Tolo News: A Mullah at Imam Abu Hanifa mosque was shot dead by unknown gunmen in northern Parwan province, local officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night in Charikar city of Parwan when Mullah Mohammad Agha Habibi was on his way home, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. Click here to
Khaama Press: A son of the former Defense Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak has been gunned down in capital Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Monday that the Afghan Air Force (AAF) will receive additional combat aircraft within the next three weeks. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: “This offensive is enabled by sanctuaries in Pakistan. And it has also been enabled by an internecine struggle among different Taliban factions and with a new factor in Afghanistan, Da’esh, the Islamic State, which is seeking inroads there as well,” David Sedney told PBS during an interview published on Sunday. Click here to read
VOA News / December 28, 2015 Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bomber struck on a road near Kabul’s airport Monday, killing at least one person and wounding several others. The French news agency reports a Taliban spokesman says the militants were responsible for the attack on a foreign forces convoy. The attack comes one
KABUL, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) — Fighting in militancy-plagued Afghanistan has claimed 19 lives including seven civilians over the past two days, officials said Sunday. In the latest violent incident, three people including two police constables and a civilian lost their lives as a bomb went off in the former Taliban stronghold of Helmand province on
Robert Fisk: Isis men are now fighting in their thousands in the country we arrived to “liberate” 14 years ago, quite apart from tens of thousands of Taliban “pushing” in to their “heartland” around Sangin. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: The Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Alexander Mantytskiy briefed the Afghan authorities regarding the reports surrounding Moscow’s attempts to establish a communication channel with Taliban in fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group affiliates in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty December 27, 2015 The Taliban has denied that it held talks with Russian officials about efforts to combat Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan as a British newspaper reported that President Vladimir Putin had met the group’s leader earlier this year. The insurgent group was responding to December 23
VOA News / December 27, 2015 Afghan officials say a militia controlled by a prominent lawmaker beheaded four Islamic State militants in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The militia members, loyal to Zahir Qadir, deputy speaker of parliament, have been fighting with IS-affiliated gunmen in the region for weeks. IS fighters recently captured four militia