Khaama Press: A statement released by the police headquarters of Nangarhar states that the gun battle erupted around 04:30 pm (local time) on Monday. According to the statement, insurgents had planned to attack a security post in Saluram Farm area of Bati Kot District. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: Qari Saifuddin Sadat, chief of the High Peace Council (HPC) for northern Samangan province has been gunned down close to his residence in the provincial capital Aibak. Click here to read more (external link).
BBC: The Afghan government and its US and Nato allies have been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan for the past 14 years. But, despite the killing of thousands of militants, the insurgent group has retaken big chunks of the country. There are three main reasons for this resurgence. Click here to read more (external link).
The Washington Post: Barely a year after the last American advisors departed, Sangin, a rural district in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, is reportedly on the edge of falling to the Taliban, the last police there under siege in what used to be NATO’s Forward Operating Base Jackson. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say security forces have killed all four heavily armed assailants who have been holed up since Sunday night in a building near India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told VOA at least one security personnel
Khaama Press: Police have found the dead bodies of five soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) who went missing on Kabul-Kandahar highway about a week ago. Deputy Police Chief of Ghazni province said the dead bodies were recovered from Dasht-e-Asfandi area and shifted to the civil hospital in Ghazni city this morning. Click here to read more
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say that several heavily-armed assailants were still holed up in a building just meters from India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and a gunfight fight was underway with national security forces. The siege in the Balkh province began Sunday night when a group of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 4, 2016 Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says a suicide bomber has carried out an attack on a police checkpoint near Kabul airport, killing himself but causing no other fatalities. City police in Kabul said the suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a vehicle on January 4 in an area close to
VOA News / January 3, 2016 Unidentified militants attempted to storm the Indian consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif Sunday as gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades rocked the surrounding area, a spokesman for the local governor told VOA. Munir Ahmad Farhad said the gunmen fired the rockets from a building across the street from
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 3, 2016 Officials in Kabul say an Afghan National Army helicopter has crashed in the province of Logar to the south of Kabul, killing three Afghan soldiers. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said the Russian-built Mi-17 helicopter crashed on January 3 as a result of technical problems. He said two