Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 14, 2019 Afghan police say a radio journalist has been killed in the eastern province of Paktia. The body of Nader Shah Sahibzada, a newsreader for Radio Gardez, was found on July 13, a day after he disappeared. Police chief Mohammad Hosman Jahnbaz said it was not immediately clear if
Press TV July 13, 2019 Members of the Taliban militant group have bomb attacked a hotel in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Badghis, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly a dozen more, officials say. According to Interior Ministry’s spokesman Nusrat Rahimi, three Taliban militants assaulted a commercial building housing a hotel in Chawk-e-Pesta neighborhood
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 13, 2019 The NATO-led security alliance in Afghanistan says an American soldier was killed “in action” Saturday, which brings to 11 the number of deaths among the U.S. military this year in the Afghanistan. The Resolute Support mission gave no further details and withheld the name of the service member
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 12, 2019 The U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, says the United States is not “cutting and running” from the war-torn country as it negotiates a peace agreement with the Taliban. Khalilzad’s prerecorded video statement, shown at a conference held at Georgetown University in Washington on July 11, came
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 12, 2019 Afghan officials say at least nine people have been killed, including a pro-government militia commander, after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding party in the country’s east. Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar Province, said on July 12 that the bomber,
AFP: In Kabul, it is hard to miss the late Ahmad Shah Massoud. His bearded visage is painted onto blast walls across the city, his photo adorns the windscreens of pro-government forces. And a central roundabout bears his name. More than 17 years since his assassination, the legendary fighter who battled the Soviets and the Taliban
Press TV July 11, 2019 Nearly 18 years since the US has invaded Afghanistan and almost 16 years after it attacked Iraq, the majorities of American military veterans and the public believe the two wars were “not worth fighting,” a new poll shows. According to the survey, by the Pew Research Center, whose results were published
By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal July 11, 2019 Sufi Muhammad, a radical Pakistani cleric who waged war against foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan, has died. Family members said the pro-Taliban cleric died on the morning of July 11 in a hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar. He is due to be buried in his home
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 11, 2019 A premature withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan would be “a strategic mistake,” U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top military officer said on July 11. General Mark Milley, currently the Army’s chief of staff and nominee to head the joint chiefs of staff, told a
By Ayaz Gul VOA News July 10, 2019 ISLAMABAD – U.S. President Donald Trump will host Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, at the White House on July 22 for official talks aimed at “creating conditions” for an “enduring partnership” and cooperation to secure a peaceful South Asia. The White House said Wednesday that that the