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McCain Says He Will Propose New Afghanistan Strategy

1st August, 2017 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 1, 2017 U.S. Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona) says he will propose a plan for a U.S. strategy in Afghanistan as an amendment to a defense authorization bill later this year. McCain, an influential Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Service Committee, said in a July 31 statement that more than

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Posted in Security, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Daesh attack in Kabul ends, 2 guards, attackers killed: Ministry

31st July, 2017 · admin

Press TV July 31, 2017 Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says a bomb and gun attack on the Iraqi embassy in the country’s capital, Kabul, has ended, leaving all attackers dead. “The terrorist attack on Iraqi embassy is over. All the attackers have been killed,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement, adding that no embassy staff

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Security |
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US Confirms Killing of Additional IS Leaders in July 11 Airstrike

30th July, 2017 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News July 30, 2017 ISLAMABAD — U.S. military officials have confirmed the death of four additional senior Islamic State leaders in a July 11 airstrike in northeastern Afghanistan that also killed the top leader of the terrorist group. The drone attack struck IS headquarters in Kunar province, which borders Pakistan, and eliminated Abu

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Kunar |
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Kabul Hopes Next Pakistani Prime Minister Will Fight Terror

29th July, 2017 · admin

Tolo News: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Saturday said Afghanistan hopes that the next Pakistani prime minister would fight terror and take practical steps to remove terrorists’ safe havens in Pakistan. Afghanistan wants friendly relations with Pakistan, the MoFA spokesman Shekib Mustaghni said, adding that Islamabad must take action against terrorists. Click here to

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban |
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Afghan forces retake district in Ghor Province from Taliban

28th July, 2017 · admin

Press TV July 28, 2017 Afghan ground forces backed by the air force have driven out Taliban militants from a district in Afghanistan’s western Ghor Province after fierce fighting. Abdul Hai Khateby, the provincial governor spokesman, said fighting raged for two days before Afghan soldiers drove the militants from the Taywara District center on Friday. Khateby

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ghor |
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Afghan Forces Rescue 2 Pakistani Diplomats

27th July, 2017 · admin

VOA News July 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan security forces Wednesday safely recovered two Pakistani diplomats weeks after they were abducted in eastern Afghanistan. The men were serving at Pakistan’s consulate general in the Afghan city of Jalalabad and traveling back to their country on June 16 when they went missing. No one had claimed responsibility

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security | Tags: Kidnapping |
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Taliban Attack Kills 26 Afghan Soldiers in South

26th July, 2017 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News July 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials confirmed Wednesday a Taliban attack has left at least 26 soldiers dead and 13 others wounded in the southern province of Kandahar. The overnight assault in the Khakrez district targeted an Afghan National Army, or ANA, base, an official statement quoted Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Army, Kandahar, Nuristan |
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Afghan Girl Injured in Bombing Highlights UN Report on Civilian Casualties

26th July, 2017 · admin

Hasib Danish Alikozai Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat VOA News | July 25, 2017 WASHINGTON/NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Ten-year-old Madina was collecting firewood with her friends Thursday in eastern Afghanistan when a roadside bomb went off and seriously injured her. “We were on a hill close to my home, collecting firewood, when I heard a loud sound underneath my feet,”

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Posted in Afghan Children, Anti-Government Militants, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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Militant Violence Kills 10 Afghan Journalists in First Half of 2017

25th July, 2017 · admin

VOA News July 25, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Ten journalists have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year in militant attacks plotted by the Taliban and Islamic State loyalists, a media monitoring group said. Violence during the first six months of 2017 also wounded 12 journalists, the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) said in a report

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Media, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Journalists |
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Afghan Taliban Captures Third District In Three Days

25th July, 2017 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 25, 2017 An Afghan official says the Taliban has seized control of a district in southeastern Afghanistan, the third to fall to the militants in as many days. The Taliban’s apparent capture of Jani Khel district in Paktia Province, along the porous border with Pakistan, came after days of heavy

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Paktia |
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