JALALABAD, Afghanistan, April 4 (Xinhua) — Two people, including a police, were killed and 10 others including some civilians sustained injuries as blast rocked Khiwa district in the eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal said.
Khaama Press: Fourteen civilians including children and teenage boys were released from a prison run by the Taliban. Quoting the released prisoners, NDS said the Taliban insurgents were sexually abusing the detained teenage boy and children. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—The United Nations said it expects more violence with the onset of spring in Afghanistan and called for increased regional cooperation and coordination to help the war-hit nation counter the terrorism threat. Traditionally, fighting subsides in Afghanistan during winter because heavy snow blocks the movement of insurgents
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 2, 2016 Afghan officials say 11 mine clearers have been kidnapped by gunmen in the west of the country. Police in Herat Province said on April 2 that all 11 were Afghans employed by the HALO Trust mine-clearing organization and that they had been abducted on April 1. A military operation has been
KABUL, April 1 (Xinhua) — Seven Taliban militants have been killed over the past 24 hours across Afghanistan, the country’s defense ministry said on Friday. “Seven militants have been killed and 14 others wounded when Afghan National Security Forces launched joint operations in the countryside over the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 1, 2016 Saudi Arabia and the United States on March 31 announced joint sanctions aimed at cutting off financing for terrorist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including through a Pakistani orphanage. The sanctions put four individuals and two groups on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of global terrorists, including James
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, March 31 (Xinhua) — Six Taliban militants including a group commander were killed outside Kunduz provincial capital on Thursday, army spokesman in the province Nasrullah Jamshidi said. “The operations which covered some villages including Serahi Hajji Alam in the outskirt of Kunduz city claimed the lives of six Taliban rebels including a group
Michael Hughes: The obsession of the U.S. and its international partners with building a strong central state in Afghanistan at the expense of local, more informal, governing institutions is one of the reasons the state-building mission failed, leaving the country vulnerable to predation and abuse by corrupt officials and warlords. As a result, the Afghan government,
Counter Punch: Islamic extremism was virtually unknown fifty years ago and suicide bombings were inconceivable. And yet today it seems that we are confronted with both on a daily basis. So what happened to bring Islamic fundamentalism to the forefront of global politics? While there are many factors involved, undoubtedly one of the primary causes is
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 30, 2016 Fifteen Afghan security troops have been killed in fighting with Taliban militants in southern Uruzgan Province. A local district police chief said the fighting took place late on March 29 during an operation to reopen an important highway. He said that for four days the Taliban blocked the