Tolo News: Baghlan local police said Friday Taliban has raised their white flag in parts of the province, including along the Baghlan-Kunduz highway. According to local police, they would need to launch an operation in order to remove the flags. “Taliban exist in the area and we are unable to remove their flags. Government should launch
New Zealand Heard: Credible sources are emerging to cast doubt on NZ Defence Force denials civilians were killed during an NZSAS “revenge” raid in Afghanistan. As calls for an inquiry into claims in Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s new book Hit & Run grow, the NZ Defence Force has refused any comment or interviews beyond a
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — Taliban militants shot dead two former policemen in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Wednesday, police spokesman Mahfozullah Akbari confirmed. According to the official, both victims had served as local policemen and were gunned by Taliban in Khalozai area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district in Baghlan province Wednesday morning. Taliban
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 6, 2017 An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed at least seven coal miners in northern Afghanistan, revising the death toll which was earlier put at 13. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that the miners were
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — Five commuters perished and 15 others sustained injuries in a traffic collision in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, a local official said. The crash involved a car colliding with a bus coming from opposite direction in the northern Baghlan province with Pul-e-Khumri as its capital 160 km north of Kabul,
The Interpreter: As planting season started in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan this spring, so did the fighting. One farmer, Ibrahim (he uses only one name), and his family had barely tilled their land when they had to leave. Fighting had been close by for most of the past year, but now it was in
Press TV September 14, 2016 Suspected militants have killed at least five people, including a former warlord, in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan, local Afghan authorities say. According to Jawed Basharat, the spokesman for the provincial police chief, the Wednesday ambush targeted Samar, known by a single name, who served as a commander during the 1980s struggle
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD — A new report finds state security forces in Afghanistan are increasingly using schools in Taliban-held areas for combat missions, threatening children’s lives and education. Human Rights Watch in its report released Wednesday has demanded the government take immediate steps to stop putting schools at the center of
Press TV August 15, 2016 At least two people have been injured in a bomb explosion near the US embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, police say. The blast occurred at a main square near the embassy and the country’s Supreme Court on Monday. Police said the blast was caused by a magnetic bomb attached to a military
Press TV August 14, 2016 Nearly a dozen Afghan police officers have been killed and several others injured in a series of attacks by the Taliban militants in the country’s troubled north and east, local security officials say. In the first incident, at least two police officers were killed and nine others were wounded in