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
VOA News April 17, 2016 Afghan officials and insurgent sources said intense fighting is raging near the northern city of Kunduz. An Interior Ministry statement issued Sunday said Afghan forces killed at least 44 Taliban insurgents and wounded many more in overnight clashes around the provincial capital. The fighting erupted Friday after the Taliban staged
KABUL, April 16 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces have once again thwarted Taliban attempts to capture Kunduz provincial capital Kunduz city, 250 km north of Kabul after inflicting huge casualties to the Taliban fighters, an army spokesman in the northern region Nasratullah Jamshidi said Saturday. According to Jamshidi, 62 Taliban fighters were killed since Friday
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, March 31 (Xinhua) — Six Taliban militants including a group commander were killed outside Kunduz provincial capital on Thursday, army spokesman in the province Nasrullah Jamshidi said. “The operations which covered some villages including Serahi Hajji Alam in the outskirt of Kunduz city claimed the lives of six Taliban rebels including a group
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 22, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The new commander of the U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologized to residents of Kunduz for a U.S. airstrike on a hospital that killed 42 people. U.S. Army General John Nicholson met in Kunduz with representatives of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders and family members of the
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, March 19 (Xinhua) — Two Bangladeshi nationals have gone missing in the northern Kunduz province with Kunduz city as its capital, 250 km north of Kabul, provincial government spokesman, Abdul Wasi Basil said Saturday. “Two nationals of Bangladesh along with an Afghan colleague and their driver were on their way from Kunduz to