RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 19, 2018 Three people were killed when a motorcycle bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan on March 19 outside a rally being held by a veteran warlord who made peace with the government last year, officials said. At least eight more people were wounded in the explosion. The former commander, Gulbuddin
Press TV March 18, 2018 An attacker has set off a grenade among a group of university students in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing himself and wounding five students. On Sunday, the assailant, dressed in a school uniform, struck a neighborhood dominated by ethnic Hazaras, a Shia Muslim minority frequently targeted by extremist groups. Nasir Nadery, the district
VOA News / March 17, 2018: Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and land mines kill and injure thousands of Afghans every year in Afghanistan. One of its victims is 12-year-old Noorzya, a resident of eastern Nangarhar province, who stepped on an IED and lost her legs. It has not been determined who planted the mine that exploded
Press TV March 17, 2018 At least three civilians have been killed in an attack during which an assailant blew up a bomb-laden vehicle in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Officials said two people were also injured in the attack, which was apparently targeting the personnel of a foreign contractor company. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danesh
Tolo News: A mural of slain Hamida Barmaki, who was killed in a Hizb-e-Islami suicide bombing six years ago, was painted on a T-wall close to the home of the group’s leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Sunday. Two masked men on Monday vandalized the mural of a victim, killed in a Hizb-e-Islami group bombing, by throwing white
Tolo News: A mural of slain Hamida Barmaki, who was killed in a Hizb-e-Islami suicide bombing six years ago, was painted on a T-wall close to the home of the group’s leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Sunday. The mural was painted by Kabul’s Artlords to mark International Women’s Day and to reflect crimes being carried out in the country. Click
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 11 (Xinhua) — Two Afghan civilians were wounded after NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces opened fire in southern province of Kandahar on Sunday, a local official said. “Initially an explosion went off near a mobile patrol of coalition forces Sunday morning near Kandahar airport. The foreign security force secured the area and
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