VOA News June 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Associated Press is quoting an anonymous Trump administration official as saying the Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan to assist the South Asian nation in its fight against a renascent Taliban insurgency. That number is similar to previous reports from other Trump administration officials.
Tolo News: Abdul Saboor Sabet, the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Nangarhar claimed on Thursday that Pakistani militia fully supported Daesh in their offensive against the Tora Bora region this week in eastern Nangarhar province. In a trip to Nangarhar’s Chaparhar district on Thursday, Sabet said that Pakistani militia are still backing
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News / June 14, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Islamic State militants captured parts of Afghanistan’s Tora Bora region Tuesday night, after days of heavy fighting with Afghan Taliban and pro-government militias. The remote, mountainous area contains a complex set of caves bordering Pakistan. It became well-known because al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden was cornered
Ayaz Gul VOA News / June 10, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say that a member of Afghan Special Forces turned his gun at U.S. military personnel, killing two of them and wounding two others. The incident happened Saturday in the volatile Achin district, in Nangarhar province, and the assailant was instantly gunned down
Tolo News: Footages obtained by Tolo news reveal that a group of fighters loyal to Daesh are training a number of young men and children in remote area in the north of Feroz Koh, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan’s central regions. Ghor police confirmed the report and said the footages have been prepared
ISLAMABAD, June 7 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s top civil and military leaders on Wednesday “expressed concern on the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan” following a series of recent attacks that killed nearly 200 people. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told diplomats in Kabul on Tuesday that death toll from a deadly truck bombing in Kabul on May
Press TV June 6, 2017 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says the death toll from the deadly bomb blast in the Afghan capital city of Kabul has reached 150, as the country faces more deadly attacks in its major cities. “Over 150 innocent Afghan sons and daughters were killed and more than 300 wounded were brought
VOA News June 1, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan Thursday mourned the victims of a massive truck bomb that blew up Wednesday in the diplomatic section of the country’s capital, killing at least 90 people and wounding more than 400 others. The bomb ripped through the central Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul, home to
Tolo News: A petition has been filed by families of civil war victims, who have pointed fingers at certain factions, including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar-led Hizb-e-Islami, for their involvement in war crimes and called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to prosecute offenders. They called on the ICC to launch an investigation into the crimes
Press TV May 30, 2017 The US Air Force has tripled the number of airstrikes across Afghanistan since last year, according to a spokesman for US and NATO forces in the country. The US military carried out nearly 900 airstrikes against purported Daesh (ISIL) and Taliban positions across Afghan territories between January and April this