By Ayaz Gul VOA News | May 12, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bombing of a funeral in an eastern province and a militant raid on a hospital in the capital, Kabul, have killed around 40 people and injured scores of others. The Taliban insurgency quickly denied its involvement in
By Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | May 11, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – At least six members of Afghan National Army were killed, and five others wounded in a Taliban attack in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan Sunday night, according to Afghan ministry of defense. However, a government source who did not want to be named said
Amin Alemi Press TV May 10, 2020 According to the annual report of the US Defence Department, the US military has killed 108 Afghans and wounded another 75 civilians during its military operations in 2019. The tally has changed little since the previous year’s report, but civilian deaths in Afghanistan again eclipsed those in Syria
Tolo News: Taliban’s relations with other terrorist groups “continue to be close and mutually beneficial which is against the spirit of the peace agreement the group had signed with the United States,” said the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s intelligence agency. “The Taliban’s leadership is still thinking of a comeback to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 9, 2020 The top members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee say an increase in violence in Afghanistan has raised questions about the Taliban’s commitment to an agreement it signed with the United States in February. Representatives Eliot Engel (Democrat-New York), chairman of the committee, and Michael McCaul (Republican-Texas)
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 8, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban said Friday it has conveyed to the United States the insurgent group is not holding an American hostage missing in Afghanistan. U.S. envoy for Afghan peace and reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, has confirmed he called for the release of Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran-turned contractor,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 8, 2020 Taliban militants have killed a provincial police chief and two others in a roadside bomb attack in Khost Province in Afghanistan’s southeast, officials said on May 8. Khost police chief Sayed Ahmad Babazai was leading an operation against the militants in the western part of the province when
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 6, 2020 KABUL — Afghanistan’s intelligence agency says it has busted a joint “terrorist” cell of the Islamic State (IS) group and the Haqqani network, a powerful Taliban faction. Five members of the cell were killed and eight others arrested when security forces stormed two hideouts of the group in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 6, 2020 U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has said the Taliban is not living up to its commitments as militant violence is increasingly threatening a fragile deal signed with Washington this year. After extended talks in Qatar, the Taliban and the United States signed an agreement on February 29 for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 5, 2020 The Taliban has called on the Afghan government to speed up the release of prisoners in order to pave the way for negotiations with the militant movement. A landmark deal signed by the United States and the Taliban on February 29 calls for the Afghan government to release