Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 5, 2017 The U.S. military and Afghan authorities are investigating reports of civilian casualties caused by deadly air strikes in northern Afghanistan. The U.S. military said it had launched a probe into what it described as a combined U.S.-Afghan operation in the northern province of Kunduz on November 3 and
Press TV October 29, 2017 The Taliban militants have killed at least 22 Afghan policemen in separate attacks on checkpoints over the weekend across various regions of the war-ravaged country. In the latest blow to the country’s beleaguered security forces, at least 13 officers were killed after militants wearing night-vision goggles launched a pre-dawn assault on a police
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — More than 12,400 Afghan families have been forced to flee their houses due to increased Taliban-led militancy and clashes in northern Kunduz province since early 2017, a provincial official said Saturday. “Up to 12,400 families from remote districts, outskirts of provincial capital Kunduz city and the nearby areas have
VOA News / July 22, 2017 The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has opened an outpatient clinic in northern Afghanistan. The new facility in Kunduz province opened almost two years after a U.S. airstrike demolished the group’s hospital there, killing more than 40 people, including patients and staff members. “We decided to
KABUL, July 18 (Xinhua) — Taliban militants who have lost ground in the northern Kunduz province amid government forces mounting pressure, launched major offensive in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the neighboring Baghlan province on Tuesday to reduce stress on fighters in Kunduz, local observers said. The surprise and multi-pronged attacks which began at 03:00 a.m. local
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 7, 2017 KUNDUZ — Six Afghan civilians have been wounded in a clash between rival local militia factions in the northern province of Kunduz, a government official said. The clash occurred early on July 7 in Kunduz’s Khanabad district, local administrator Hayatullah Amiri said. Afghanistan has numerous militia that are
The Guardian (UK): When Radio Shaista goes silent, you know the Taliban are close. The female-run radio station was looted and wrecked when the group captured Kunduz, Afghanistan’s embattled northern city, in 2015, sending journalists fleeing. Even after the Taliban were routed, female journalists have been on guard, if they ever returned, that is. Zarghoona Hassan,
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 25, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide car bombing and clashes with Taliban insurgents across Afghanistan have killed at least 25 security personnel. The violence comes as the United Nations urges parties to the Afghan conflict to cease hostilities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, beginning this week. Local television
Press TV May 16, 2017 Afghan forces have recaptured a key district in the northern province of Kunduz from the Taliban militant group, which has stepped up its deadly attacks against government and civilian targets in recent weeks. On Tuesday, the National Security Forces (ANSF) regained control of the Qala-e-Zal district, which had fallen to
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 7, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Heavy fighting is raging in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency has overrun several districts since launching its so-called yearly “spring offensive” more than a week ago. The battlefield advances have again brought insurgents close enough to threaten Kunduz, the strategically important city the Taliban had briefly