KABUL, June 19 (Xinhua) — The unmanned planes have proved deadly weapons in the war on terror in Afghanistan as 31 anti-government armed insurgents including Taliban and fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group have been killed since Saturday, officials said Sunday. In drone strike against Taliban militants, eight Taliban fighters including a group
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, June 9 (Xinhua) — Afghan forces have set free nine abducted passengers from the clutch of Taliban in the northern Kunduz province and the operation goes on to secure the safe release of remaining passengers, an army spokesman in the northern region Nasratullah Jamshidi said Thursday. “So far nine passengers have been released
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem June 8, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan authorities are disputing police reports that insurgents abducted nearly 50 passengers from a bus in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan Wednesday morning. Gen. Mohammad Qaseem Jangalbagh, the Kunduz provincial police chief, said the bus was carrying 47 passengers and security forces managed to rescue a few of
Press TV June 8, 2016 At least 12 civilians have been killed and 50 others abducted in two separate attacks by unknown militants on passengers traveling in eastern and northern Afghanistan. Jawid Salangi, an official in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, said that armed men had stopped two cars, ordered all those on board out
Khaama Press: Former Afghan Intelligence Chief Amrullah Saleh criticized Tawab Ghorzag, the spokesman for the National Security Council for blaming Ata Mohammad for the instability of Kunduz province. He warned to release the 200 classified documents and audio clips prepared by the fact finding team regarding the fall of Kunduz city if Ghorzang did not amend
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem June 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Regional officials in Afghanistan say Taliban abducted at least 17 passengers in the north of the country late Wednesday. Zabiullah Amani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said the passengers, local residents of Balkhab district, were traveling to the capital of Sar-e-Pul province when Taliban kidnapped them. He said local
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials said Tuesday that the Taliban took dozens of people hostage near the northern city of Kunduz. The insurgents apparently set up a check-point in a pre-dawn action on the main road near the provincial capital and stopped buses and vehicles heading to Kunduz from the national
globalpost: It was 2:09 a.m. in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3, 2015, when Lajos Jecs was woken from his sleep by a loud explosion. What he was hearing was the first in a series of bombs a US plane was dropping on the hospital he was working at. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV May 2, 2016 The survivors of a fatal US airstrike on a hospital have called for those responsible to stand trial, dismissing Pentagon’s recent probe that the bombardment did not amount to a war crime. “This report is an absolute insult to the victims of MSF hospital in Kunduz,” said Esmatullah Esmat, who
Press TV May 1, 2016 An American geopolitical commentator says the United Sates is an empire and empires never admit any wrongdoing, they always blame others. Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, after a US military investigation concluded that American forces