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
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 16, 2018 Afghan government forces have pushed back the Taliban from Farah city, the capital of Farah Province in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border, Afghan officials say. The attack, the first major assault targeting a provincial capital since the Taliban announced its annual spring offensive, began early on
Press TV May 9, 2018 Militants have engaged in a gunfight with police after setting off at least three explosions in two districts of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. At least six people were wounded in the violence, Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Wahidullah Majroh, said on Wednesday. He added that the casualty toll would likely go up.
William Gallo VOA News May 7, 2018 An Afghan Air Force attack on an open-air religious gathering killed 30 children and wounded 51 more last month, according to a United Nations investigation published Monday. At least six adults also were killed and 20 wounded when Afghan helicopters attacked the site in Kunduz province, where a