Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 11, 2018 The Afghan military has increased its vetting of local forces working with U.S. troops in order to minimize insider attacks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said. Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon on September 11 that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani brought up the issue when the two met
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 11, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A suicide blast Tuesday in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province killed at least 25 people and wounded about 60 others. A provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told VOA the bombing happened in the remote Mohmand Dara district. He anticipated the casualty toll to rise. Khogyani said the victims
Reuters: European countries must not rush to repatriate Afghan refugees to their increasingly insecure homeland or blame their community for isolated crimes such as recent deadly attacks in Germany and in France, the top U.N. refugee official [Filippo Grandi] said on Monday. “There is a lot of pressure for Afghans to return. Our advice is to carry
Al Jazeera: In an effort to encourage recruitment, the government is preparing an entire town of secure housing for female police officers and their families near Kabul.
Ariana: Fifty-three journalists have been killed in Afghanistan since 2015, a media advocacy group, NAI said on Monday. NAI chief Abdul Mujib Khilwatgar told reporters that they record death of 13 journalists on average each year in the National Unity Government and that overall 53 journalists have been killed in last four years in the country. Click
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 10, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Islamist Taliban in northern Afghanistan has captured a strategically important district near the border with Turkmenistan and threatened a provincial capital, killing dozens of Afghan troops in a series of battlefield attacks. During the past three days, the insurgents stepped up battlefield attacks across the country
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 10, 2018 KABUL – The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people. In the September 9 attack, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself, killing
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 9, 2018 KABUL — A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has blown himself up near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people, officials say. Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai told RFE/RL that more than 20 people were wounded
The New York Times: Seventeen years into the war in Afghanistan, American officials routinely issue inflated assessments of progress that contradict what is actually happening there. Click here to read more (external link). Related ‘We are losing’: Trump and his top advisors aren’t publicly admitting how bad things are in Afghanistan Afghanistan, the endless war U.S.
Tolo News: On Friday evening President Ashraf Ghani said at a meeting with representatives from the Dasht-e-Barchi community that Kabul will be divided into four security zones and special attention will be given to Dasht-e-Barchi’s security. Former chief of the National Directorate of Security Amrullah Saleh, however, told TOLOnews that dividing the capital into security zones will