Press TV March 29, 2016 A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet has crashed at the Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan, says the Pentagon. According to Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook, the incident took place on Tuesday while the plane was taking off. He added that the pilot was able to eject before the
Counter Punch: Bombs explode in a subway. The victims are everyday people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. What follows is outrage: track down the perpetuators. The people who set off the bombs are monsters and inhuman fanatics, thunder the authorities. But the year is not 2016, it is 1883…
Khaama Press: Four people have lost their lives and 15 others sustained injuries in a bomb blast in the 11th police district of Kabul city. The target of the blast was reportedly a former senator who was passing through the area in his vehicle. Click here to read more (external link). Related Security News Nine militants killed,
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 28, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s security chief is directly blaming neighboring Pakistan’s military intelligence agency for being behind the Taliban’s expanded insurgent activities in his country. Briefing lawmakers Monday in the lower house of the national parliament, Massoud Andarabi, the acting head of the National Directorate of Security, warned that the Islamist
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 28, 2016 Officials say Taliban militants fired a series of rockets at Afghanistan’s parliament compound on March 28 as the top intelligence official and caretaker minister of interior were due to speak. No casualties were reported from the attack claimed by the Taliban. “Three rockets were fired at the parliament
KABUL, March 27 (Xinhua) — Afghan government forces mounted pressure against Taliban militants in the northern Baghlan province, killing a shadow district governor on Sunday. “The security forces launched a cleanup operation in Koro valley of Dushi district on Saturday. As a result, a Taliban shadow district governor Mullah Jan Mohammad was killed on Sunday
Press TV March 27, 2016 Taliban militants have shot and killed the senior judge on a provincial appeals court during an ambush in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Wardak. Afghan officials said on Sunday that Mohammad Anwar, a judge in the neighboring Ghazni Province, was gunned down the day before. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 26 (Xinhua) — Some 10 militants had been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, an army spokesman said on Saturday. “Based on a confirmed tip-off, the air raid operation was conducted on a compound in Marja district Friday evening, killing 10 Taliban militants,” Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Rassoul
Press TV March 25, 2016 An explosion close to the US embassy and other diplomatic missions in the Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, injures one person. The blast in the Macrorayan area shook almost the entire southern part of the capital on Friday. The Kabul police chief said an improvised explosive device (IED) that was attached to a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 25, 2016 Taliban militants have killed an army general in the southern province of Kandahar. Samim Khapalwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said two gunmen opened fire on General Khan Agha late on March 24 in the Dand district. Khapalwak said the general was on the way back home