KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 24 (Xinhua) — About seven police personnel were killed in a suspected insider attack in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar overnight, an official said on Thursday. “Seven personnel of Afghan Local Police (ALP) died after three ALP members turned their guns against them at a security checkpoint in Arghandab District at around
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 23, 2016 Afghanistan has managed to bring one of the country’s most notorious militant leaders to the negotiating table after he dropped demands that all foreign forces leave the country. Now Kabul must consider whether Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s offer to end a 15-year insurgency campaign in exchange for
Press TV March 23, 2016 Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says nearly 50 militants, including Daesh terrorists, have been killed and wounded over the past 24 hours across the country. According to a statement released by the Afghan defense ministry, the operations, which left 49 terrorists dead or wounded, were carried out in the country’s eastern and
Khaama Press: The Afghan national security forces killed at least 45 militants including 9 militants affiliated with the Islamic State Of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the militants were killed in the latest clearance operations jointly conducted by the Afghan army and security personnel from the other security institutions. Click
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 21, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The Afghan military has raided a Taliban-held prison and freed 16 hostages, including civilian and security personnel, in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said Monday. A Defense Ministry spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, told VOA the overnight raid in the district of Gerishk also killed 17 Taliban insurgents,
1TV News: Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday rejected speculation by some that the unity government will collapse. A newly formed opposition group led by former minister Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi has called for early presidential elections in the country accusing the unity government of failure to deliver. Some U.S. officials have also predicted that Afghanistan will
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 21 (Xinhua) — One police was killed and nine people were wounded after a clash flared up in a local bazaar in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Monday, police said. “The gun firing took place after militants fired by silenced weapons on police at a checkpoint in Tirikh Nawar locality
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense and Kabul police department said on Sunday that the Afghan security forces had been put on red alert to secure Nawroz celebrations that were held across the country to mark the start of the new solar year – 1395 in the Persian calendar. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A number of Badakhshan provincial council members and civil society activists on Sunday raised concerns over the end of military operations in the province and said the move would give militants a chance to regroup and strengthen their positions. They urged security forces to continue their operations against insurgents in the province. “If we don’t make
Press TV March 19, 2016 The United States has significantly stepped up its bombing campaign in Afghanistan to roll back the Daesh terrorists who have expanded their territory outside of Iraq and Syria, according to a report. US drones and warplanes carried out about three times more strikes in January and February in Afghanistan– dropping