Tolo News: Baghlan police said on Friday troops have broken through the Taliban’s defense line in Dand-e Ghori and have almost cleared the area of insurgents. Baghlan police said that after days of fighting, the security forces finally broke through the Taliban’s defense line and that the troops are now moving forward, towards the center of
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, March 3 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces after weeks of heavy battle recaptured Dand-e-Ghori district in northern Baghlan province and dislodged Taliban militants from the area, provincial governor Abdul Sattar Bariz said Thursday.
Bakhtar News Agency: Pul-e-Khumri (BNA) A strong earthquake jolted northwest of the country at 12:05 pm today. Mohammad Nasir Kohzad head of counter-disaster in Baghlan said BNA, the center of the earthquake was Baghlan province, but said nothing about the damages and casualties of the earthquake so far. The news will update as more information comes available.
Khaama Press: An Afghan woman has killed a Taliban commander over home privacy breach in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, security officials said Friday. Provincial police spokesman, Jawed Basharat, said the incident took place in Khwajah Bahauddin district of Baghlan province late on Thursday night. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: The electricity of capital Kabul was restored late on Monday evening after weeks of blackout following the destruction of electricity pylons in northern Baghlan province. The officials in Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, Afghanistan’s national power utility, said the technicians managed to repair the damaged pylons in Dand-e-Shahabuddin district of Baghlan after the area was cleared
KABUL, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces during operations against Taliban militants have killed six armed insurgents in the northern Jauzjan province with Shiberghan as its capital 390 km north of Kabul on Sunday, an army spokesman in the province, Reza Rezae said. “The clash erupted after Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Qoshtapa
Tolo News: Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs Gulab Mangal on Saturday defended the controversial Dand-e-Ghori deal and said that the agreement led to peace in Baghlan province. The statement comes after Mangal came under fire from critics recently over the signing of the controversial deal with the Taliban. Critics have blasted officials for having signed a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 20, 2016 Electricity is expected to soon be restored in the Afghan capital, weeks after insurgents destroyed cables from Uzbekistan providing power to Kabul. Wahidullah Tawhidi, spokesman for the Afghan electricity directorate, said on February 20 that the military had cleared Taliban-linked fighters from the area of northern Baghlan Province
Tolo News: Ghulam Hussain, the head of Baghlan electricity department said on Friday that the authorities have managed to reconnect two circuits on the main transmission lines transferring electricity from Tajikistan to the Afghan capital Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
By Farangis Najibullah Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 11, 2016 The Afghan government has sent a team of specialists to a northern province to repair electricity pylons blown up as fighting raged between security forces and Taliban insurgents. With the capital, Kabul, already facing blackouts since late January due to the destruction of several other