Ayaz Gul VOA News November 12, 2019 ISLAMABAD – An airstrike carried out by American forces in eastern Afghanistan has mistakenly killed at least four Afghan soldiers and injured six others. A provincial police spokesman said the overnight incident occurred in the troubled Logar province during clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents. Shahpoor
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 16, 2019 At least seven people have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan while one-third of the country was hit by a blackout. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the police chief of the western Farah Province, said five people, including women and children, were killed when a roadside bomb hit
Tolo News: Following conflicting reports about civilian deaths in Afghan forces operation in the eastern province of Logar, an investigative report by TOLOnews correspondent Sharif Amiri reveals that civilians were harmed as a result of the military a operation by a special unit of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. Click here to read more
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 22, 2019 Afghan officials say a joint air strike by U.S. and Afghan forces has killed at least seven civilians. The incident occurred during a military operation in the Baraki Barak district of the eastern province of Logar on July 21. Hasib Stanekzai, a member of the provincial council, said
1TV: Acting police chief of Baraki Barak district in Afghanistan’s central Logar province was killed by a roadside bomb on Monday, officials said. Saber Khan was killed as he was on his way to inspect police checkpoints, said Shapoor Ahmadzai, a spokesman for provincial police. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the attack was carried out
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 21, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Taliban insurgents launched a major suicide bomb-and-gun attack against a military base in central Afghanistan, killing at least 18 security troops and injuring dozens more. Authorities said the assault took place early Monday morning in Maidan Shahr, the provincial headquarters of Wardak province, about 50 kilometers from
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 22, 2018 A Taliban attack on an Afghan military convoy in the southwestern Badghis Province left four soldiers dead, officials said on November 22. Seven soldiers were also wounded in the Taliban ambush early on November 22, which occurred as the military convoy traveled through the provincial capital of Qalay-e
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 7, 2018 NATO says it is investigating reports that at least nine Afghan police officers were killed in a U.S. air strike during a battle against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi earlier said nine police were killed and 14 wounded in the strike in the
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 30, 2018 An attack on Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry in Kabul has been repelled with one policeman and all of the attackers being killed in the latest in a series of militant attacks in the city. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the first checkpoint of the Afghan Interior Ministry
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 26, 2018 Taliban insurgents have ambushed and killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan’s eastern Logar Province, police say. The attack, which killed Qamar-u-din Shakeb and at least one of his bodyguards, occurred on April 26 in the Mohammad Agha district of the province, police said. “He was on his way