By Farangis Najibullah Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 11, 2016 The Afghan government has sent a team of specialists to a northern province to repair electricity pylons blown up as fighting raged between security forces and Taliban insurgents. With the capital, Kabul, already facing blackouts since late January due to the destruction of several other
AOPNEWS | February 9, 2016 Baghlan: Afghan security forces said today that the Taliban have suffered heavy causalities in Baghlani-e Markazi – 8 insurgents have been reported killed, and a dozen wounded. A military base was also recaptured. One Afghan policeman was reported injured. A resident reported that two children and a woman were wounded
AOPNEWS | February 8, 2016 Badakhshan: Afghan officials say that 5 Pakistani spies who were pretending to be doctors have been arrested. The provincial police chief said that 2 men and a woman were detained in Kisham district, and a woman and a man were arrested in Baharak district. An Afghan pulic health official said
Tolo News: Kabul city has been without power for 13 days – almost two weeks that Afghan security forces have been trying to push back Taliban militants from the area where they blew up a power pylon. Officials from Da Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said that they do not know when they will be able to rebuild
AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, is home to more than five million people yet the city has no mayor. It has been over a year since the National Unity Government (NUG) was established – but until now the leaders have yet to appoint a mayor. Analysts say the lack of a city leader has led to numerous
February 1, 2016 – TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Militants and bad weather in northern Afghanistan have hampered efforts to repair power lines that were destroyed last week, cutting electricity in the capital, Kabul, to about six hours a day, officials said Monday. Insurgents last week destroyed an electricity pylon in the Dand Shahabuddin district of Baghlan
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 1, 2016 ISLAMABAD – A powerful suicide blast targeting a major police facility in the Afghan capital has killed at least 20 police officers and wounded 29 other people. The head of Kabul’s crime investigation department said security guards identified the suspected bomber as he moved toward the Afghan National Civil Order Police Headquarters
Khaama Press: “The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has received reports that as of mid-January 2016, militants were planning to attack an unknown hotel or guesthouse frequented by the international community in the Shar-e-Now area of Kabul City, Kabul Province, Afghanistan,” a statement released by U.S. Embassy in Kabul says. The statement further added that there is
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 20, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say a suicide car bomb attack near the Russian Embassy in the capital Kabul has killed at least four people, including three women. Health ministry director Mohammad Ismail Kawasi told VOA at least 28 other people were wounded in the blast Wednesday. No one has claimed