VOA News February 21, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A global watchdog is calling on Afghan authorities and the U.S. military to promptly investigate allegations local forces summarily executed civilians during recent counter-Taliban operations in the southern Kandahar province. The alleged abuses occurred from January 31 to February 1 when Afghan special forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, undertook
Tolo News: Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq responded to recent rumors about his removal from the position, saying that he has not been appointed by the government and that the state cannot remove him. He made the remarks in an interview with a local radio station in Kandahar. Raziq said the government is a coalition
Ayaz Gul VOA News / December 22, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say a suicide bombing early Friday killed at least six policemen and wounded 10 others, including an area commander, in southern Kandahar province. The bomber rammed his explosives-filed four-wheel drive military light truck, commonly known as Humvee, into a police station in the Maiwand
Tolo News: Kandahar’s powerful police chief general Abdul Raziq on Thursday warned that the dismissal of Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor would have significant implications on the security situation in the province. Meanwhile, a leading figure of Jamiat-e-Islami, a party where Noor is serving as chief executive, has said that Noor is ready to step down
Ayaz Gul VOA News / December 17, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations is calling on all parties in the Afghan conflict to facilitate health workers in conducting Monday’s urgent polio vaccination campaign in a volatile southern district with the highest number of polio virus cases of any district in the world. U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Toby
UNAMA: “These performances reflect the prevailing challenges children face in our communities,” said Ezathullah Shamshad, a teacher at the Ghazi Ayoub High School in Kandahar’s Maiwand district. He added that the Maiwand performance sent a positive message to parents and teachers on how to protect children from recruitment by armed groups and forces. Click here to
1TV: Twenty-two police were killed when Taliban attacked checkpoints overnight in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, the provincial police said Tuesday. Fifteen more police were injured in attacks which targeted checkpoints in Maiwand and Zherai districts. The clashes also left 45 militants killed and 35 more injured. Click here to read more (external link). Related Farah: Eight
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 28, 2017 At least 12 members of the Afghan security forces were killed when a suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed Humvee blew himself up in the southern province of Kandahar, police said on September 28. The deadly attack on the government and police headquarters in Maroof district was claimed by
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 3, 2017 The U.S. military in Afghanistan says four American troops were wounded in a suicide car-bomb attack in the southern part of the country, in addition to two service members who were killed. The Pentagon confirmed on August 2 that two U.S. soldiers died in the attack on a
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 2, 2017 ISLAMABAD — NATO’s military mission confirms an attack Wednesday on its convoy in southern Afghanistan has caused casualties. “We are working to gather additional information as quickly as possible and will release more details as appropriate,” the alliance said in a statement released from its headquarters in Kabul. A