Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 12, 2016 Two separate attacks targeting members of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority during the festival of Ashura have left several dozen people dead and scores wounded. In the latest attack, at least 14 people were killed on October 12 in a bomb attack outside a mosque in the northern province of
Khaama Press: The Kabul Garrison has prohibited the Enlightenment Movement to organize further demonstrations in Kabul following a deadly attack that left at least 85 people dead. General Gul Nabi Ahmadzai, the commander of Kabul Garrison, told reporters in Kabul today that the decision to ban the movement from organizing further demonstrations was taken in line with
1TV: Huge fire incident ripped through a major fuel market in outskirts of Kabul on Tuesday, days after a major wood market caught fire. The incident has taken place around 09:00 am local time in Qala-e-Haidar Khan area of the city in the 5th police district. Click here to read more (external link). Related Huge fire incident
Khaama Press: An explosion rocked Kabul city earlier today after a magnetic bomb planted in a police vehicle went off in Deh Mazang area of the city. Security officials confirmed the incident and said one person was wounded in the blast but the eyewitnesses in the area said one person was killed and another one was
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber in a police uniform detonated his device near the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Monday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 90 others. Afghanistan’s Tolo TV reported that the ministry’s senior commander, General Abdul Raziq, along with the intelligence chief for
Tolo News: Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Monday said that the ministry recently registered two new polio incidents in the country. Maiwand Ahmadzai, head of the polio department at the health ministry said that one incident had been registered in Kabul and the other in Paktika. This comes as the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and
Tolo News: Thousands of football fans attended Afghanistan’s Roshan Afghan Premier League (RAPL) 2016 opening ceremony in Kabul on Thursday. Afghan Star contestants performed this year’s new theme song while team captain’s walked out on field waving their respective flags. The opening match scheduled later Thursday will see last year’s winners De Spinghar Bazan from the eastern zone
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 24, 2016 KABUL — At least 12 people, including seven students, were killed during a 10-hour assault by gunmen on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. The attack began on August 24 with a large explosion that officials said was a car bomb followed by gunfire as the
Press TV August 15, 2016 At least two people have been injured in a bomb explosion near the US embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, police say. The blast occurred at a main square near the embassy and the country’s Supreme Court on Monday. Police said the blast was caused by a magnetic bomb attached to a military
Press TV August 6, 2016 At least five Afghan police officers have been killed in an explosion that hit the Khak Jabar district in the southeastern part of Kabul Province. Among the victims of the late Friday incident was commander of the Public Order Police Forces (POPF) General Abdul Satar Hashemi, said the provincial governor’s