GHAZNI, Afghanistan, April 27 (Xinhua) — One civilian was killed and two others injured as a bomb blast struck a car in the eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Fahim Amiri said. “A magnetic bomb attached in a car of tribal elder Hajji Mirza Mohammad exploded at around 01:00 p.m. local time today
Khaama Press: During an interview with the Russia Today television network, Karzai said Washington should focus on cutting down extremists’ financial sources and training grounds if the country remains sincerely determined to fight terror in all its forms, and its intentions are true. “The war against terrorism will not succeed unless we fight it in the sanctuaries,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 27, 2016 The Afghan Taliban claims to have sent a delegation to Pakistan for peace talks just as the Afghan government cooled to negotiations in the wake of last week’s massive bomb blast that killed 64 people in Kabul. “We are aware that Taliban delegations are in Pakistan, but we
KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) — The Afghan National Army personnel had found and defused 26 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines in two southern provinces, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “The army bomb disposal teams discovered and defused 26 IEDs and landmines in Shorabak and Shah Wali Kot districts of Kandahar province and Nawbahar
Press TV April 25, 2016 Russia’s ambassador to Afghanistan dismisses speculation that Moscow has been backing Taliban in order to curb the Daesh Takfiri terrorists operating in some areas of Afghanistan. Ambassador Alexander Mantytskiy told reporters in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday that “Russia has no hidden agenda in Afghanistan.” “We do not provide any
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 25, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A group of Taliban negotiators has arrived in Pakistan from the Islamist insurgency’s political office in Qatar for “exploratory” meetings with authorities in Islamabad, diplomatic sources confirmed Monday to VOA. The visit of the three-member Taliban delegation is part of efforts that Pakistan is “cautiously” making to facilitate
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 25, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has demanded neighboring Pakistan evict fugitive Taliban leaders from its soil and hand them over to Kabul for trial. In a hard-hitting speech to a rare joint session of parliament Monday, Ghani said Pakistani leaders promised they would use force against Taliban leaders who
Ottawa Citizen: There was an interesting report from Reuters news agency which highlighted the growing importance of unmanned aerial vehicles, aka drones. Drones have fired more weapons than conventional warplanes for the first time in Afghanistan, the news agency noted. Citing U.S. military officers, it suggests that the UAVs will play a greater role in the
Daily Telegraph (Australia): One of the country’s most high-profile former soldiers says Australia’s military operations in Afghanistan are “poorly conceived”, warning “people will be killed … and often times they will be innocents”. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV April 24, 2016 A senior commander of the Taliban militant group has been killed during an operation conducted by security forces in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Parwan. “During a special operation of Afghan National Police, deputy Taliban so-called district governor for Shinwari district of Parwan Province, named Alamuddin, was killed,” the Afghan Interior Ministry said in