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
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Fighting erupted in northern Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents staged a pre-dawn coordinated offensive on the strategically important city of Kunduz, which they briefly overran a year ago. Local officials say the Islamist insurgency assaulted the provincial capital from four directions and fought their way into the city.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 27, 2016 At least 12 Afghan Army soldiers have been killed in their sleep in an attack allegedly facilitated by fellow soldiers with suspected links to the Taliban. A senior police official in the northern city of Kunduz said on September 27 that two soldiers fled an outpost in the
Press TV September 7, 2016 The capital of Afghanistan’s central province of Uruzgan is on the brink of falling into militants’ hands in the wake of an advance by Taliban, who have taken position within a few kilometers of the city. Abdul Karim, the head of Uruzgan provincial council, on Wednesday warned of the collapse of
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber in a police uniform detonated his device near the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Monday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 90 others. Afghanistan’s Tolo TV reported that the ministry’s senior commander, General Abdul Raziq, along with the intelligence chief for
VOA News Ayaz Gul September 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban is urging India to stop giving lethal military equipment to the Afghan government, condemning it as a “clear hostility” towards the war-torn nation. In its first public reaction to New Delhi’s growing military cooperation with Kabul, the Islamist insurgency alleged Indian aircraft and equipment are