Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News September 2, 2018 U.S. forces in Afghanistan say they targeted and killed the leader of Islamic State Khorasan Province last month in eastern Afghanistan. ISKP is the branch of IS operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the vicinity. Abu Sayeed Bajaur, also known as Abu Saad Orakzai, is the third ISKP leader
VOA News Jeff Seldin September 1, 2018 Russia is not giving up on efforts to destabilize Afghanistan and drive divisions between the United States and its coalition partners, according to the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in the country. The commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and of Operation Resolute Support, General John Nicholson, is scheduled to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 31, 2018 Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed five border police and wounded three others in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Attullah Khoghyani, spokesman for Nangarhar’s provincial governor, told RFE/RL that a vehicle was carrying the police officers when the bomb was detonated on August 30 in the
VOA News August 30, 2018 WASHINGTON / NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Since the beginning of 2018, Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province has experienced more than 70 terror attacks, killing 260 and injuring over 500, according to an Afghan watchdog organization that monitors violence and civilian casualties around the country. A large number of those killings have been the
MOSCOW, August 30 (Sputnik) – Five officers of the Afghan Border Police Force were killed in a roadside mine explosion in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday, Afghan media reported, citing local officials. The incident took place at about 11:30 a.m. local time (07:00 GMT), when a border police car hit the mine
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 26, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A drone strike has killed the leader of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdu Saad Erhabi, along with his nine commanders. The overnight missile attack occurred in the Khogyani district of the troubled eastern Nangarhar province where the terrorist group, locally known as ISK-P, is headquartered. Provincial government
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 24, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban insurgency claimed Friday that U.S. airstrikes killed 16 of its fighters in eastern Afghanistan who were battling militants loyal to the rival Islamic State. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, asserted Friday that Taliban fighters were carrying out attacks against Islamic State bases in eastern provinces
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News August 21, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency issued a statement Tuesday claiming responsibility for what it called a mortar strike on the presidential palace earlier in the day. A barrage of rockets hit Kabul, just as President Ashraf Ghani was on television delivering his address for the Muslim holy
MOSCOW, August 21 (Sputnik) – The Russian Foreign Ministry denied on Tuesday the allegations by the Afghan ambassador in Russia that Moscow was planning to use the Taliban against militants from the Islamic State terrorist group (IS banned in Russia) in Afghanistan. “We paid attention to the recent statement by the Ambassador of the Islamic
WASHINGTON, August 21 (Sputnik) – Rising civilian deaths, severe drought, capability gaps and a resilient insurgency are just some of the factors that are complicating US efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, the Defense Department Inspector General for Operation Freedom’s Sentinel said in a report submitted to Congress. “Civilian deaths reached historically high levels,