Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 5, 2016 Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his government is using “formal and informal channels” to seek the return of seven passengers of a crashed Pakistani helicopter who were captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Sharif made the comments in an August 5 statement, after the Pakistani government aircraft crash-landed
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 5, 2016 Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan have joined China in a military alliance aimed at countering Islamist militancy, officials said. Military leaders from the four countries gathered on August 4 in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang to announce the alliance, the Pakistani Army said. Known as the Quadrilateral Cooperation and
VOA News Ayaz Gul August 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan again brushed aside U.S. skepticism of its anti-terror efforts Thursday, saying Pakistani security forces are attacking militant groups without distinguishing between “good and bad” terrorists. The statement comes a day after the U.S. Defense Department announced it would not pay Islamabad $300 million in military reimbursements because
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 4, 2016 Officials in Islamabad say a government helicopter crash-landed in Taliban-held territory in Afghanistan on August 4 and that all passengers and crew — including a Russian navigator — were feared to have been captured by militants. DawnNews reported that a Punjab government Mi-17 helicopter had seven people aboard
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 4, 2016 A group of foreign tourists escorted by an Afghan Army convoy has been attacked in the western province of Herat. Jilani Farhad, the spokesman for Herat’s governor, said at least six tourists and their Afghan driver were wounded in the August 4 attack in Chesht-e Sharif district. Farhad
Quartz: IS’s Afghan arm is a fringe militant group in the sense that it accounts for a relatively small percentage of the fighters in the country who are waging violent jihad against the state. At the peak of its military strength, it claimed to have around 5,000 men under arms. Over the past year, it’s contended
Noor Zahid, Noshaba Ashna VOA News | August 2, 2016 IS militants launched a massive assault on various parts of the Kot district in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province last month. Dozens of villagers were killed and hundreds displaced. In the remote village of Qalajaat, Niaz Bibi watched as IS fighters invaded her home and murdered five
Khaama Press: Afghan intelligence operatives foiled a coordinated attack plot in Mehtarlam city, the provincial capital eastern Laghman province of Afghanistan. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said a group 6 terrorists belonging to the Taliban group were arrested in connection to the attack plot. Click here to read more (external link). Other Security News Indian woman
VOA News Ayaz Gul August 1, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan have declared a far eastern border district free of Islamic State militants, saying security forces killed nearly 300 IS militants during a month-long offensive. Provincial governor Salim Khan Kundozi made the announcement Monday during a visit to the Kot district in Nangarhar province, which borders
Press TV August 1, 2016 A massive Taliban attack on a hotel housing foreign contractors in the Afghan capital has ended seven hours after the assault began, officials say. One policeman lost his life and three others were wounded but none of the hotel staff or guests were hurt in the early morning attack. The incident ended with one