RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 2, 2017 Afghan officials have arrested four suspects in the killing last month of five female airport employees and their driver in the southern province of Kandahar. Security officials brought three of the suspects to a press conference in Kandahar late on January 1, saying the men had admitted to
Khaama Press: A senior general of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces sustained injuries in a roadside bomb explosion in central Logar province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed the vehicle of the commander of 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan National Army struck a roadside bomb during an operation in Charkh district. Click
Press TV December 28, 2016 An Afghan lawmaker has been wounded in a bomb attack in a crowded area of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. The blast took place near the 6th police district and a mosque in Dasht-e-Barchi area in western Kabul on Wednesday morning apparently targeting the vehicle of legislator Fakuri Biheshti, who was
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 25, 2016 At least two Afghan civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in the eastern province of Laghman early on December 25, a local official said. The incident took place near a shrine in Mihterlam, the provincial capital, said Sarhadi Zwak, a spokesman for the Laghman provincial governor. There
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say gunmen have shot dead six government workers, including five women in southern Kandahar province. The early morning attack occurred when unknown assailants ambushed and sprayed with bullets a minivan transporting the female Kandahar airport security staff to work. The deadly attack also left the
Khaama Press: The provincial governor and mayor of southern Zabul province escaped an ambush by unknown gunmen earlier today. According to the local government officials, the incident took place on Zabul-Kandahar highway as the two top officials were on their way to Safa district. Provincial governor’s spokesman Gul Islam Siyal confirmed the incident and said governor
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 3, 2016 Taliban militants have reportedly hanged an Afghan student they accused of involvement in the killing of a Taliban leader. Afghan official Abdul Rahman Mangal said on December 3 that Kabul Polytechnic University student Faizul Rahman Wardak was killed in the village of Sewaka, about 60 kilometers outside the
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — About 23 Afghan civilians had been killed by militants during the military conflict in a restive district in the country’s southern province of Kandahar within two days, the provincial police chief said on Friday. “Hundreds of militants stormed remote Nash district in an effort to capture the district control
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VOA News November 25, 2016 Afghan officials say at least five people were killed and 27 others wounded in a series of explosions Friday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. Local officials told VOA the explosions were from improvised explosive devices. They said two police officers and some children were among the casualties in