Press TV October 5, 2016 The US military says one of its service members has been killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. “The service member was killed conducting operations with Afghan forces when the patrol triggered an Improvised Explosive Device,” the Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday. According to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 4, 2016 Fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants has moved into a second day in the northern city of Kunduz. Taliban fighters launched an assault on Kunduz early on October 3, about a year after briefly capturing the city. Officials said on October 4 that fighting was still
Press TV October 3, 2016 Afghan commandos have repelled a Taliban attack on Kunduz after the terrorists briefly took control of the northern city’s center. “Government controls Kunduz City and Afghan security forces are in control of the main square with additional troops coming,” said NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan on Monday. Afghan special forces
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Fighting erupted in northern Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents staged a pre-dawn coordinated offensive on the strategically important city of Kunduz, which they briefly overran a year ago. Local officials say the Islamist insurgency assaulted the provincial capital from four directions and fought their way into the city.
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Clashes between security forces and Taliban militants in the eastern Ghazni province left 11 armed insurgents dead and injured nine others on Saturday night, a senior army officer in the province General Nizamudin Khanjar said Sunday. “Government forces in crackdown against Taliban rebels in Muqar, Andar and Gero districts
Michael Hughes: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on September 29 consummated a peace agreement with notorious warlord and internationally-designated terrorist Gulbidden Hekmatyar, who is renowned for being the only prime minister in history to bomb his own nation’s capital. The immediate and obvious question is: Why? Why strike a peace deal with an exiled war criminal who
Khaama Press: At least five soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) commando forces lost their lives in an airstrike allegedly carried out by the US forces in Afghanistan. The airstrike was reportedly carried out in western Farah province of Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents and militants belonging to the other insurgent groups are actively operating. Click
Sputnik: MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Daesh terrorist group maintains greater interest in Central Asia than in Afghanistan, but it has little capabilities to reach the region at the moment, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said. Click here to read more (external link). Other Security News ISIS use civilians as shield, dress in female attire to
The Guardian (UK): When international donors and the Afghan government convene in Brussels next week, the EU secretly plans to threaten Afghanistan with a reduction in aid if the war-torn country does not accept at least 80,000 deported asylum seekers. According to a leaked restricted memo (pdf), the EU will make some of its aid “migration sensitive”,
Hasib Danish Alikozai VOA News September 27, 2016 WASHINGTON — Ja Jaan, a member of the Afghan national police, was traveling home from his job in the provincial capital of southern Uruzgan province to spend a few days off with his family when he came under attack from the Taliban. “I was armed, and I knew