Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 24, 2016 KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN — A bulldozer was busy clearing up the burnt remains of a shop destroyed during more than a week of fighting. Nearby, a man sold vegetables on a cart amidst heaps of charred bricks. Almost two weeks after the Afghan government, with NATO support, managed to fend
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) — Afghan government recaptured the northern Kunduz city on Wednesday, forcing Taliban militants to retreat to their former bases, a senior police official said. “Taliban rebels after suffering huge casualties and leaving scores of dead bodies behind fled Kunduz city on Wednesday and the whole city is in control of
Press TV October 11, 2016 Afghanistan has sent hundreds of troops to Lashkargah in a bid to purge the strategic city of Taliban militants after an attack by the resurgent group claimed the lives of 14 people. The government’s special envoy for security in Helmand province said more than 300 commandos had been deployed to the city on Tuesday to
Press TV October 10, 2016 Taliban militants have reportedly entered the capital of Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand after launching a large-scale attack in the area. The militants attacked security checkpoints inside the city of Lashkargah on Monday, said the Interior Ministry spokesman, Sediq Sediqq. Sediqq said the country’s security forces “will soon push them
Press TV October 9, 2016 The United Nations says the number of war-displaced civilians in Afghanistan’s Kunduz has reached 24,000 as fierce street battles continue between government forces and Taliban militants in the strategic northern city. “Initial reports indicate that around 24,000 internally displaced persons” have fled Kunduz, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian
1TV: Afghan security forces pushed back Taliban militants from key parts of northern Kunduz after the group’s several top commanders killed in the province. Kunduz police says, the Afghan forces’ Thursday night raid repelled the militants from Police District 1, parts of Khwaja Mashhad, Bandar-e-Kabul, Cinema Square, Sharshara, Nawabad square and Chahardara areas of Kunduz province.
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — Scores of Taliban militants have been killed as fighting for the control of northern Kunduz city entered its fourth day, police spokesman in the northern zone, Mahfozullah Akbari said on Thursday. According to the official, the Taliban militants have taken positions inside residential houses and have been using the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 5, 2016 Residents in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz have fled or face deteriorating conditions as fighting between security forces and Taliban militants there entered its third day. “Most civilians have abandoned Kunduz city and have gone to neighboring districts or provinces,” Kunduz Province’s Governor Asadullah Amarkhel said on
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 4, 2016 Fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants has moved into a second day in the northern city of Kunduz. Taliban fighters launched an assault on Kunduz early on October 3, about a year after briefly capturing the city. Officials said on October 4 that fighting was still
Press TV October 3, 2016 Afghan commandos have repelled a Taliban attack on Kunduz after the terrorists briefly took control of the northern city’s center. “Government controls Kunduz City and Afghan security forces are in control of the main square with additional troops coming,” said NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan on Monday. Afghan special forces