Ayaz Gul VOA News March 9, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A pre-dawn Taliban attack in northeastern Afghanistan has killed at least 17 government security forces and wounded many more. The fighting erupted in the mountainous Khawaja Ghar district of Takhar province where insurgents assaulted an Afghan army base. District chief Mohammad Omar told VOA scores of insurgents
Khaama Press: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the detained individuals have been identified as Ehsanullah son of Karimullah and Omaar son of Abdul Hadi. A statement by NDS said the Ehsanullah is a senior member of the military commission of the ISIS terrorist group while Omar was a member of the recruitment commission of the
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Friday near a NATO convoy in the capital, Kabul, killing a six-year old girl and wounding 14 other people. Police spokesman Baser Mujahid told VOA the attack happened near a foreign military base on a main road
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 24, 2018 Afghan officials said a suicide bomber has killed two security personnel and wounded seven in an attack in the diplomatic area of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the attack occurred around 8:15 a.m.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 22, 2018 At least 10 people have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni and Zabul provinces, officials say. “Unfortunately, eight local police were killed and another one was injured,” said Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor, after a large number of Taliban militants attacked
VOA News February 21, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A global watchdog is calling on Afghan authorities and the U.S. military to promptly investigate allegations local forces summarily executed civilians during recent counter-Taliban operations in the southern Kandahar province. The alleged abuses occurred from January 31 to February 1 when Afghan special forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, undertook
February 20, 2018 RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan An explosion has killed at least three tribal elders and wounded two in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province, while at least nine police were killed in attacks elsewhere in the war-wracked country, officials say. The three tribal elders were killed when a bomb went off on February 20 in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 19, 2018 The bodies of nine civilians abducted by militants early last year have been found in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, an Afghan official and tribal elders said on February 19. Sayed Rahman Mohmand, the governor of Kot district, said the bodies, including three of tribal leaders, were found
Tolo News: February 15 marks the anniversary of the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan after a bloody nine-year war. The war lasted nine years and in that time an estimated one million civilians, including children, were killed, along with 90,000 Mujahideen fighters, more than 20,000 Afghan troops and over 14,000 Soviet soldiers. Click here
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 15, 2018 The number of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan declined last year but the number of deaths from air strikes was on the rise, the United Nations says. The number of civilians killed and wounded decreased by 9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, the