RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 24, 2018 Afghan officials said a suicide bomber has killed two security personnel and wounded seven in an attack in the diplomatic area of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the attack occurred around 8:15 a.m.
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 22, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ministry of defense has announced the creation of a new militia force comprising about 36,000 men to defend areas that military-led operations have cleared of Taliban insurgents. The move comes despite long-running accusations of rights abuses against the existing Afghan Local Police, which consists of local
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 22, 2018 At least 10 people have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni and Zabul provinces, officials say. “Unfortunately, eight local police were killed and another one was injured,” said Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor, after a large number of Taliban militants attacked
February 20, 2018 RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan An explosion has killed at least three tribal elders and wounded two in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province, while at least nine police were killed in attacks elsewhere in the war-wracked country, officials say. The three tribal elders were killed when a bomb went off on February 20 in
Mohammad Habibzada VOA News February 19, 2018 The United States and its European allies are trying to put Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watch list for failing to comply with anti-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering regulations. They are making their case to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body that combats terrorist financing
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 19, 2018 The bodies of nine civilians abducted by militants early last year have been found in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, an Afghan official and tribal elders said on February 19. Sayed Rahman Mohmand, the governor of Kot district, said the bodies, including three of tribal leaders, were found
Shahnaz Nafees VOA News February 18, 2018 WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD — A security expert from the Afghan-Pakistan region said Pakistani officials are blaming unrest on Afghan refugees in a bid to divert attention from the real causes of militancy. At a security conference in the German city of Munich Saturday, Pakistan’s chief of army staff Gen. Qamar Javed
Michael Hughes: A new U.S. watchdog dog report has undermined efforts to obfuscate the reality that the mission in Afghanistan has failed on every front. This is not an instance of fudging some numbers, for nearly every available yardstick for measuring security, aid, and governance in Afghanistan clearly indicates that Washington has, yet again, blatantly lied
Press TV February 15, 2018 The United States is not in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban but because America’s main rivals like China, Russia and Iran are in the neighborhood, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. Karzai, 60, made the remarks in an interview with The Washington Post’s Pamela Constable who’s the newspaper’s bureau chief in
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 14, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban, in an “open letter” to the American people has called for dialogue to end the prolonged Afghan war, claiming increased U.S. military airstrikes have not “retaken even a single inch of land” from the insurgency. Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, released copies of the 10-page document