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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 22, 2018 A soldier in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission was killed and two others wounded on October 22 by an apparent insider attack in the western province of Herat. A statement from the NATO mission’s headquarters in Kabul said: “Initial reports indicate the attack was committed by a member
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 22, 2018 Senior Afghan officials have praised voters who cast ballots in weekend parliamentary elections that were plagued by violence and organizational problems, saying the turnout shows that Afghans are rejecting the ideology of Taliban militants. “The Taliban wanted to build a stream of blood, but the Taliban was defeated
VOA News October 22, 2018 The U.S. army has confirmed that a brigadier general was one of two Americans wounded in an attack last week in Afghanistan that fatally wounded a powerful Afghan police chief. U.S. Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley, in charge of NATO’s military advisory mission in Afghanistan, was shot when a gunman
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 20, 2018 KABUL — Afghan officials are counting ballots in the country’s long-delayed parliamentary elections that were marred by deadly attacks and chaotic scenes at polling stations hit by technical and organizational problems. Because of disruptions during the October 20 polling process, voting was extended one day in some constituencies
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 20, 2018 KABUL — Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections were marred by deadly attacks and descended into chaos with many polling stations hit by technical and organizational problems Police said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a polling station in the capital, Kabul, on October 20, killing at least 10
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 20, 2018 KABUL — Afghan voters go to the polls on October 20 for parliamentary elections that are testing the government’s ability to provide security across the country. Originally scheduled for 2015, the vote has been delayed for three years amid disputes over electoral reforms and because of the instability
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 19, 2018 Parliamentary elections in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, due to be held on October 20, will be delayed by one week following the assassination of the powerful provincial police commander, Haroon Chakhansori, a spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, has tweeted on his official account. “In accordance
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 18, 2018 The police chief and intelligence head of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar have been killed in a shooting attack, officials say, in a major blow to the West-backed government in Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the October 18 assault that came just two days before parliamentary
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 17, 2018 An Afghan candidate has been killed in an explosion in his office in the southern province of Helmand, officials said, as violence escalates ahead of the October 20 parliamentary elections. Abdul Jabar Qahraman was killed in the explosion of a bomb apparently placed under a sofa in his