VOA News May 23, 2017 ISLAMABAD — A Taliban attack on a military base in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 11 government soldiers and wounded as many others, while a major insurgent offensive on a remote western district has triggered deadly clashes. A Defense Ministry statement said Tuesday the overnight Taliban assault targeted the military
Press TV May 16, 2017 Afghan forces have recaptured a key district in the northern province of Kunduz from the Taliban militant group, which has stepped up its deadly attacks against government and civilian targets in recent weeks. On Tuesday, the National Security Forces (ANSF) regained control of the Qala-e-Zal district, which had fallen to
Tolo News: The family of a soldier who was killed in Friday’s attack on the Afghan National Army’s 209 Shaheen Corps Headquarters in Balkh province said they were shocked by the large number of dead bodies they saw and that they want justice to be served on those who failed to prevent the attack. Click here
Tolo News: The former president said after Friday’s army base attack he can no longer call the Taliban brothers. In a rare change of tone, former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday labeled the Taliban as an insurgent group, saying he will no longer see the Taliban as “brothers”. Karzai’s policy shift on the Taliban comes
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News March 29, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan is expected to get up to 200 helicopters and other aircraft as part of a four-year plan to improve the nation’s security forces to help beat the Taliban insurgency, according to Dawlat Waziri, the spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry. Waziri said discussion of the plan
AFP: Afghanistan has announced fresh initiatives to bring more women into the army, weeks after the country’s first female pilot sparked a national debate on insecurity and women’s rights by seeking asylum in the US. The defence ministry wants to boost the proportion of women in the army to 10 percent, deputy ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanesh
Noor Zahid VOA News January 13, 2017 The Afghan Government on Thursday pushed back against a U.S. Inspector General’s report that said Afghan forces are losing significant territory to Taliban insurgents and are not capable of keeping the nation secure. “These calculations are not constant,” Mohammad Radmanesh, a spokesperson for the Afghan defense ministry, told
Khaama Press: A senior general of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces sustained injuries in a roadside bomb explosion in central Logar province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed the vehicle of the commander of 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan National Army struck a roadside bomb during an operation in Charkh district. Click
AP: Captain Safia Ferozi, who was a refugee since childhood, is now flying a transport aircraft for Afghanistan air force. She is country’s second female pilot. This is a sign of the efforts being made by Afghanistan government to bring more women into the armed forces. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghanistan’s female
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 29, 2016 A top general in the Afghan National Army has been killed, and at least seven other officials have been injured, in a military helicopter crash in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Badghis. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry told RFE/RL that General Mohayedin Ghori, the army corps commander for