1TV: The United States dropped 7,423 munitions in Afghanistan in 2019, the highest number recorded in any year over the last one decade, according to US Air Force data. US aircraft in 2018 dropped 7,362 bombs and other munitions, which had previously been the most munitions dropped in a year since 2009, when 4,147 weapons were
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 28, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan say a pre-dawn Taliban attack in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 13 policemen. The attack comes as the insurgent group is engaged in days of talks with the United States on a possible reduction in hostilities to advance their stalled peace process.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 28, 2020 Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of the crew killed when a military aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. The Bombardier E-11A, used for military communications, went down in a snowy part of eastern Afghanistan on
Jane’s Defence Weekly: Afghanistan is to receive an undisclosed number of Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to help replace its ageing Russian-built inventory and to enhance its air mobility capabilities, the US government disclosed in late January. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Hasib Quwai Markaz, a man who has been on the wanted list of the Ministry of Interior Affairs for the past few months, in a social media video posted on Monday claims that the country’s intelligence apparatus – the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – is involved in targeted killings in Kabul and that
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 27, 2020 A plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27 but details about the incident remain unclear. A Taliban spokesman says that the plane was a U.S. military aircraft. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a U.S. Air Force plane crashed in the Ghazni Province, which sits in the foothills
Press TV January 26, 2020 Afghan government forces have killed more than 50 militants in multiple operations against the Taliban in different provinces of the war-wracked country. Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the security forces had conducted 13 ground offensives and 12 aerial attacks in nine provinces, adding that 51 “terrorists” had been
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 26, 2020 Afghan officials say at least 20 people have been wounded after unknown assailants threw grenades at a wedding party in the southestern province of Khost. Investigation are under way into the incident that occurred in the town of Alishir, provincial government spokesman Talib Mangal said on January 26.
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 26, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Angry residents Sunday rallied in a northern province of Afghanistan to protest the killing of at least seven civilians in an Afghan air force airstrike. Protesters, carrying bodies of the victims, said three women and three children belonging to the same family were among those killed
Tolo News: Amnesty International on Friday, in a message aimed at the US and the Taliban, stated that any potential agreement on the reduction in violence must include a commitment by both sides to abide by the laws of war and end all attacks on civilians. Click here to read more (external link). Related Qatar Talks