RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 16, 2018 Afghanistan has returned the dead bodies of five Pakistani soldiers to Pakistan following clashes near the two countries’ disputed border, Afghan officials say. Hukum Khan Habibi, the governor of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost, said that one captured soldier was also handed over to Pakistan’s
Tolo News: At only 16 years of age, Afghanistan’s Mujeeb Zadran is making waves on the international cricket stage after taking a remarkable five wickets in a recent ODI. Zadran, who hails from Khost, has enjoyed a meteoric start to his international career. The 16-year-old Afghanistan spinner, whose uncle Noor Ali Zadran is also a national
KHOST, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Some 50 Taliban militants were killed and three others wounded in an airstrike against a militants’ hideout in eastern province of Khost, a local official said Saturday. “The strike was conducted in a remote locality in Piri area of Musa Khil district late on Friday evening,” district chief Gulab
VOA News / May 28, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A Taliban infiltrator has gunned down six government forces in southern Afghanistan, raising the number of army and police personnel killed by insurgents in the past week to nearly 100. Afghan and insurgent officials said Sunday the overnight “insider attack” incident took place at a
Ayaz Gul VOA News / May 27, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of government forces in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding six others. Officials said the attack in the eastern city of Khost targeted a special unit of Afghan forces providing security for U.S. troops
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 17, 2017 An Afghan official says a suicide car bombing near an army base in eastern Afghanistan has killed one soldier and wounded several others. Akbar Zadran, a district chief in the eastern province of Khost, said that the Taliban detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in front of the military base
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 3, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Senior Taliban officials say a suspected American drone strike has killed a key Taliban commander who told captured U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl “Don’t come back to Afghanistan” moments before releasing him to the U.S. military in a prisoner swap three years ago. The U.S. military, however,
Reuters: The wife of an American author who disappeared on a research trip in Afghanistan more than two years ago appealed for his freedom on Thursday in a Pakistani newspaper. Paul Overby, 74, went missing in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province shortly after May 17, 2014, the last contact he had with his family. He was hoping
Tolo News: Thousands of Afghan refugees in Khost province, who recently returned from north Waziristan, have said that Pakistan’s military intelligence agency (ISI) has been issuing false propaganda against Afghanistan and its people. According to one return refugee, Amir Khan: “There was propaganda in Pakistan that said the Afghan people and their government are infidels and Jihad
AOPNEWS | February 10, 2016 Baghlan: Local officials announced today that over 130 Taliban militants have been killed and 95 have been wounded as a result of Afghan military operations against them through out the province. The provincial governor, Abdul Sattar Bariz, said that so far 2 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 6 have