AOPNEWS | February 10, 2016 Baghlan: Local officials announced today that over 130 Taliban militants have been killed and 95 have been wounded as a result of Afghan military operations against them through out the province. The provincial governor, Abdul Sattar Bariz, said that so far 2 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 6 have
AOPNEWS | February 9, 2016 Baghlan: Afghan security forces said today that the Taliban have suffered heavy causalities in Baghlani-e Markazi – 8 insurgents have been reported killed, and a dozen wounded. A military base was also recaptured. One Afghan policeman was reported injured. A resident reported that two children and a woman were wounded
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 9, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United States has warned its citizens in Afghanistan that insurgents are planning to attack foreign guest houses in the capital city of Kabul as of early this month. A U.S. Embassy statement issued early Tuesday says the warning is based on reports it has received, adding there
AOPNEWS | February 8, 2016 Badakhshan: Afghan officials say that 5 Pakistani spies who were pretending to be doctors have been arrested. The provincial police chief said that 2 men and a woman were detained in Kisham district, and a woman and a man were arrested in Baharak district. An Afghan pulic health official said
Tolo News: Kabul city has been without power for 13 days – almost two weeks that Afghan security forces have been trying to push back Taliban militants from the area where they blew up a power pylon. Officials from Da Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said that they do not know when they will be able to rebuild
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (Xinhua)– At least 18 army personnel were wounded in a blast as a bomb targeted an Afghan army bus in the country’s northern province of Balkh on Monday morning, police said. “The stricken minibus was running near army Corps 209 Shaheen in southwestern outskirts of provincial capital. The blast caused 18
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 7, 2016 Afghan officials say three health workers involved in vaccinating Afghan children against polio have been killed in the eastern Kunar Province. Local government spokesman Abdul Ghani Musamim said on February 7 the bodies of the health workers were found in Kunar’s Ghaziabad district late on February 6, almost
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 7, 2016 An Afghan army commander says a key district in the southern province of Helmand is on the verge of being overrun by the Taliban. The unidentified commander told the BBC that most of Sangin district had been capture by the militants. He said the government still controls a
New York Times Sunday Review: Pakistan is intervening in a number of foreign conflicts. Its intelligence service has long acted as the manager of international mujahedeen forces, many of them Sunni extremists, and there is even speculation that it may have been involved in the rise of the Islamic State. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV / February 7, 2016 At least one policeman was killed and eight other people were injured in a roadside bomb explosion Sunday in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar. A vehicle transporting provincial court staff toward their office in the provincial capital of Pul-i-Alam hit the bomb, a local official said, adding that an investigation has