KHOST, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Some 50 Taliban militants were killed and three others wounded in an airstrike against a militants’ hideout in eastern province of Khost, a local official said Saturday. “The strike was conducted in a remote locality in Piri area of Musa Khil district late on Friday evening,” district chief Gulab
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — More than 12,400 Afghan families have been forced to flee their houses due to increased Taliban-led militancy and clashes in northern Kunduz province since early 2017, a provincial official said Saturday. “Up to 12,400 families from remote districts, outskirts of provincial capital Kunduz city and the nearby areas have
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 4, 2017 Afghan officials say at least five security troops have been killed in a Taliban militant attack on a money-exchange market in the southern province of Helmand. Authorities said at least three gunmen attacked the market and engaged security forces in the Gereshk district early on August 4. A
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 3, 2017 The U.S. military in Afghanistan says four American troops were wounded in a suicide car-bomb attack in the southern part of the country, in addition to two service members who were killed. The Pentagon confirmed on August 2 that two U.S. soldiers died in the attack on a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 3, 2017 The father of one of the Afghan teenagers who made headlines when trying to attend a robotics competition in the United States has died in this week’s suicide attack on a mosque in western Afghanistan, her family says. Fatema Qaderyan and her teammates competed in the FIRST Global
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 2, 2017 ISLAMABAD — NATO’s military mission confirms an attack Wednesday on its convoy in southern Afghanistan has caused casualties. “We are working to gather additional information as quickly as possible and will release more details as appropriate,” the alliance said in a statement released from its headquarters in Kabul. A
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 2, 2017 An Afghan hospital official says at least 33 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, many of them critically, by a suicide bomber and gunman who attacked a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the western city of Herat on August 1. Authorities said a suicide bomber detonated
Michael Hughes: Revelations that the U.S. Defense Department wasted more than $457 million on a failed intelligence program in Afghanistan surfaced at the wrong time for war hawks that want to boost troop levels by another 4,000, especially considering the sitting U.S. president promised voters that he would reduce the costs of overseas commitments in order
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
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