Drug addicts in Farah City in Afghanistan’s Farah Province say they have been forced to work without pay for the local police. They claim they were made to work away from prying eyes on construction sites inside military compounds. The provincial offices of Afghanistan’s Labor and Social Affairs Ministry confirmed the allegations, but the local
Tolo News: Gen. Yasin Zia, Chief of Army Staff, who is in south of the country following an increase in Taliban attacks, said on Thursday that more al-Qaeda members have been killed in operations by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in a Taliban-influenced area in Farah province in the last few days. “The Taliban
Tolo News: At least four people were killed and two more wounded after a car bomb exploded near Farah city police headquarters on Wednesday, local officials said. Dadullah Qani, a member of the Farah provincial council, confirmed to TOLOnews that the car bomb targeted the vehicle of Abdul Qader, the deputy commander of the Farah
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 5, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghan officials said Friday fresh fighting in the southern province of Zabul has killed at least 15 members of the security force and 12 Taliban insurgents. Separately, the United States military reported it has also conducted airstrikes in the south and elsewhere in Afghanistan to disrupt
Tolo News: The provincial governor and a Farah MP both claim that an airstrike killed five civilians who were businessmen traveling on Saturday from Farah city to Abu Nasar Farahi Port when their vehicle was targeted. “The governor is in charge here … the governor must answer about who killed them,” said Abdul Ghafar Arman,
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News January 8, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Two Afghan pilots died in a military helicopter crash in Farah province in western Afghanistan Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the MI 35 gunship was on its way from the provincial capital to the Pur Chaman district in the east of the province. MoD
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 26, 2019 Twenty-seven Afghan peace activists who were kidnapped by the Taliban in the country’s west have been freed “after being held by the militants for 45 hours,” an official has said. The activists from the People’s Peace Movement (PPM) were released “without harm,” PPM spokesman Bismillah Watan Dost said on December
Tolo News: A group of Farah residents gathered in Farah city on Sunday to protest the killing of nine civilians who they claim were targeted in an airstrike in Posht Rod district on Saturday. They brought the bodies on Saturday evening to the governor’s office and called for an investigation into the incident. Click here to
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 9, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The United Nations said Wednesday recent U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug-processing facilities in Afghanistan that killed more than 30 civilians, including children, were “not lawful.” The casualties occurred last May in western Farah and adjoining Nimroz provinces where the U.S. bombed more than 60 sites, identifying
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 16, 2019 At least seven people have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan while one-third of the country was hit by a blackout. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the police chief of the western Farah Province, said five people, including women and children, were killed when a roadside bomb hit