By Habibur Rahman Taseer Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 30, 2020 GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Hamidullah, a young resident of the southeastern Afghan city of Ghazni, recently had a harrowing experience. While returning from a trip to the southern city of Kandahar this month, the Taliban stopped the bus he had taken for the
By RFE/RL Gandhara October 25, 2020 Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior Al-Qaeda leader who was also wanted by the United States. Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security said in a tweet on October 24 that Masri, believed to be the No. 2 figure in Al-Qaeda, was killed by special forces in central Ghazni Province. It
AA: At least 14 members of a family have been killed in two landmine blasts in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, officials said on Friday. The incident took place in the Spin Boldak district along the border crossing with Pakistan, police spokesman Jamal Nasir told Anadolu Agency. He said a van and a truck carrying civilians struck
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 6, 2020 Taliban militants and Afghan civilians have been killed in attacks and clashes across Afghanistan amid peace efforts aimed at ending the nearly 19-year war. Defense Ministry spokesman Fawad Aman said at least 16 Taliban militants were killed in two separate clashes with government forces in the eastern province
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 8, 2020 At least six Afghan police officers have been killed in two separate Taliban bombings amid a surge in attacks across the war-torn country. Three officers were reported killed and 20 other people wounded in a truck bomb explosion in the southern province of Kandahar on July 8. The
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 23, 2020 Afghan officials say dozens of Taliban fighters staged overnight raids and stormed several checkpoints in the northern part of the country, killing at least 14 security personnel. The violence early on June 23 comes after authorities this week accused the Taliban of increasing attacks on Afghan forces at
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | May 18, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – A car bomb attack on an intelligence base in central Ghazni province in Afghanistan early Monday morning killed at least seven members of the security forces and wounded 40 others. Dr. Baser Ramaki, head of the Ghazni provincial hospital that received both the bodies
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 28, 2020 Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of the crew killed when a military aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. The Bombardier E-11A, used for military communications, went down in a snowy part of eastern Afghanistan on
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 27, 2020 A plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27 but details about the incident remain unclear. A Taliban spokesman says that the plane was a U.S. military aircraft. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a U.S. Air Force plane crashed in the Ghazni Province, which sits in the foothills
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 14, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Saturday Taliban infiltrators have killed at least 25 government security forces in the eastern volatile Ghazni province. The overnight insider attack happened in the Qarabagh district where a group of seven security personnel Friday night turned their guns on fellow soldiers at