Tolo News: At least one archaeologist died and three others were wounded early Saturday morning in Benisar area in the eastern part of Kabul city. Mohammad Sabir Mohmand, spokesman for the information and culture ministry confirmed the incident and said the explosion happened at about 7am local time when the archaeologists were on their way to
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 30, 2018 An attack on Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry in Kabul has been repelled with one policeman and all of the attackers being killed in the latest in a series of militant attacks in the city. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the first checkpoint of the Afghan Interior Ministry
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 29, 2018 Afghan forces have killed nine people, mostly civilians, by mistake during a raid on a house in the eastern province of Nangarhar, officials say. Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told RFE/RL on May 29 that eight people, including a child and a woman, were also
Tolo News: Residents collected money to make the gold medal, which was handed over to the US ambassador in Kabul on Saturday. One of the men in Logar province who awarded a ‘medal of bravery’ to US President Donald Trump, was killed on Sunday in Pul-e-Alam city, the provincial capital. The man named Haji Gul Nabi
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 28, 2018 Unidentified gunmen have killed an employee of a voter-registration center and a police officer in the western Afghan province of Herat, officials say. A spokesman for the provincial police chief said the attack took place in the Chishti Sharif district late on May 27. The two were taken
VOA News | May 27, 2018: An explosion of an artillery shell in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province killed or wounded 11 members of one family, most of them children. The ordnance reportedly had been left behind unexploded after a fierce firefight between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants in the area. The family claims neither the
1TV: A team (Sunrisers Hyderabad) in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday wore black arm bands to express sympathy over an attack on a cricket match in Afghanistan that left at least eight dead last week. Friday night’s attack in Jalalabad city involved multiple explosions that targeted spectators of inaugural match of local tournament Ramadan Cup.
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 21, 2018 The Taliban has warned Kabul residents to stay away from “military centers” as they vowed more attacks in the Afghan capital. In a statement published online on May 21, the militants said the coming attacks on “the enemy’s military and intelligence centers” were part of an annual spring
Zia Urahman Hasrat VOA News May 19, 2018 NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — A series of explosions killed at least eight civilians and wounded more than 40 others in eastern Afghanistan, provincial authorities told VOA. Attaullah Khogyanai, provincial spokesperson for eastern Nangarhar province, told VOA the explosions occurred in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, at night at a cricket
HRW: The United States and Afghan governments are not adequately investigating possible unlawful airstrikes in Afghanistan, which may contribute to rising civilian casualties, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent accounts from airstrike victims and witnesses in Nangarhar and other Afghan provinces uncovered major failings in US and Afghan investigations of civilian deaths, injuries, and property damage – notably