PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, March 3 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces after weeks of heavy battle recaptured Dand-e-Ghori district in northern Baghlan province and dislodged Taliban militants from the area, provincial governor Abdul Sattar Bariz said Thursday.
Khaama Press: The Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif met with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani during a brief visit to capital Kabul. A spokesman for Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani military, General Asim Bajwa, said, Gen. Sharif had a brief stop over at Kabul to meet with
1TV: U.S. Army General John Campbell stepped down as commander of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan on Wednesday, capping an 18-month tenure that saw the alliance transition from regular combat to a training-focused mission as war continued to rage. The incoming commander, General John Nicholson, will inherit a conflict that is testing Afghan security forces and the
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 2, 2016 A suicide attack targeted India’s diplomatic compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on March 2, with explosions and gunfire rattling the diplomatic district. RFE/RL’s correspondent in Jalalabad reports that a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-filled vehicle outside the entrance gates of the Indian consulate
Tolo News: Ahmad Zia Massoud, President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Representative on Reform and Good Governance, in an interview with TOLO news said that there are certain circles that do not want Taliban to be suppressed in military operations. Massoud said that these circles in collusion with the Taliban do not let the security forces move from
Tolo News: Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday said that lack of coordination between security forces and a lack of cooperation between people and the Afghan National Police force members is the main reason for the increase in insecurity in the country. “People can say their pain to the security officials only
Bakhtar News Agency: Kabul (BNA) While Taliban have being accused by international sources and organizations for using children in battlefields, recently the national defense ministry troops released 35 civilians from the captivity of notorious Taliban in Helmand province. According to BNA report, recently the forces of national defense ministry conducting a special operation in Nad Ali district
Press TV: The CIA wasted numerous opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden before September 11, 2001, because the former al-Qaeda chief was essentially working for the US government, says Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003. Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 1, 2016 Afghan security forces have pulled back from more Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan, continuing a withdrawal that began in February when they abandoned two districts in Helmand Province after months of heavy fighting. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the spokesman for the governor of Uruzgan Province, said on March 1
Khaama Press: The Afghan intelligence operatives thwarted a coordinated suicide car bombing plot in the provincial capital of southern Kandahar province. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said four groups of militants comprised of 26 insurgents were detained by the intelligence operatives in connection to the attack plot. A statement by NDS said the groups were looking