Tolo News: At least five people were killed and seven others were wounded in a magnetic IED explosion in the north of Kabul on Tuesday afternoon. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Click here to read more (external link). Other Security News Taliban Insurgents Shoot Woman in Badghis
Tolo News: A magnetic IED blast targeted a bus carrying the employees of Khurshid TV, a private media outlet, in the fifth street of Taimani in Kabul’s police district 4 (PD4) at around 5:30 pm on Sunday evening. Two people, including a passerby and driver of the bus, were killed and four others, including three employees
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 3, 2019 The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says more than 1,500 civilians were killed or wounded in July. According to a report issued by UNAMA on August 3, the number of documented civilian casualties is the highest of any month since May 2017. UNAMA said the main
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 31, 2019 Security officials in western Afghanistan say at least 34 people were killed and around 17 others injured after a passenger bus was hit by a roadside bomb on a highway between the cities of Herat and Kandahar. A provincial official says the bomb tore through the bus, which
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 30, 2019 The United Nations says more Afghan civilians were killed by government and NATO-led troops than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the first half of 2019. The U.N.’s mission in Afghanistan released a report Monday that showed a combined 717 civilians were killed by government and
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 28, 2018 KABUL — A bomb has targeted the Kabul office of President Ashraf Ghani’s running mate, Amrullah Saleh — wounding the vice presidential candidate on the first day of campaigning for Afghanistan’s September 28 presidential election. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said two people were killed and
Press TV July 27, 2019 US special envoy to “peace talks” with Afghan Taliban militants says they have vowed not to let future Afghanistan be turned into terrorists’ hotbed, an ostensibly awkward pledge from a group whose terror attacks ceaselessly kill both civilians and government troops across the militant-infested country. “The world needs to be sure
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 25, 2019 KABUL — More than 50 people have been killed in a wave of attacks across three Afghan provinces, including the capital, Kabul, despite renewed momentum in peace efforts to put an end to the country’s nearly 18-year war. Three blasts in eastern Kabul on July 25 left
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 22, 2019 Afghan officials say a joint air strike by U.S. and Afghan forces has killed at least seven civilians. The incident occurred during a military operation in the Baraki Barak district of the eastern province of Logar on July 21. Hasib Stanekzai, a member of the provincial council, said
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2019 Officials in Afghanistan say women and children were among 10 civilians killed in separate air strikes by security forces late on July 19. In one incident, Abdol Aziz Beg, head of a provincial council in the western Badghis Province, said that insurgents had surrounded an army base in