Tolo News: The Pentagon is preparing to punish specific members of the U.S special operations forces and others involved in a bungled airstrike on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – or Doctors without Borders – hospital in northern Kunduz province. The airstrike that was carried out in October last year during the Taliban’s siege on Kunduz city –
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 14, 2016 An Afghan commission says more than 700 civilians have been killed or injured in the last nine months in the southern province of Helmand. Since the end of March last year, at least 232 people have died and at least 502 have been injured, the Afghan Independent Human
Press TV / January 14, 2016 The United States has dropped over 23,000 bombs on six Muslim-majority countries in 2015, according to new statistics, an illustration of how much damage Washington inflicts on the Muslim world. The Council of Foreign Relations (CRF), a New York-based think tank, has estimated that 23,144 bombs were dropped last year by
Khaama Press: Preliminary reports suggest a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) has been detonated in Lashkargah city. Provincial governor spokesman Omar Zwak confirms the incident and said at least one person has been injured in the attack which was carried out by a car bomb. No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 13, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Officials in eastern Afghanistan said a gun and bomb attack Wednesday near the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad killed seven security personnel and wounded 10 people, including three civilians. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the assault. Afghan police and witnesses said the attack began with several massive explosions
Press TV / January 12, 2016 At least three schoolgirls have lost their lives and eight others sustained injuries in a mortar attack by the Taliban militant group in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost. The Afghan Ministry of Education announced in a statement that a mortar round slammed into a primary school in the Bak district
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 11, 2016 At least three Afghan children have been killed after a mortar bomb hit a school in eastern Afghanistan. The Afghan Education Ministry said in a statement on January 11 that the attack in Khost Province also wounded eight students at the secondary school. There was no claim of
Khyber News: Three people have been killed and two others wounded in a bomb explosion in eastern Nangarhar province. The incident took place close to a school in Mirzakhil area of Kama District around 11:00 am on Sunday. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: Qari Saifuddin Sadat, chief of the High Peace Council (HPC) for northern Samangan province has been gunned down close to his residence in the provincial capital Aibak. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say security forces have killed all four heavily armed assailants who have been holed up since Sunday night in a building near India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told VOA at least one security personnel