Ayaz Gul VOA News April 8, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say the latest military-led offensives, backed by coalition air power, have killed nearly 100 Taliban insurgents and injured dozens more in a bid to reclaim full control of a volatile district in western Badghis province. Hundreds of heavily armed insurgents assaulted Bala Murghab last
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 7, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has established a new leadership council comprising government officials, opposition politicians and civil society representatives that will manage national peace efforts and put together an “effective” team of negotiators for possible talks with the Taliban insurgency. Addressing the inaugural meeting of what is
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 6, 2019 An Afghan official says twin explosions in the country’s east have killed at least three people and wounded 10 others. Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar Province, said those killed in the blasts in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, on April 6 were civilians. It was
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 4, 2019 Afghan officials say a Taliban attack in the northwestern province of Badghis has killed at least 20 government soldiers and police. Abdul Aziz Baig, head of the Badghis Provincial Council, said Taliban fighters stormed several security checkpoints outside the government headquarters in the district of Bala Murghab during
1TV: US President Donald Trump said that the war in Afghanistan was “unfortunate” and “ridiculous” as he met with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on Tuesday. Trump, however, said that a lot of positive things are happening in Afghanistan recently. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan Politicians Share Views
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 2, 2019 KABUL — The U.S. envoy seeking a peace deal with the Taliban has played down recent tensions with the Western-backed Kabul government, telling RFE/RL that he hopes 2019 will be the “year of peace.” In an interview in the Afghan capital on April 1, Zalmay Khalilzad said
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 2, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say a military-led counteroffensive has evicted the Taliban from a strategically important district in northeastern Badakhshan province, inflicting heavy casualties on retreating insurgents. The Taliban had late last week overrun Arghanj Khwa, located in the vicinity of the provincial capital of Faizabad, disrupting links
Ariana: Gen. Scott Miller, the Commander of U.S. and NATO Forces in Afghanistan has walked out of a security meeting in Kabul in protest to the presence of Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib. Recently, U.S. cut all ties with Mohib over controversial remarks he made on a visit to the United State last month. Mohib claimed
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 31, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A day after Afghanistan’s First Vice President, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, narrowly survived an assassination attempt, the Taliban vowed Sunday the former warlord remains one of their prime targets. Officials in Afghanistan have confirmed Dostum’s convoy came under a Taliban attack Saturday evening in the northern Balkh
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 30, 2019 Afghanistan’s controversial Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has escaped unhurt from a suspected Taliban attack that killed one of his bodyguards, police said. A regional police spokesman said attackers ambushed Dostum’s convoy on March 30 on the way from Mazar-e Sharif, a city in Balkh Province, to