ICRC: On September 6th opened the new pediatric ward of Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar. A rehabilitated structure standing proudly in the hospital compound, among the trees that provide a welcoming shade from what has been a blistering hot summer. As the last drop of fresh paint dried up, young patients were wheeled in from the old
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan has staged a major overnight battlefield assault in a southern province, killing at least 16 police personnel and capturing two outposts. A local security official told VOA on Friday the fighting erupted in the district of Maiwand in Kandahar, saying Afghan forces
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 11, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The United Arab Emirates has confirmed the killing of five of its diplomats in Tuesday’s bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. The blast killed a total of at least 11 people and wounded 16 others, mostly top Afghan government officials. Provincial governor Homayun Azizi and
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 2, 2017 Afghan officials have arrested four suspects in the killing last month of five female airport employees and their driver in the southern province of Kandahar. Security officials brought three of the suspects to a press conference in Kandahar late on January 1, saying the men had admitted to
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say gunmen have shot dead six government workers, including five women in southern Kandahar province. The early morning attack occurred when unknown assailants ambushed and sprayed with bullets a minivan transporting the female Kandahar airport security staff to work. The deadly attack also left the
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — About 23 Afghan civilians had been killed by militants during the military conflict in a restive district in the country’s southern province of Kandahar within two days, the provincial police chief said on Friday. “Hundreds of militants stormed remote Nash district in an effort to capture the district control
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) — Four police personnel died following a shooting incident in a police checkpoint in Kandahar city, capital of Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar on Thursday, sources said. “A clash over an internal matter erupted between policemen manning a security checkpoint in Breshna Kot locality of the city at midday. Several
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 19, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The U.S. military says one of its service members and an American civilian were killed Wednesday in a shooting near a coalition base in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Another service member and two U.S. civilians sustained injuries and were in stable condition, according to an official announcement.
Khaama Press: The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar General Abdul Raziq has said he will not return to Kandahar until Tarinkot city is fully cleared of Taliban insurgents. Tarinkot city is the provincial capital of southern Uruzgan province which witnessed heavy clashes last week as the Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated to capture its control. Click
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR): “My husband was not only smoking heroin but also stealing others people’s things,” she told IWPR, adding that he had also taken all the money she earned as a seamstress and sold all their household goods. “Then people started coming to our home and asked me to pay for what