1TV: A 53-year-old man working as a health worker with Red Crescent has died due to coronavirus in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, officials said Wednesday. It brings up the total number of coronavirus deaths in Afghanistan to 15. Afghanistan has registered 423 cases of coronavirus so far. Click here to read more (external link). Related
1TV: Taliban militants have shot dead eight civilians in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, police said Wednesday. Adil Shah Adil, a spokesman for provincial police, said that the violence happened on Tuesday evening after the victims were abducted from Jarhay Nahr-e-Surkh village of Sholgara district. Click here to read more (external link). Related ’15 Taliban’ Killed
Tolo News: The Nawroz festival, which is held every year in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif on the solar new year and usually draws thousands of people, was canceled this year over the coronavirus outbreak in the country. A customary ceremony was held at the mosque, but the event took place on Thursday night and was
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 26, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Angry residents Sunday rallied in a northern province of Afghanistan to protest the killing of at least seven civilians in an Afghan air force airstrike. Protesters, carrying bodies of the victims, said three women and three children belonging to the same family were among those killed
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 14, 2020 KABUL — Two children have been killed and at least nine other people wounded after two bombs went off near-simultaneously in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, officials say. Adil Shah Adil, the spokesman for Balkh Province’s police chief, said the blasts took place on a road
Women in Afghanistan have had to overcome many social and cultural taboos, including driving a car. Lailuma Ehsan, a female driving instructor in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, says getting women behind the wheel is vital as they continue to push for independence. VOA’s Mirwais Bezhan has more in this report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 4, 2020 An explosion during the morning rush hour in the northern Afghan province of Balkh has killed a local resident and wounded at least two others, police said, adding the victims were civilians. The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device attached to a vehicle, Balkh police
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 26, 2019 At least six Afghan soldiers have been killed in a powerful suicide car bombing that targeted a military compound in the country’s northern Balkh Province in the early morning of December 26, officials say. After the bomber detonated the explosives-packed car, a group of militants stormed the compound,
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 24, 2019 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Officials in Afghanistan say Taliban insurgents have attacked an army base in the northern Balkh province, killing at least seven Afghan soldiers and wounding six others. The Ministry of Defense in Kabul said Tuesday the overnight “enemy” assault targeted a base in the Dawlat Abad
Tolo News: Gen. Khoshal Sadat, the deputy interior minister, ordered the arrest of former local forces commander Nizamuddin Qaisari in the northern province of Balkh and deployed 60 members of the police special unit from Kabul, Balkh Police Chief Gen. Ajmal Fayez said. The police chief said they are not regretting conducting the operation – which