Ayaz Gul VOA News March 8, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Armed insurgents disguised as doctors attacked Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in the capital, Kabul, Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, the Defense Ministry said. Afghan security forces quickly surrounded the facility, killing all the assailants to end the hours-long siege. Witnesses said the
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 5, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan’s troubled northern Kunduz province say an overnight insurgent attack has left at least six national security force personnel dead. Provincial police chief General Abdul Hamid Hamid told media Sunday a large group of insurgents stormed a security outpost near the provincial capital, also called
Press TV March 4, 2017 At least eight Afghan civilians, including four children, have been killed and 22 more injured in a suspected airstrike in the Bala Boluk district of western Farah Province. Families of the victims said the civilians were hit by an airstrike on Saturday, contradicting a report by the provincial governor spokesman
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 25, 2017 Afghan officials say 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander have been killed in an attack in the northern province of Zawzjan. Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the officers were ambushed on February 24 as they were coming out of a
MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — Five Afghan civilians, including a child, were wounded in a bomb attack in the eastern Laghman province on Sunday, said the provincial government. “A sticky Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attached to a private vehicle was detonated in Ali Shing district’s bazaar at around midday, injuring five innocent civilians,” it
Michael Hughes: Shortly after President Donald Trump drew national opprobrium for daring to suggest that the United States was not “so innocent” when it came to killing, military forces under his command – as if on cue – killed 18 noncombatants, mostly women and children, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. This latest episode of so-called collateral damage
Press TV February 12, 2017 Nearly two dozen civilians were killed in recent airstrikes by US forces in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an Afghan official says. Jabar Qahraman, Afghanistan’s presidential envoy for security in Helmand, said on Sunday that the airstrikes were carried out against Taliban militants in Sangin district of Helmand during the late hours of
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 11, 2017 ISLAMABAD — A suicide car bombing Saturday killed at least seven people and wounded many others in Afghanistan’s embattled southern province of Helmand, officials said. The Taliban insurgency took responsibility for the bombing, according to a spokesman for the group, who claimed army officers and soldiers were among the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 9, 2017 The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended operations in Afghanistan after gunmen killed six employees helping to deliver emergency relief to a remote northern region hit by heavy snowstorms. The governor of Jowzjan Province said the aid convoy was attacked by suspected Islamic State gunmen. The head
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 8, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Authorities in northern Afghanistan say Islamic State terrorists have killed at least six local employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Jowzjan province government spokesman Reza Ghafoori told VOA Wednesday’s attack occurred in the Qushtipa district and the assailants also took away two ICRC