VOA News June 1, 2016 Five civilians and a policeman were killed when Taliban gunmen stormed a courthouse in Eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. A suicide bomber detonated outside the courthouse of Ghazni, allowing the three gunmen to enter the building. An hour-long gunfight ended in all three assailants being killed by police forces. In a
VOA News Noor Zahid May 31, 2016 The government of Afghanistan says it has adopted a new strategy to counter Islamic State, but it has not given any specific details. The plan, approved Monday at the National Security Council weekly meeting chaired by President Ashraf Ghani, calls IS an “enemy of Afghanistan’s national security.” “The
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials said Tuesday that the Taliban took dozens of people hostage near the northern city of Kunduz. The insurgents apparently set up a check-point in a pre-dawn action on the main road near the provincial capital and stopped buses and vehicles heading to Kunduz from the national
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 30, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Taliban militants in Afghanistan have intensified battlefield attacks, killing around 57 Afghan security forces and wounding 37 others in the restive southern Helmand province. Afghan officials say fierce fighting has raged since Saturday, when the Taliban launched a string of coordinated assaults on three districts, including Nad Ali,
VOA News / May 29, 2016 The Taliban in Afghanistan is likely to increase attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in an effort to demonstrate that the recent death of the group’s leader has not affected it in any way, Afghan security experts say. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a
KABUL, May 29 (Xinhua) — Two local Taliban leaders were killed Saturday after Afghan army struck a militants’ hideout in southern province of Uruzgan, the country’s Defense Ministry said Sunday. The Afghan National Army pounded a Taliban hideout in Chora district by several artillery rounds, killing Maulawi Jan Aqa, Taliban shadow governor for neighboring Daykundi
KABUL, May 28 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces on Saturday shot dead a would-be suicide bomber in Kabul, the National Directorate for Security (NDS) said. “A would-be suicide bomber named Abbas was killed after personnel of NDS recognized and intercepted him in 17th Police District of Kabul city,” the country’s spy agency said in a
KABUL, May 27 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces have pressed on to clear the militants in restive provinces and killed 79 militants in the latest operations, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. “Afghan army, police and personnel of intelligence agency carried out several joint cleanup operations within the past 24 hours, killing 79 armed
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 26, 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama has said the Taliban are unlikely to come to the table for peace talks with the Afghan government “anytime soon.” Obama was speaking on May 26 on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Japan, a day after the Taliban appointed Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 25, 2016 A suicide attack on a vehicle carrying court employees has killed at least 11 people and wounded four others west of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the attacker detonated his explosives vest as he walked by the vehicle in Paghman district during the morning