VOA News Ayaz Gul April 20, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials said the death toll from Tuesday’s Taliban suicide attack in Kabul has risen to at least 64, adding another 347 people were injured. The latest casualty figures indicate the Tuesday attack was the deadliest insurgent strike in the Afghan capital since the Taliban was ousted from
Press TV April 19, 2016 Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari has condemned a terrorist bomb blast in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul that left tens of people dead. In a statement on Tuesday, Jaberi Ansari expressed Iran’s sympathy with the Afghan government and nation and the bereaved families of the victims. He also underlined
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 19, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A group of Taliban insurgents staged a bomb and gun attack in the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 327, according officials. The assault targeted a building, which officials say houses a special unit of the Afghan security force working under
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United Nations said the Afghan conflict has caused nearly 2,000 casualties in the first three months of this year, showing an increase of 2 percent compared to the same period last year. The number includes an increase of 11 percent in civilians wounded – 1,343 – but a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 14, 2016 Taliban militants have killed a police commander and seven other people, including three women, in Afghanistan. Qahar Khurm Aabi, highway police commander in the northern provinces of Takhar and Kunduz, was killed on April 14 in a Taliban ambush along with four of his guards on his way
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 13, 2016 A new U.S. State Department report says Afghanistan’s most pressing human rights problems stem from “widespread violence,” including indiscriminate attacks on civilians by armed insurgent groups and “torture and abuse of detainees by government forces.” The 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on April 13, also
The Independent (UK): I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. I am
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 12, 2016 BALUCHISTAN, PAKISTAN—The Taliban says it has launched its annual spring military offensive in Afghanistan, titled “Omari Operation.” In a statement sent to reporters Tuesday, the Islamist insurgent group promised “large scale attacks on enemy positions, martyrdom-seeking (suicide) and tactical attacks against enemy strongholds and assassination of enemy commanders
KABUL, April 12 (Xinhua) — Civilians often pay high prices in the war-zones, particularly in militancy-plagued Afghanistan as considerable number of the victims of three suicide bombings elsewhere in the country over the past seven days were civilians, according to officials. Since beginning this month, three suicide bombings have rocked Parwan, Kandahar and the eastern
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 11, 2016 At least 12 recruits in the Afghan National Army have been killed and dozens of people wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber who attacked the recruits’ bus near the eastern city of Jalalabad. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri confirmed the death toll in the April 11 suicide