmad Shah Masud, who also
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 8, 2016 Afghans are commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massud, the revered Northern Alliance leader and anti-Taliban commander who was assassinated by Al-Qaeda militants on September 9, 2001. September 8 marks the start of Martyrs Week, which is observed every year in Afghanistan to remember
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 28, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces have raided a madrassa, or Islamic seminary, in the southwestern city of Quetta and rounded up around 100 Afghan nationals for suspected links to militant groups, officials said. Provincial government spokesman Anwar ul-Haq Kakar told VOA the detainees did not posses any identity documents.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 5, 2016 Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan have joined China in a military alliance aimed at countering Islamist militancy, officials said. Military leaders from the four countries gathered on August 4 in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang to announce the alliance, the Pakistani Army said. Known as the Quadrilateral Cooperation and
1TV: President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said that the state to state relations with Pakistan are bigger problem for Afghanistan than existence of terror groups such as Taliban and Al Qaeda. In an interview with Geo News, Ashraf Ghani said that there are sanctuaries and Taliban offices in Quetta “they are openly recruiting, financed and logistic supplies
VOA News Carla Babb July 12, 2016 BAGRAM AIR FIELD, AFGHANISTAN—The top U.S. general in Afghanistan says his forces are using the new authority they have been given to strike Taliban targets “almost daily” in support of the Afghan government’s efforts to rid the country of insurgents and terrorists. Speaking at Bagram Air Field on
Press TV July 11, 2016 President Barack Obama announced last week that the US strategy in Afghanistan has changed again, slowing the drawdown of US forces in the country. He even bragged about why he constantly reviews his strategy in Afghanistan, changes commanders, and makes adjustments, saying he is “guided by the facts, what’s happening
1TV: Pakistan is violating sovereignty of other nations by allowing terrorists to enjoy safe havens in its soil, Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative told the United Nations on Tuesday. Speaking at the U.N. Security Council debate, Mahmoud Saikal noted how chiefs of terror groups such as al Qaeda and Taliban died in Pakistan over the past 15 years. Click