1TV: An explosion went off in a mosque in Afghan capital Kabul on Friday. The blast happened in Imam Zaman mosque in Dasht-e-Barchi, west of the city. Witnesses said that the blast was triggered by a suicide bomber and it targeted worshippers. At least two deaths, five injured people were taken to hospitals following the incident,
Press TV / October 17, 2017 The Taliban militants have launched coordinated attacks on police forces in two neighboring provinces in southern Afghanistan, leaving at least 70 people dead and nearly 170 others injured. Militants with explosives-laden vehicles had initially attacked a police training center in Gardez, the capital of Paktia Province in southeast Afghanistan,
Press TV / October 14, 2017 An Afghan lawmaker says more than a dozen civilians have been killed in a recent US drone strike, which was said to be aimed at a militant targets in the country’s eastern province of Kunar. On Friday, residents from the Chawki district of Kunar Province held a gathering to pay tribute
Press TV October 12, 2017 The United Nations says Afghan civilian casualties from American and Afghan airstrikes have risen more than 50 percent since last year. UN investigators said in a quarterly report on Thursday that as of the end of September, at least 205 civilians had been killed and 261 wounded this year in
Press TV September 29, 2017 An assailant has detonated an explosive device outside a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least six people. General Salim Almas, the criminal investigative director of Kabul city, said on Friday that the assailant, who was posing as a shepherd, detonated the explosives some 140 meters from the mosque while
Press TV / September 28, 2017 A missile “malfunction” during a US airstrike on the Afghan capital Kabul has resulted in several civilian casualties, NATO says. The strike was reportedly launched in response to rocket attacks that had targeted Kabul’s airport and surrounding areas several hours after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and NATO Secretary General
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 27, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg have pledged continued support for Afghanistan during a surprise visit to Kabul. The two vowed at a September 27 joint conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to do everything so the country “doesn’t again become a safe
Press TV / September 24, 2017 Taliban militants have targeted a military convoy of Danish NATO forces in the Afghan capital of Kabul. There have been no reports of casualties among the foreign forces but at least three civilians have sustained injuries. Afghan officials said the incident took place early on Sunday when a bomber
VOA News / September 18, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s branch of the Islamic State terrorist group has expanded its extremist activities to the country’s seven provinces, as opposed to only one province last year, a United Nations report revealed Monday. While fighting over territorial control between Afghan forces and Taliban insurgents escalated in
Press TV September 17, 2017 Four people have been killed in a powerful explosion at a mobile phone market in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Khost. Khost provincial police chief Faizullah Khairat said the blast on Sunday was caused by a “remote controlled bomb.” He said the explosion “happened at around noon in a market where people go to download