VOA News May 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded mosque being used as a voter registration center in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 17 worshipers and wounding 33 others The attack came hours after unknown gunmen in a northern Afghan region kidnapped seven engineers, mostly Indian nationals. The mosque bombing occurred
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 30, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A twin suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul Monday killed at least 26 people, including nine journalists. At least 50 other people were wounded, including five journalists. Islamic State through its “Amaq” news agency claimed responsibility for the deadliest ever assault on media workers in Afghanistan. Local
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 29, 2018 A group of children have set off an unexploded mortar round in a residential area in eastern Afghanistan, causing an explosion that killed a woman and two children. Attahullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, says another seven children were wounded
Press TV April 28, 2018 The Taliban militant group has seized a district center in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz and launched a bomb attack on an army base in the southern province of Helmand, killing at least six people, officials say. According to Sayyed Assadullah Sadat, a provincial council member in Kunduz, the militants
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 28, 2018 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, has slammed the Taliban for pushing ahead with its so-called annual spring offensive, despite his “most generous” offer of peace talks. The Taliban on Wednesday unleashed its new military campaign, code named “Al Khandaq” or the Trench. The action has since led
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, April 28 (Xinhua) — At least six people including the attacker have been confirmed dead and 10 others injured as a suicide bomber blew an explosive-laden car next to a military base in Nad Ali district of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, spokesman for provincial government, Omar Zawak said. “A
William Gallo VOA News April 23, 2018 The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan dropped more bombs during the first quarter of 2018 than it has in the same period in any of the last 15 years, according to Pentagon data. The increased bombing is the latest evidence the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan is significantly intensifying since
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 23, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say the latest Taliban and Islamic State attacks have killed 19 people, mostly government security forces. Taliban insurgents attacked a registration center for potential voters late Sunday in the northwestern Badghis province, killing nine Afghan National Army soldiers and wounding two others. A senior
Press TV April 22, 2018 Daesh Takfiri terrorist group is growing in Afghanistan as thousands of foreign troops have apparently failed to restore security 17 years after the United States and its allies invaded the country under the guise of the so-called war on terror. Daesh, which has been behind several past bombings in Kabul, claimed responsibility for a deadly
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 22, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber struck a distribution center for Afghan voters’ identification cards Sunday morning in Kabul, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 100 others. Interior Ministry spokesman Najeeb Danish told VOA that people were waiting in line outside the center to get their Tazkira,