VOA News Ayaz Gul June 24, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Fierce fighting has erupted in eastern Afghanistan after militants linked to Islamic State staged coordinated overnight attacks on Afghan security forces’ outposts and civilian areas, officials said Friday. The clashes in the district of Kot in Nangahar province continued into the morning, leaving at least 30 IS militants
Press TV June 22, 2016 Iran’s mission to the United Nations has expressed concern over a rise in the activities of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in neighboring Afghanistan. Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, called attention to a United Nations report which has found that armed conflict in Afghanistan currently stands at its highest level since 2001.
KABUL, June 19 (Xinhua) — The unmanned planes have proved deadly weapons in the war on terror in Afghanistan as 31 anti-government armed insurgents including Taliban and fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group have been killed since Saturday, officials said Sunday. In drone strike against Taliban militants, eight Taliban fighters including a group
KABUL, June 14 (Xinhua) — A total of 117 militants were killed amid military operations launched by Afghan security forces within the last 24 hours, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “Afghan security and defense forces conducted several military and cleanup operations over the past 24 hours, killing 117 militants, wounding 50 and detaining
Wall Street Journal: The Taliban are active on a variety of media platforms. They recently began releasing audio files with songs and news updates, and launched a smartphone app for their Voice of Jihad website, available in multiple languages. Their videos, once grainy, are sleek and widely shared. The Taliban’s digital revamp has coincided with the
Press TV June 13, 2016 More than a dozen members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in operations by Afghan security forces against the extremists in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar. In a statement released on Sunday, the Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that the operations were carried out in the
KABUL, June 12 (Xinhua) — Up to 46 militants had been killed in clashes with security forces and airstrikes across Afghanistan within day, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Sunday. “Over the past 24 hours, Afghan security and defense forces conducted several military and cleanup operations, killing 46 militants, wounding 24 and detaining four other
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — Washington’s decision to lift restrictions on U.S. forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan showed that the strategy of former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had failed, an expert said Friday. The Obama administration has decided to give broader authority to the U.S. military commanders to “anticipate situations in which the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 11, 2016 Afghanistan has welcomed Washington’s decision to give the U.S. military greater authority to help Afghan forces battle the Taliban. Defense Ministry spokesman Daulat Waziri told the AFP news agency on June 11 that U.S. forces’ “involvement will increase our capacity in operations on the ground.” Waziri said: “We
Press TV June 11, 2016 The leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has reportedly pledged allegiance to the new Taliban leader in Afghanistan. Zawahri pledged assistance to Haibatullah Akhundzada — the new leader of Taliban — in a 14-minute online audio message on Saturday, the report said. The authenticity of the recording, however,