TALUQAN, Afghanistan, April 19 (Xinhua) — About 62 Afghan girl students were hospitalized Tuesday due to a possible gas poisoning in the country’s northern province of Takhar, police said. “Up to 62 students of the Sar-e-Rustaq Girl High School in Rustaq District were shifted to district hospital after they showed symptoms of vomiting, and several
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 19, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A group of Taliban insurgents staged a bomb and gun attack in the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 327, according officials. The assault targeted a building, which officials say houses a special unit of the Afghan security force working under
VOA News Noor Zahid, Fatima Tlisova April 18, 2016 Russia is increasing diplomatic contacts with the Taliban insurgent group in Afghanistan as Moscow looks to counter Islamic State (IS) gains in Central Asia and increase its influence in the nation it once occupied. “We and the Taliban have channels for exchanging information,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United Nations warned Monday that growing attacks as well as the misuse of medical and education facilities by all parties to the Afghan conflict have reduced the availability of health care, and limited children’s access to these essential services in the past three years. A new report
KABUL, April 18 (Xinhua)– Some 96 militants have been killed and 93 others wounded by clashes and airstrikes across Afghanistan within one day, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Monday. “The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces launched several operations in Nangarhar, Ghazni, Khost, Kandahar, Zabul, Badghis, Nimroz, Jawzjan, Balkh, Faryab, Baghlan, Kunduz, and Helmand
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United Nations said the Afghan conflict has caused nearly 2,000 casualties in the first three months of this year, showing an increase of 2 percent compared to the same period last year. The number includes an increase of 11 percent in civilians wounded – 1,343 – but a
VOA News April 17, 2016 Afghan officials and insurgent sources said intense fighting is raging near the northern city of Kunduz. An Interior Ministry statement issued Sunday said Afghan forces killed at least 44 Taliban insurgents and wounded many more in overnight clashes around the provincial capital. The fighting erupted Friday after the Taliban staged
KABUL, April 16 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces have once again thwarted Taliban attempts to capture Kunduz provincial capital Kunduz city, 250 km north of Kabul after inflicting huge casualties to the Taliban fighters, an army spokesman in the northern region Nasratullah Jamshidi said Saturday. According to Jamshidi, 62 Taliban fighters were killed since Friday
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan on Friday rejected as “preposterous” allegations that its spy agency had links with the Haqqani network of militants and played a role in the 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan. A newly declassified U.S. document says an officer of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 15, 2016 The Pentagon said on April 14 that the United States carried out up to 80 air strikes against Islamic State (IS) extremists in Afghanistan during the first three months of 2016 under new rules of engagement. U.S. Brigadier General Charles Cleveland said the increased focus on IS in