Tolo News: Ahmad Zia Massoud, President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Representative on Reform and Good Governance, in an interview with TOLO news said that there are certain circles that do not want Taliban to be suppressed in military operations. Massoud said that these circles in collusion with the Taliban do not let the security forces move from
Bakhtar News Agency: Kabul (BNA) While Taliban have being accused by international sources and organizations for using children in battlefields, recently the national defense ministry troops released 35 civilians from the captivity of notorious Taliban in Helmand province. According to BNA report, recently the forces of national defense ministry conducting a special operation in Nad Ali district
Khaama Press: The Afghan intelligence operatives thwarted a coordinated suicide car bombing plot in the provincial capital of southern Kandahar province. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said four groups of militants comprised of 26 insurgents were detained by the intelligence operatives in connection to the attack plot. A statement by NDS said the groups were looking
Khaama Press: Five Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a clash and bomb blast near North Waziristan near Afghan border.According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Pakistani army’s media wing, four soldiers including an officer were killed in a clash with armed men in Shawal area of North Waziristan on Saturday.“Today ground forces surrounded a group
Khaama Press: A distressing video has emerged from the northwestern Badghis province of Afghanistan which purportedly shows horrific torture of a tribal elder by the Taliban militants before he is executed.Local police officials have confirmed that the tribal elder Haji Allah Dad was recently captured by the Taliban militants after he visited the Taliban-controlled area. Click
The New York Times: After his return to Afghanistan from exile, in 1986, Azizullah Royesh immediately became a tireless advocate of education as a bridge over the divisions that have made his country a battleground for decades. Click here to read more (external link).
The Washington Post: The last time Ramzan Ali saw his 9-year-old daughter alive was the day he put her in a van, along with her aunt and five other people from their Afghan village. They were headed for the Pakistani city of Quetta, where the little girl, Shukria, was going to spend time with her ailing
Press TV December 20, 2015 Afghan officials say unidentified armed men have abducted five civilians, including a woman and a child, who were traveling on a highway in the country’s eastern province of Ghazni. Khaliqdad Akbari, chairman of the provincial council, said on Sunday that the civilians were traveling en route from the Malistan district
VOA News December 13, 2015 Officials in northwestern Pakistan say a bomb blast ripped through a busy clothing market Sunday, killing at least 23 people and wounding about 55 others. The explosion happened in Parachinar, the administrative center of the semi-autonomous Kurram tribal district on the Afghan border. Amjad Ali Khan, the political administrator of
Kabul (AFP) – West of the Afghan city of Maidan Shahr is a 40-kilometre stretch of paved highway known as “Death Road”, where drivers say the country’s ethnic Hazara minority are slaughtered by militants “like sheep and cows”. Click here to read more (external link).