Tolo News: The International Women’s Day was celebrated Tuesday in Afghanistan where only few weeks ago, a 20-year-old woman had her nose cut off by her husband in northwestern Faryab province. Afghans in Kabul and other parts of the country celebrated the day with holding rallies in support of women, donating blood, planting saplings and attending gatherings
Tolo News: Legislators from Faryab on Sunday said the ongoing counterinsurgency operation led by President Ashraf Ghani’s first vice president Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, was dramatic and that the operation is not being carried out strategically so as to permanently eliminate insurgents. MPS said this in turn fuels insurgents motivation and once the operation is over
Albawaba: Security personnel rescued dozens of passengers from militants in northern Faryab province, officials claimed on Saturday, Pajhwok reports. More than 50 passengers, travelling from Maimana to Kabul, were disembarked from three buses in Shekhha area on Friday evening, the Daulatabad district chief, Col. Naimatullah Tofan, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: A young girl in Faryab province who reportedly had a phone conversation with a strange man was allegedly subjected to a public lashing by the Taliban as punishment. Religious scholars have however slammed the action, calling it un-Islamic. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A new video reportedly recorded in Faryab province shows that a Taliban local commander Sayed Hashim Hashemi accuses Taliban’s new leader Mullah Akhter Mansour of having plotted the murder of the group’s longtime leader Mullah Omar. In the video, he warns Mullah Mansour of a severe response. Click here to read more (external link).
AOPNEWS | January 27, 2016 Helmand – Afghan officials say that Taliban militants gunned down 4 de-miners in Gerishk district. Nangarhar – Seven members of DAESH were arrested by provincial police after raids were made in Achin, Kot and Rodat districts. Also, officials said that a drone attack by the US military killed 5 militants,
AOPNEWS | January 25, 2016 Poverty, lack of adequate facilities and medical care in Afghanistan’s remote areas, and the cold weather is making it easy for diseases like pneumonia to kill people, especially children in Afghanistan. Health officials in Faryab province told Afghanistan’s Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) today that 2000 children have so far been
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 19, 2016 Officials in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Faryab say a young woman in a remote village has had her nose cut off by her husband. A photograph of the woman posted online has sparked anger in Afghanistan, with activists demanding punishment for the attacker. Hospital officials in the provincial capital