Ayaz Gul VOA News March 8, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Armed insurgents disguised as doctors attacked Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in the capital, Kabul, Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, the Defense Ministry said. Afghan security forces quickly surrounded the facility, killing all the assailants to end the hours-long siege. Witnesses said the
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 5, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan’s troubled northern Kunduz province say an overnight insurgent attack has left at least six national security force personnel dead. Provincial police chief General Abdul Hamid Hamid told media Sunday a large group of insurgents stormed a security outpost near the provincial capital, also called
Press TV March 4, 2017 At least eight Afghan civilians, including four children, have been killed and 22 more injured in a suspected airstrike in the Bala Boluk district of western Farah Province. Families of the victims said the civilians were hit by an airstrike on Saturday, contradicting a report by the provincial governor spokesman
Tolo News: Afghan security forces dealt a major blow to the Taliban after its fighters on Tuesday launched an offensive on Mehterlam, the provincial capital of Laghman, ANSF officials there said on Thursday. The latest fighting follows increased attacks by the militants on various checkpoints in Mehterlam. Some of the checkpoints initially fell to the Taliban.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 25, 2017 Afghan officials say 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander have been killed in an attack in the northern province of Zawzjan. Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the officers were ambushed on February 24 as they were coming out of a
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and Afghanistan have issued conciliatory statements in an apparent attempt to defuse days of border tensions stemming from charges Afghan soil was used for masterminding last week’s terrorist attacks in Pakistani cities. Pakistani troops have been staging cross-border shelling to target what authorities claimed were camps
Paul Alexander VOA News February 18, 2017 Pakistan has closed its border with Afghanistan, fired a barrage of artillery into its neighbor’s territory and staged a major domestic crackdown on militant groups, reportedly killing more than 100 suspects, in response to the deadliest terror attack in the country in years. It was the latest in
Press TV February 17, 2017 Seventeen Afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists on army security posts in eastern Afghanistan. Ahmad Ali Hazrat, the chief of the provincial council, said on Friday that the attack was carried out in Dih Bala district of Nangarhar province the previous night. Hazrat
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — A total of 16 militants loyal to Islamic State (IS) have been killed and two others injured in the eastern Nangarhar province over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for Nangarhar provincial government said Tuesday. The operations, according to spokesman Attaullah Khogiani, covered some villages in Haska Mina and
Daniel Schearf VOA News February 14, 2017 MOSCOW — Russia is expected to host a second round of international talks on Afghanistan in Moscow on February 15, reports Russia’s TASS news agency, with Afghanistan representatives invited for the first time. Russia says it wants stability and cooperation in the fight against extremists in the region. But