Ayaz Gul VOA News January 10, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say a twin suicide bombing in the capital Kabul Tuesday killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 80 others. Witnesses say the insurgents targeted a convoy of officials leaving parliament offices. The death toll is likely to increase. Top security officials, civilians and
Tolo News: What was President Barack Obama’s hardest decision during his two terms in office? A massive troop surge in Afghanistan, he said in an interview aired Sunday. “Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan,” Obama, who leaves office in less than two weeks, told ABC. After a
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 8, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban has dismissed American plans to send 300 troops to Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province as nothing but “solely to lend morale” to embattled Afghan forces “in hopes they hold out until spring.” The insurgents have captured most of the districts in Helmand since NATO ended its
1TV: Afghanistan bowler Shapoor Zadran escaped unhurt from an “armed attack” in capital Kabul late Saturday. Farid Hotak, a spokesman for Afghanistan Cricket Board, confirmed the attack with 1TV. The cricketer faced the attack by gunmen while he was travelling to his home in Bagrami district of Kabul, he told the Voice of America. The motive
Mirwais Bezhan VOA News January 7, 2017 A group of 150 women in the northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan have taken up arms to fight Taliban and Islamic State militants. Some of the women, who live in the violence-plagued districts of Qoosh Tapa and Darz A’ab, say Taliban and IS militants killed the male members
Press TV January 7, 2017 The Pentagon will deploy a new task force of approximately 300 US Marines to Afghanistan’s restive Helmand Province, marking the return to a region where hundreds of troops were killed in fierce combat. The forces with a unit called Task Force Southwest will deploy this spring to advise the Afghan
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 6, 2017 An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed at least seven coal miners in northern Afghanistan, revising the death toll which was earlier put at 13. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that the miners were
Noor Zahid VOA News January 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — Instead of a slowdown in fighting during Afghanistan’s harsh winter, government security forces say they will press their operations against the Taliban and Islamic State group despite heavy snow and bitter cold. “Taliban and other terrorist groups will not be allowed to claim territory over the next
Press TV January 3, 2017 People in western Afghanistan have staged a massive protest against growing sectarian attacks on Shia Muslims by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. About 2,000 demonstrators, holding pictures of Shia Muslims killed in recent terrorist attacks, marched on the governor’s office in the city of Herat on Tuesday. The protesters chanted slogans
Tolo News: Former politician and Jihadi figure Mohammad Ismail Khan on Monday warned that Afghanistan is likely to enter a new era of conflict unless government reviews its regional policies, referring to the recent trilateral meeting between China, Pakistan and Russia on Afghanistan. If action is not taken, Afghanistan could change into a second Syria, he