Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 17, 2017 An Afghan official says a suicide car bombing near an army base in eastern Afghanistan has killed one soldier and wounded several others. Akbar Zadran, a district chief in the eastern province of Khost, said that the Taliban detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in front of the military base
Tolo News: Taliban militants are pushing to take control of Dangam district in Kunar in order to reach the provincial capital Asadabad and are doing so with the help of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Kunar Police Chief Juma Gul Himmat told TOLOnews. Click here to read more (external link). Related Helmand suicide bomber claims he was trained
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 15, 2017 An Afghan official says authorities have arrested 24 people, including an army general, on charges of neglecting their duties over a recent attack on the country’s largest military hospital. General Helaludin Helal, the deputy defense minister, spoke on March 15, revealing the findings of a preliminary investigation into
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 15, 2017 An Australian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan last year has been released, according to an Afghan official and the Australian government. The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, was kidnapped in Kabul in November. Mohammad Salim Almas, the head of criminal investigations in Kabul, said the woman
Press TV March 13, 2017 A powerful explosion has struck a bus in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least one person and wounding eight others. Interior Ministry spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi, said that the explosion destroyed the bus, which was carrying employees of one of the country’s biggest telecoms firms, in downtown
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani has appointed Amrullah Saleh, former head of National Directorate of Security (NDS) as state minister for reforms in security sector. Saleh was appointed by presidential decree to bring about significant reforms in the security sector. The appointment was made in terms of article 64 of the constitution. Saleh’s duties include advice
Press TV March 11, 2017 Eight Afghan policemen have been killed in their base by “infiltrators” in an attack claimed by the Taliban in Shinkia district of the southern province of Zabul. “The infiltrators first poisoned their colleagues and then shot them dead,” said provincial spokesman Gul Islam Seyal on Saturday. The attackers fled the
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 9, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is defying calls for permanently opening the border with landlocked Afghanistan, asserting that terrorist attacks emanating from the neighboring country continue to hurt Pakistani citizens and security forces. A string of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan last month prompted authorities to close all regular crossings for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 9, 2017 Afghan officials say the death toll in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul has risen to 49. Salim Rassouli, director of Kabul hospitals, said on March 9 that 49 people were killed in the attack on the Sardar Mohammad Khan military hospital on March 8, and
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 8, 2017 Pakistan’s border police say more than 20,000 Afghans and Pakistanis have crossed into Afghanistan since March 7 since Pakistani authorities temporarily reopened two main crossings that were closed after a series of militant attacks. The figures on the number of people making the crossing during the temporary reopening