Xinhua: Fighting between government forces and Taliban militants on a highway in Afghan northern Jauzjan province claimed the lives of three militants on Monday, said deputy to provincial police chief Abdul Hafiz Khashi. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Atta Mohammad Noor, acting governor of northern Balkh province, on Sunday said Daesh insurgents are trying to infiltrate the province. He confirmed the presence of Daesh in Balkh and said security forces discovered documents during the Khorshid 21 military operation in the province. He said the documents show signs of the group’s presence in the
KABUL, March 3 (Xinhua) — A bloody conflict between security forces and Taliban militants have claimed the lives of 10 armed insurgents in the northern Jauzjan province, while a bomb blast attributed to the Taliban outfit injured 24 civilians in the neighboring Balkh province on Thursday, officials said. “Ten Taliban fighters have been killed and
Khaama Press: According to the local government officials, the victim (suspect’s wife) visited the prison to meet her husband who has been serving in connection to the murder of a journalist since last year. The provincial security chief Abdul Raziq Qaderi said the incident took place on Thursday and the suspect was looking to commit suicide as
AOPNEWS | February 8, 2016 Badakhshan: Afghan officials say that 5 Pakistani spies who were pretending to be doctors have been arrested. The provincial police chief said that 2 men and a woman were detained in Kisham district, and a woman and a man were arrested in Baharak district. An Afghan pulic health official said
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (Xinhua)– At least 18 army personnel were wounded in a blast as a bomb targeted an Afghan army bus in the country’s northern province of Balkh on Monday morning, police said. “The stricken minibus was running near army Corps 209 Shaheen in southwestern outskirts of provincial capital. The blast caused 18
Tolo News: Balkh police chief Sayed Kamal Sadat on Tuesday said Pakistani military officers were behind the Indian consulate attack in Mazar-e-Sharif earlier this month. He said the attackers, officers from across the border, were well-trained military men who fought Afghan security forces in the 25-hour siege. “We saw with our own eyes and I can say 99
Khaama Press: Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Amar Sinha has said that the terrorist attack on India’s consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif would not deter ties between New Delhi and Kabul. “Such attacks would further strengthen ties between the two countries,” he told reporters during a visit to the consulate that was under attack for about 25 hours. Click
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say security forces have killed all four heavily armed assailants who have been holed up since Sunday night in a building near India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told VOA at least one security personnel
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say that several heavily-armed assailants were still holed up in a building just meters from India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and a gunfight fight was underway with national security forces. The siege in the Balkh province began Sunday night when a group of