Tolo News: Officials said that a large-scale military operation has been launched in Kunduz and that up to 3,000 militants, including about 200 foreigners, are currently active in the province. They said that militants have expanded their activities to the outskirts of Kunduz city, the center of the province. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Officials from Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) in northern Baghlan province said Thursday insurgents have blown up another pylon and destroyed circuits in Baghlan and Kunduz respectively. This time the power from Tajikistan to Kabul has been disrupted. This comes after the recent blast that targeted a pylon in Dand-e-Shahabuddin in Baghlan. Click here to
AOPNEWS | February 9, 2016 Baghlan: Afghan security forces said today that the Taliban have suffered heavy causalities in Baghlani-e Markazi – 8 insurgents have been reported killed, and a dozen wounded. A military base was also recaptured. One Afghan policeman was reported injured. A resident reported that two children and a woman were wounded
AOPNEWS | February 8, 2016 Badakhshan: Afghan officials say that 5 Pakistani spies who were pretending to be doctors have been arrested. The provincial police chief said that 2 men and a woman were detained in Kisham district, and a woman and a man were arrested in Baharak district. An Afghan pulic health official said
Tolo News: Head of exports department in the Chamber of Commerce and Industries office in Kunduz, Massoud, said the move has affected the interest of businessmen to visit Shir Khan Bandar – one of the main ports that connects Afghanistan with Tajikistan. “This move [closure of Tajikistan consulate in Kunduz] has badly affected businessmen’s activities,” he
AOPNEWS | February 3, 2016 Ghazni: Taliban (Mansur faction) announced today that a landmine they had planted hit an Afghan army tank in the Qarabagh district. They reported that the explosion killed two Afghan government soldiers. Khost: A magnetic bomb explosion left one person wounded in the capital today, according to Afghan officials. Kunduz: Local
Tolo News: The Pentagon is preparing to punish specific members of the U.S special operations forces and others involved in a bungled airstrike on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – or Doctors without Borders – hospital in northern Kunduz province. The airstrike that was carried out in October last year during the Taliban’s siege on Kunduz city –
Tolo News: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that Tajikistan’s embassy in Kabul – through an official letter to the ministry – termed mounting insecurity as the main reason behind the closure of the consulates. “The letter has stressed the move will not have any impact on friendly relations between Kabul and Dushanbe,” the MoFA
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Six people including five militants have been killed as clash flared up in Imam Sahib district of the northern Kunduz province 250 km north of Kabul on Thursday, spokesman for provincial governor Abdul Wasi Basel said. The clash, according to the spokesman, erupted in Alafbirdy area early Thursday and
Khaama Press November 26, 2015 President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has dismissed the provincial Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief along with a number of other high level government officials. President Ghani arrived in Kunduz this morning on a second visit within the past one month to hold talks with the government officials and