Tolo News: Shahrbano Sadat, the young Afghan female film maker and director of Wolf and Sheep, which won a Cannes Film Festival prize earlier this year, has said that insecurity in the country was the reason she filmed the movie outside of the country. She says that with every film she works on there are dozens of
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 1, 2016 Afghan officials say at least to eight people have been killed — including at least six Taliban fighters — as a result of a militant attack on a district governor’s office in Logar Province. Logar Province Governor Mohammad Halim Fedayee told RFE/RL that Afghan security forces killed
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD — More than 900 Afghan security personnel died in July while battling Taliban insurgents, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday. General John Nicholson of NATO’s Resolute Support mission made the revelation during a year in which Taliban fighters have made territorial advances, fighting
SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — Three children were injured as a bomb went off in a wedding ceremony in Shiberghan. the capital of northern Jauzjan province on Tuesday, provincial police chief Rahmatullah Turkistani said. “A bomb blast ripped through a wedding party in a local hotel in Shiberghan city at around 03:30 p.m. local
Khaama Press: Afghanistan has reached to an agreement with India to airlift trade commodities as tensions remain persistent between Afghanistan and Pakistan along the Durand Line. Officials in Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) have said the agreement was reached with India after closure of land route by Pakistan incurred millions in loss to the Afghan
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban confirmed to VOA Tuesday it has been holding a Canadian man, his American wife and their two children hostage, saying the insurgent group is waiting for the U.S. and Canadian governments to meet its demands. Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlan Coleman, in a video
Press TV August 31, 2016 The US State Department is reportedly evaluating a video released by the Taliban in Afghanistan that shows a Canadian man and his American wife warning that they will be killed unless their captors’ demands are met. John Kirby, the US State Department spokesman, made the announcement in a press briefing
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 30, 2016 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Pakistan to join other nations in tackling terrorism, saying there can be no distinction between “good and bad terrorists.” Kerry made the comments on August 30 at a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi. Citing
Chris Hannas VOA News August 30, 2016 WASHINGTON — The top U.S. diplomat for Central Asia says the region’s relative stability means it often does not get much attention, but that a top priority when the next U.S. president takes office will be to explain the area’s importance to that new administration. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Tolo News: Security officials said Tuesday the road connecting Marjah district with Lashkargah city in Helmand has been reopened to traffic – 20 days after their clearing operation started. Until Tuesday the Taliban had essentially formed a ring around the provincial capital cutting off the city. Click here to read more (external link). More Security News Brother