PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — Taliban militants shot dead two former policemen in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Wednesday, police spokesman Mahfozullah Akbari confirmed. According to the official, both victims had served as local policemen and were gunned by Taliban in Khalozai area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district in Baghlan province Wednesday morning. Taliban
Tolo News: A security source said the armed forces surrounded Dostum’s house on Tuesday because he had brought huge numbers armed personnel into the city. In addition, the source said, nine of Dostum’s security guards were accused of mistreating Ahmad Eshchi, former deputy head of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan. Only two of the guards
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — Personnel of law enforcing agencies have arrested eight suspected insurgents in the southern Kandahar province, said a statement of National Directorate of Security (NDS) or the country’s spy agency released here Tuesday. “An eight-member group of armed insurgents have been arrested and the arrested persons have confessed to their
Masood Farivar VOA News February 20, 2017 They both call themselves the Taliban. They regularly carry out deadly suicide bombings, kill civilians with impunity and, in many respects, behave like brutish terrorist groups. So why is one — the Tehrik-I Taliban of Pakistan — on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, while the
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and Afghanistan have issued conciliatory statements in an apparent attempt to defuse days of border tensions stemming from charges Afghan soil was used for masterminding last week’s terrorist attacks in Pakistani cities. Pakistani troops have been staging cross-border shelling to target what authorities claimed were camps
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 20, 2017 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he will make recommendations soon to President Donald Trump on whether to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Mattis said on February 19 that the president had been “rightfully reticent” on the matter, as he was waiting for input from
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