Press TV / August 11, 2017 An air raid conducted by foreign forces in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of at least 16 civilians in the eastern province of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan. According to TOLO News, the air raid hit a civilian vehicle in Haska Mina district late on Thursday. Women and children were among
Tolo News: Despite six days having passed since the massacre in Mirza Olang valley of Sayyad district of northern Sar-e-Pul province, the security forces have not yet launched military operations to clear the area of insurgents. The residents of Mirza Olang were blaming the local police and public unrest forces of “negligence” over the massacre in
Press TV August 7, 2017 Militants have massacred dozens of civilians, mostly Shia Hazaras, in “a brutal, inhumane way” after attacking a village in a remote area of Afghanistan’s northern province of Sar-e Pul, officials and locals say. The militants, whose identity was not immediately known, raided a security outpost in the Mirzawalang area of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 7, 2017 Afghan authorities in Kabul are increasing security in the area of the capital that houses foreign embassies and government offices after a series of attacks killed hundreds of people in the city and across the country. Salem Ehsaas, the acting police chief of Kabul, told the Reuters news
Press TV August 6, 2017 The Taliban militants have taken control of a key area in northern Afghanistan after heavy clashes that claimed the lives of at least seven security forces, a provincial official says. Zabi Amani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the militant group launched a series of coordinated attacks in the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 3, 2017 The father of one of the Afghan teenagers who made headlines when trying to attend a robotics competition in the United States has died in this week’s suicide attack on a mosque in western Afghanistan, her family says. Fatema Qaderyan and her teammates competed in the FIRST Global
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 2, 2017 An Afghan hospital official says at least 33 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, many of them critically, by a suicide bomber and gunman who attacked a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the western city of Herat on August 1. Authorities said a suicide bomber detonated
VOA News / July 29, 2017 SYDNEY — An inquiry is looking into allegations an Australian Special Forces soldier shot dead a man in Afghanistan then planted a firearm on the body to make it look like the trooper had acted in self-defense. The probe is part of a far-reaching investigation of Australia’s elite fighting units.
Hasib Danish Alikozai Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat VOA News | July 25, 2017 WASHINGTON/NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Ten-year-old Madina was collecting firewood with her friends Thursday in eastern Afghanistan when a roadside bomb went off and seriously injured her. “We were on a hill close to my home, collecting firewood, when I heard a loud sound underneath my feet,”
Press TV July 24, 2017 At least 35 people have been killed when heavily-armed Taliban militants launched a deadly attack on a hospital in Afghanistan’s central Ghor province. “When the Taliban entered the hospital they killed 35, all civilians,” Shah Hussain Murtazawi a presidential spokesman confirmed on Monday, without specifying if they were patients or