VOA News Jeff Seldin April 14, 2016 PENTAGON—Islamic State (IS) appears to be losing its grip in Afghanistan, due in part to a steady aerial bombardment from U.S. and NATO forces and the terror group’s failure to win over Afghans themselves. “Nobody really wants Daesh [Islamic State] in the neighborhood,” Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, a spokesman for the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 14, 2016 Taliban militants have killed a police commander and seven other people, including three women, in Afghanistan. Qahar Khurm Aabi, highway police commander in the northern provinces of Takhar and Kunduz, was killed on April 14 in a Taliban ambush along with four of his guards on his way
1TV: Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence directorate funded Haqqani Network with 200,000 dollars to attack a CIA base in Afghanistan in 2009, according to recently revealed U.S. State Department documents. The suicide attack on Camp Chapman in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province was one of the worst attacks in CIA history. Seven American intelligence officers were killed in that
Tolo News: The Chief of Army Staff, General Qadam Shah Shahim, on Wednesday said the Taliban’s spring offensive announcement is nothing but propaganda that is supported by a number of foreign countries. Shahim has assured the people of Afghanistan that the Taliban’s operations will fail and no strategic region of the country will fall to the insurgent
ASADABAD, Afghanistan, April 13 (Xinhua) — Taliban group as part of its yearly spring offensive launched coordinated attacks on several districts of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday morning but fled the area after leaving 13 bodies behind, provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhil said. “Taliban fighters launched coordinated attacks on security checkpoints in Shigal,
Khaama Press: The acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai has said he will resign if the control of Helmand province falls to Taliban militants. The remarks by Stanikzai comes as the Taliban group has intensified offensive in this province during the past several months in a bid to capture the province. Click here to read more (external
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 12, 2016 BALUCHISTAN, PAKISTAN—The Taliban says it has launched its annual spring military offensive in Afghanistan, titled “Omari Operation.” In a statement sent to reporters Tuesday, the Islamist insurgent group promised “large scale attacks on enemy positions, martyrdom-seeking (suicide) and tactical attacks against enemy strongholds and assassination of enemy commanders
KABUL, April 12 (Xinhua) — Civilians often pay high prices in the war-zones, particularly in militancy-plagued Afghanistan as considerable number of the victims of three suicide bombings elsewhere in the country over the past seven days were civilians, according to officials. Since beginning this month, three suicide bombings have rocked Parwan, Kandahar and the eastern
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 11, 2016 At least 12 recruits in the Afghan National Army have been killed and dozens of people wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber who attacked the recruits’ bus near the eastern city of Jalalabad. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri confirmed the death toll in the April 11 suicide
Tolo News: Critics said on Sunday the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Afghanistan and the United States has marred the country’s hope for peace. In addition, some Afghan lawmakers and senators have also advocated for wider military support to Afghan troops in line with the security agreement. “The agreement must lead to the delivery of