Radio Mashaal / RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 23, 2021 CHAMAN, Pakistan — Despite allegations of a massacre near a border crossing between southern Afghanistan and Pakistan, foot traffic is resuming across this normally bustling trade and travel crossroads in South Asia. The partial reopening at a key point of the Afghan-Pakistani border follows a purported
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 16, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Friday an international award-winning journalist from India had been killed during pre-dawn fighting in embattled southern Kandahar province. Danish Seddiqi, a Reuters photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, was covering clashes between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district, which
Fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants broke out in the southern city of Kandahar on July 9, leaving at least 18 people dead and more than 100 wounded. Government troops say the militants have seized homes in residential neighborhoods, forcing civilians to flee and complicating efforts to drive the Taliban out of
Radio Azadi July 10, 2021 Deadly clashes between Afghan forces and the Taliban in and around the southern city of Kandahar have continued into a second day. The Afghan military said on July 10 that dozens of insurgents have been killed in fighting in Kandahar’s Seventh Police District and the provincial capital’s surrounding Dand district.
It’s called Bush Market, after the U.S. president who ordered U.S. forces into Afghanistan in 2001. Here, you can buy what the Americans did not take with them when they handed over their base at Kandahar to the Afghan military in mid-May. But amid claims that weapons and munitions are traded, officials insist that
Ariana: Mir Abdul Nabi Bangulzai one of the top commanders of the “pro-independence” armed group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) was killed Thursday morning in an armed attack in Kandahar province of Afghanistan, Pakistani media outlets reported. Click here to read more (external link).
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 14, 2021 Afghan officials say a blast at a mosque in a northern Kabul neighborhood killed at least 12 worshippers on the second day of a cease-fire declared by the government and the Taliban. Fifteen other people were wounded when a bomb exploded inside the mosque during Friday Prayers on May
Radio Free Afghanistan May 13, 2021 Four separate bomb attacks have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 13 others just hours after a three-day cease-fire took effect as Afghanistan celebrates the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Fighting has been soaring ahead of a planned pullout of remaining
Radio Free Afghanistan May 6, 2021 Taliban fighters have captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam and two Afghan Army bases, militants and officials said, as fighting escalates amid the ongoing pullout of U.S. and international forces from the war-wracked country. Dahla Dam, also known as Arghandab Dam, is located in the Shah Wali Kot district of the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 7, 2021 A Taliban spokesman says insurgents targeted an airbase in southern Afghanistan where international troops are based. If confirmed, it would be the first attack against foreign forces that the Taliban has claimed responsibility for since the United States signed a deal with the Taliban in February 2020. Kandahar