Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 7, 2020 U.S. officials say an American appears to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan by a group linked to Taliban militants. The officials on February 6 said they believe that 57-year-old Mark Frerichs of Illinois was kidnapped by the Haqqani network, which is based in Khost. It was not immediately
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 26, 2019 Twenty-seven Afghan peace activists who were kidnapped by the Taliban in the country’s west have been freed “after being held by the militants for 45 hours,” an official has said. The activists from the People’s Peace Movement (PPM) were released “without harm,” PPM spokesman Bismillah Watan Dost said on December
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 5, 2019 Afghan special forces have rescued 12 people from a Taliban prison in the country’s south on the same day that the militants kidnapped a group of 15 government employees in the west, officials said. The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the country’s main intelligence agency, said in a
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 20, 2018 KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — The Taliban has reportedly rejected an offer by the Afghan government for a cease-fire, with militant commanders vowing to carry on their attacks after Taliban fighters in the north seized nearly 200 hostages from a convoy of passenger buses. A Taliban spokesman said Taliban leader
Ayaz Gul Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News August 20, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Most of the bus passengers kidnapped by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan have been released following mediation by Afghan tribal elders. Minister of Interior advisor Bahar Mehr said insurgents are still holding 12 passengers from three buses seized early Monday in Kunduz province. Each bus
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 14, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Afghan Taliban is demanding freedom for a member of the militant Haqqani network along with other insurgent prisoners in exchange for the release of an American professor and his Australian colleague who were kidnapped two years ago, officials revealed Tuesday. Kevin King, 60, and Timothy Weeks,
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem August 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan police found the bodies of three foreign nationals shot and killed in the capital, Kabul, Thursday afternoon. The three, from India, Malaysia, and Macedonia, were abducted earlier in the day. According to Bahar Mehr, an official with the Ministry of Interior, the three got out of
VOA News May 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded mosque being used as a voter registration center in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 17 worshipers and wounding 33 others The attack came hours after unknown gunmen in a northern Afghan region kidnapped seven engineers, mostly Indian nationals. The mosque bombing occurred
Press TV April 18, 2018 Five people have been abducted when armed men attacked a voter registration center in Afghanistan, and set fire to documents. Officials said Wednesday that the assault was carried out in the central province of Ghor on Tuesday. Provincial police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal Nizami said the gunmen stormed the center in
November 30, 2017 RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says five people were sentenced to death for committing murder and kidnapping and were hanged on November 29. The convicts were executed at Pul-e-Charkhi prison in the capital, Kabul. “A former member of Herat Provincial Council is among the five people,” Najeeb Danesh the acting