Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 20, 2016 Afghan officials say a top commander of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial governor said Mullah Bozorg, a leader of the IS group in Afghanistan, was killed along with seven
The Guardian (UK): Islamic State fighters have been pummelled by US airstrikes and receive little local support, but they maintain a small – and seemingly resilient – stronghold in eastern Afghanistan. The fighters are few but unusually brutal, in keeping with the group’s behaviour elsewhere. They may not be an existential threat to the Afghan state
Tolo News: Afghanistan suffered the worst year so far in its war with the Taliban, resulting in nearly 18,000 deaths from the conflict in 2015. As a result it is ranked number two in the world on the terrorism index, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) said in its latest Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 16, 2016 Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has blown up a vehicle carrying members of the security forces in the capital, Kabul, killing 6 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. The November 16 attack in the Pul-e Mahmood Khan area near the Defense Ministry
Khaama Press: “This guy is a complete maniac. His utter hate towards Muslims will make our job much easier because we can recruit thousands,” Abu Omar Khorasani, a top IS commander in Afghanistan, told Reuters. The remarks by ISIS commander in Afghanistan came as Trump earlier promised to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism just as we won
Tolo News: A Taliban commander who joined the peace process in Sar-e-Pul province two months ago, returned to the insurgent group after killing five public uprising members and taking their weapons. According to local security officials the incident happened on Sunday night. “He had relations with the enemy. He killed five public uprising forces,” said Sayed
Press TV November 5, 2016 Hundreds of people have taken part in a funeral procession for more than 30 civilians, who were killed in an airstrike carried out by the so-called US-led military alliance near the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The funeral was held on Friday for the victims of Thursday’s air raid on the
VOA News | November 2, 2016
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2016 A suicide bomber has killed six people and wounded six others at a meeting of tribal elders in the eastern province of Nangarhar. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the October 31 attack in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor
VOA News / October 26, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan said Wednesday that extremists linked to Islamic State have abducted and massacred at least 30 civilians in a remote central region. The overnight bloodshed near the capital of the mountainous Ghor province is alarming for local officials because it is the first known IS activity