ISLAMABAD, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — At least 11 Afghan militants were killed in clash with Pakistani armed forces in the country’s northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency on Sunday, local Urdu media reported. Dawn News said that two security personnel were also injured in the clash that took place along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Quoting unidentified
MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — Five Afghan civilians, including a child, were wounded in a bomb attack in the eastern Laghman province on Sunday, said the provincial government. “A sticky Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attached to a private vehicle was detonated in Ali Shing district’s bazaar at around midday, injuring five innocent civilians,” it
Paul Alexander VOA News February 18, 2017 Pakistan has closed its border with Afghanistan, fired a barrage of artillery into its neighbor’s territory and staged a major domestic crackdown on militant groups, reportedly killing more than 100 suspects, in response to the deadliest terror attack in the country in years. It was the latest in
Ayaz Gul / VOA News February 18, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, called Saturday for the safe and unconditional release of two staff members abducted in northern Afghanistan earlier this month. The abductees were part of an ICRC convoy transporting food for livestock of poverty-stricken farmers in the northern Jowzjan
Press TV February 17, 2017 Seventeen Afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists on army security posts in eastern Afghanistan. Ahmad Ali Hazrat, the chief of the provincial council, said on Friday that the attack was carried out in Dih Bala district of Nangarhar province the previous night. Hazrat
Press TV February 16, 2017 The United Arab Emirates says its ambassador to Afghanistan has died of injuries he sustained in a last-month bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. The UAE state media announced Juma Mohammad Abdullah al-Kaabi’s death on Thursday. He had been targeted in a spate of bomb attacks in three Afghan cities
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 15, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Two separate bomb explosions in northwestern Pakistan killed at least six people and wounded many more Wednesday. Officials say the deadliest incident happened in the Mohmand tribal district near the Afghan border, where a suicide bomber blew himself up after security forces spotted and tried to stop
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — A total of 16 militants loyal to Islamic State (IS) have been killed and two others injured in the eastern Nangarhar province over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for Nangarhar provincial government said Tuesday. The operations, according to spokesman Attaullah Khogiani, covered some villages in Haska Mina and
Daniel Schearf VOA News February 14, 2017 MOSCOW — Russia is expected to host a second round of international talks on Afghanistan in Moscow on February 15, reports Russia’s TASS news agency, with Afghanistan representatives invited for the first time. Russia says it wants stability and cooperation in the fight against extremists in the region. But
Interview Press TV February 13, 2017 Under the pretext of chasing al-Qaeda operatives implicated in the 9/11 attacks on US soil, American forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001. The continued military operation has caused heavy casualties, but US officials claim they are fighting al-Qaeda, the Taliban and most recently Daesh terrorists in the Asian nation. Press