Ayaz Gul VOA News January 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan has staged a major overnight battlefield assault in a southern province, killing at least 16 police personnel and capturing two outposts. A local security official told VOA on Friday the fighting erupted in the district of Maiwand in Kandahar, saying Afghan forces
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 19, 2017 The European Union is urging all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan to “do their utmost” to protect press reporters,after a media watchdog said 2016 was the country’s “bloodiest year for journalists and media” in history. “Freedom of the Media is key to any democracy — critical media
KABUL, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — Russia, Pakistan and China held a trilateral meeting in Moscow in late December 2016 to discuss the lingering conflict in Afghanistan and try to find a solution to the protracted turbulence in the South Asian region. The participants in the trilateral conference, besides calling for a negotiated settlement on the
Reuters: The Afghan Taliban has sought to reassure the United Arab Emirates that it was not behind an attack in the southern city of Kandahar that killed five UAE diplomats and injured the ambassador, senior Taliban officials said on Thursday. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 19, 2017 ISLAMABAD — While misgivings and distrust marred and further complicated Pakistan’s relations with the United States over the past eight years, officials in Islamabad appear upbeat about a more “substantive” and mutually “advantageous” engagement with the incoming administration of Donald Trump. President Barack Obama’s administration provided billions of dollars
Live Mint: Pakistan has managed to sell the flawed theory that the Taliban can be used to fight the Islamic State – After the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, including the one which killed five UAE diplomats, Russia has “(urged) the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and
Al Arabiya: In order to implement its long-term strategy in Afghanistan, Iran has increased its military support to Taliban and at the same time, counts on its own militia proxy, the Fatemiyoun Division which is made up of Afghan Shiites which was founded by Revolutionary Guards in 2013 to fight in Syria. This battle-experienced force is
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Unidentified armed men shot dead a former resistance commander in the northern Afghan Kunduz province on Monday, police spokesman in the province Mahfozullah Akbari said. According to Akbari, unknown armed men opened fire on Majnon, a former anti-Taliban commander in Kunduz province in the morning rush hour, killing him
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 16, 2017 Pakistani military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that his troops have destroyed “all safe havens” for terrorists in Pakistan. Bajwa also told Ghani in a telephone call on January 15 that the two countries must cooperate on security issues to deter cross-border
Mint Press News: A recent investigation has revealed that someone thought to be an aid worker killed by Navy SEALs in Afghanistan was actually a spy working for MI6, the British intelligence agency. Linda Norgrove was employed at Development Alternatives Incorporated, a U.S. contractor working in Afghanistan, when she was captured by the Taliban in September