Noor Zahid VOA News January 15, 2017 Within hours after the Afghan government said it successfully completed a three-month-long cleanup operation against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in a remote eastern district of the country, IS conducted a series of attacks and kidnappings in other areas. On Sunday, 12 teachers and two staff members
Press TV January 14, 2017 Militants of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have raided a district in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, setting fire to some 60 houses there. Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said people had fled their homes before the Daesh attack in Kot District on Friday, local media reported. There have
Mirwais Bezhan VOA News January 7, 2017 A group of 150 women in the northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan have taken up arms to fight Taliban and Islamic State militants. Some of the women, who live in the violence-plagued districts of Qoosh Tapa and Darz A’ab, say Taliban and IS militants killed the male members
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 6, 2017 An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed at least seven coal miners in northern Afghanistan, revising the death toll which was earlier put at 13. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that the miners were
Noor Zahid VOA News January 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — Instead of a slowdown in fighting during Afghanistan’s harsh winter, government security forces say they will press their operations against the Taliban and Islamic State group despite heavy snow and bitter cold. “Taliban and other terrorist groups will not be allowed to claim territory over the next
Press TV January 3, 2017 People in western Afghanistan have staged a massive protest against growing sectarian attacks on Shia Muslims by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. About 2,000 demonstrators, holding pictures of Shia Muslims killed in recent terrorist attacks, marched on the governor’s office in the city of Herat on Tuesday. The protesters chanted slogans
Press TV December 28, 2016 An Afghan lawmaker has been wounded in a bomb attack in a crowded area of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. The blast took place near the 6th police district and a mosque in Dasht-e-Barchi area in western Kabul on Wednesday morning apparently targeting the vehicle of legislator Fakuri Biheshti, who was
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 27, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Russia, China and Pakistan bowed to Afghan complaints Tuesday, announcing after talks in Moscow that Kabul will be invited to participate in future meetings on the threat posed by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan. Afghan officials had objected to being left out of the three-way talks
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 26, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Top Foreign Ministry officials from China, Pakistan and Russia will meet in Moscow on Tuesday to review what they perceive as a “gradually growing” threat to their frontiers posed by Islamic State extremists in Afghanistan. “This is an existing forum for undertaking informal discussions on issues
Noor Zahid VOA News December 20, 2016 Hundreds of local villagers freed from Islamic State control in a remote eastern Afghan district are signing up to join a militia to fight IS, provincial authorities said. Officials in eastern Nangarhar province said hundreds of men have waited in long lines to become part of the militia.