Ayaz Gul VOA News July 30, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials and Taliban sources in Afghanistan confirmed the Islamist insurgency has overrun another district in the southern Helmand province, which borders Pakistan. Taliban fighters staged a surprise assault on Khanashin overnight and fighting was still continuing in parts of the district, a provincial government spokesman told Afghan
KABUL, July 19 (Xinhua) — Eight Taliban militants including a key commander have been killed as clash erupted in Sangin district of the southern Helmand province on Tuesday, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here. “Eight Taliban terrorists including their key commander Mawlawi Agha have been killed in Sangin district today and their attempt
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 22, 2016 Afghan officials say a roadside bombing in an eastern provincial capital killed a police officer and a civilian on June 22. Abass Sadat, the deputy police chief of Nangarhar Province, said the explosion in the city of Jalalabad also wounded two civilians. Sadat said the bomb was probably
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 22, 2016 Afghan officials said on June 22 that the Taliban has freed 23 men who were kidnapped a day earlier by militants in southern Afghanistan. Omar Zwak, a spokesman for Helmand’s governor, said representatives of the governor’s office worked with tribal elders to intervene and “negotiated the issue
Tolo News: Officials of the Helmand provincial council and a senator in the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) said Sunday that the fighting in Helmand has temporarily decreased because Taliban fighters are too busy producing and smuggling drugs in the province. The officials said it was now the time for stepped-up action by security forces against
Tolo News: The Afghan Minister of Energy and Water and a Turkish company on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the extension of the Kajaki Dam in Helmand. The hydropower dam currently produces 33 megawatts of electricity but once extended it will provide up to 150 megawatts. Click here to read more (external link). Related
Khaama Press: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani visited the restive southern Helmand province today to review the security situation of the province which has been witnessing heavy clashes during the past several weeks. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani delivered a speech to the Afghan Army personnel in 215th Maiwand Corps in Lashkargah city.
VOA News June 5, 2016 A veteran American journalist and his Afghan translator were reported killed in Afghanistan Sunday, after coming under attack while traveling with an Afghan army unit in southern Helmand province. The U.S.-based National Public Radio identified the dead as photojournalist David Gilkey and translator Zabihullah Tammana. Two other journalists in their
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem June 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD—After days of heavy fighting, Afghan forces have regained control of parts of Helmand province previously in the Taliban hands. Neither the province of Helmand, nor its capital, Lashkar Gah, was in danger of falling to the Taliban, according to the Afghan Ministry of Defense. General Daulat Waziri,
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials said Tuesday that the Taliban took dozens of people hostage near the northern city of Kunduz. The insurgents apparently set up a check-point in a pre-dawn action on the main road near the provincial capital and stopped buses and vehicles heading to Kunduz from the national