Daily Caller: The Taliban released a video of its forces proudly parading the streets of Waghaz, Afghanistan after taking it last month, but it is only the most recent example of the group’s brazen celebrations. The video, entitled the “Conquest of Waghaz,” was released Thursday on the Taliban propaganda website Voice of Jihad. It depicts Taliban fighters
Press TV / May 20, 2017 Taliban militants have launched an attack from three directions on parts of the central-eastern Afghan city of Ghazni. Provincial police chief Aminullah Amerkhil said the overnight attack was the fiercest launched by Taliban militants, who have had a strong presence in the province of Ghazni for years. Amerkhil said
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — Gun battle between government forces and Taliban has left nine insurgents dead and injured seven others on Saturday, army spokesman in the restive province Mohammad Hanif Rezai said. “Taliban rebels attacked some security checkpoints in Andar district early Saturday triggering gun battle during which nine armed enemies have been
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Clashes between security forces and Taliban militants in the eastern Ghazni province left 11 armed insurgents dead and injured nine others on Saturday night, a senior army officer in the province General Nizamudin Khanjar said Sunday. “Government forces in crackdown against Taliban rebels in Muqar, Andar and Gero districts
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 4, 2016 At least 35 people have died after a passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in southern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said on September 4 that the road accident occurred in the province of Zabul as the bus was on its way from Kandahar to
Press TV June 8, 2016 At least 12 civilians have been killed and 50 others abducted in two separate attacks by unknown militants on passengers traveling in eastern and northern Afghanistan. Jawid Salangi, an official in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, said that armed men had stopped two cars, ordered all those on board out
VOA News June 1, 2016 Five civilians and a policeman were killed when Taliban gunmen stormed a courthouse in Eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. A suicide bomber detonated outside the courthouse of Ghazni, allowing the three gunmen to enter the building. An hour-long gunfight ended in all three assailants being killed by police forces. In a
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, April 27 (Xinhua) — One civilian was killed and two others injured as a bomb blast struck a car in the eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Fahim Amiri said. “A magnetic bomb attached in a car of tribal elder Hajji Mirza Mohammad exploded at around 01:00 p.m. local time today
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 13, 2016 The chief of police in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province has warned that several districts in the central province may fall to the Taliban if the government in Kabul does not take urgent measures. According to local media reports, Aminullah Amarkhil said on March 13 that eight districts are on
The Mirror: The jihadis were in a training session on the manufacture and use of explosives at a madrasa – a religious seminary – in the village of Mastofi in Ghazni province. An explosion ripped through a bomb making lesson at a Taliban base, killing seven militants.The jihadis were in a training session on the manufacture