Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2016 A suicide bomber has killed six people and wounded six others at a meeting of tribal elders in the eastern province of Nangarhar. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the October 31 attack in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor
Press TV August 29, 2016 At least nine civilians have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan. According to Afghan officials, the first blast took place in the country’s southern province of Helmand on Monday, killing six people and wounding five others, including three women and
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say security forces have rescued an Australian aid worker, four months after she was kidnapped at gunpoint from her office in the country’s east. Two armed men posing as Afghan intelligence officers abducted Kerry Jane Wilson, 60, in April from the office of her
Press TV July 2, 2016 A major blast has rocked the Afghan city of Jalalabad in the eastern Nangarhar Province, killing at least two civilians and wounding 17 others. The Saturday explosion took place in the provincial capital when a bomber detonated his explosives in the third police district of the city, apparently meant to
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 11, 2016 At least 12 recruits in the Afghan National Army have been killed and dozens of people wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber who attacked the recruits’ bus near the eastern city of Jalalabad. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri confirmed the death toll in the April 11 suicide
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 2, 2016 A suicide attack targeted India’s diplomatic compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on March 2, with explosions and gunfire rattling the diplomatic district. RFE/RL’s correspondent in Jalalabad reports that a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-filled vehicle outside the entrance gates of the Indian consulate
VOA News Zabihullah Ghazi January 27, 2016 JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN—The Islamic State group in Afghanistan has added new programming to its radio broadcasts that the Afghan government has failed to take off the air. The IS-run FM station “Voice of the Caliphate,” which broadcasts from a remote mobile transmitter on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, this week added
A deadly extremist attack on northwest Pakistan’s Bacha Khan University contrasts starkly with the nonviolent methods employed by the Pashtun activist for whom the university is named. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 20, 2016 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Bacha Khan, advocated for the rights of his fellow Pashtuns in the British Raj
VOA News / January 17, 2016 Officials in eastern Afghanistan say a suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people and wounded 14. A spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial government said the bomber detonated his device Sunday morning in Jalalabad at the residential compound of Obaiduallah Shinwari, a prominent member of Nangarhar’s provincial council. Shinwari
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 5, 2016 An explosion has been heard in an area that houses several foreign consulate buildings in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, local officials say. Attaullah Khugyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said on January 5 that there were no immediate reports of casualties from the blast, which