AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that airstrikes conducted with the support of the United States in a restive eastern region have destroyed an Islamic State radio station along with its Internet communications and other facilities. The air raids also killed 29 Islamic State fighters, including five staff at
Press TV / February 1, 2016 The United States has carried out airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Afghanistan, expanding Washington’s military campaign against the militants beyond Iraq and Syria. The US military has conducted at least a dozen operations in the past three weeks against militants aligned with Daesh in Afghanistan, theNew
Khaama Press: A group of Taliban militants launched attack on electricity directorate in Pul-e-Khumri, the provincial capital of northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan. The attack was launched by a group of around 50 Taliban militants who have taken position in the electricity directorate in Band-e-Du area of the city. Click here to read more (external link).
February 1, 2016 – TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Militants and bad weather in northern Afghanistan have hampered efforts to repair power lines that were destroyed last week, cutting electricity in the capital, Kabul, to about six hours a day, officials said Monday. Insurgents last week destroyed an electricity pylon in the Dand Shahabuddin district of Baghlan
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 1, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s former cricket star-turned-politician, Imran Khan, is urging Afghanistan’s Taliban to negotiate a peaceful resolution to its conflict with the Kabul government. “They (the Taliban) must come to the table and they must resolve this dispute through talks and negotiations. War is never a solution. In fact, war
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 1, 2016 ISLAMABAD – A powerful suicide blast targeting a major police facility in the Afghan capital has killed at least 20 police officers and wounded 29 other people. The head of Kabul’s crime investigation department said security guards identified the suspected bomber as he moved toward the Afghan National Civil Order Police Headquarters
AOPNEWS | January 31, 2016 Baghlan: Dozens of militants, including Pakistanis were killed in recent clearing operations, according to government officials. The provincial governor, Abdul Sattar Bariz said that two Taiban commanders, Muhammad Omar and Juma Din were among those killed. Meanwhile, officials from Dand-e Ghori are expressing their regret at a “peace deal” signed
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and Afghan military commanders agreed Saturday on better coordination and enhancing security measures at both sides of the border, officials said. Pakistan and Afghanistan have neatly 2,600 kilometers border, mostly porous, and the militants take advantage of the inaccessible and difficult terrain to move across the border. Pakistan has
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 30, 2016 Afghan officials say a TV journalist has been shot dead by unknown assailants in eastern Nangarhar Province. Haji Mohammad Zubair Khaksar, who was a Nangarhar correspondent for Afghanistan’s national TV and Radio network, was gunned down in Surkhrod district, the office of the provincial governor said on January