Khaama Press: At least five soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) commando forces lost their lives in an airstrike allegedly carried out by the US forces in Afghanistan. The airstrike was reportedly carried out in western Farah province of Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents and militants belonging to the other insurgent groups are actively operating. Click
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 30, 2016 The UN mission in Afghanistan has condemned the killing of at least 15 civilians in what it says was an unmanned U.S. drone strike in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on September 30 called upon the Afghan government and international military
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 29, 2016 A senior U.S. official says an international conference scheduled for next week in Brussels is expected to bring pledges totaling more than $3 billion in development support for Afghanistan through the year 2020. Richard Olson, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, made the remarks on September
Press TV September 28, 2016 A US drone strike has killed at least 21 people in the eastern Nangarhar province, with Afghan sources saying that more than a dozen of them were civilians. Esmatullah Shinwari, a Nangarhar lawmaker, told the Associated Press that a crowd had gathered at the tribal leader’s house in the Achin
1TV: Taliban has branded Donald Trump as non-serious after the group watched a debate between the U.S. presidential runner and his rival from a secret location in Afghanistan, it has been reported. “Trump… [says] anything that comes to his tongue,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told NBC News. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 24, 2016 The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says neighboring Pakistan has not yet placed “adequate pressure” on the Haqqani Network of militants to prevent them from plotting deadly cross-border attacks. Afghan authorities allege leaders of the group, which is fighting alongside the Taliban, are directing “high-profile”
Engadget.com: The Library of Congress has completed a three-year project to digitize 163,000 documents relating to the cultural history of Afghanistan, and this week officials handed over these hard drives to the Afghan Minister of Information and Culture, Abdul Bari Jahani, and Abdul Wahid Wafa, Executive Director of the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University. The collection
The National Interest: “If fundamentalism comes to Afghanistan, war will continue for many more years. Afghanistan will be turned into a center for terrorism.” These words, spoken on March 10, 1992, through an overwhelmed translator, stand in time as the final plea of a man at the helm of a dying regime. Click here to read
Masood Farivar VOA News September 20, 2016 After the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting in June, many Afghan-Americans distanced themselves from attacker Omar Mateen, the New York-born man whose parents immigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s. After the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey in which Afghan-born Ahmad Khan Rahami has been implicated, some
Press TV September 19, 2016 At least eight police officers have been killed in US airstrikes in Afghanistan’s embattled central province of Uruzgan, officials say. A military commander said Monday one officer was killed in an initial airstrike targeting police checkpoint in the Saki area of Tirin Kot while seven others were killed in a follow-up strike.