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
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