Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 30, 2017 Two security guards have been killed in a suicide attack on a lawmaker’s house in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, local officials say. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in the morning of August 30 outside of parliament
Press TV / August 11, 2017 An air raid conducted by foreign forces in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of at least 16 civilians in the eastern province of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan. According to TOLO News, the air raid hit a civilian vehicle in Haska Mina district late on Thursday. Women and children were among
Noor Zahid Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat VOA News July 7, 2017 NANGARHAR, WASHINGTON — In a remote district of eastern Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains, where Osama bin Laden once took refuge, hundreds of local villagers freed from Islamic State control have been enlisted as a militia force to fight the terror group, provincial authorities said. The Afghan National
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 21, 2017 Afghan security forces have recaptured Tora Bora, a former fortress of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, from Islamic State (IS) militants, officials confirmed. IS had taken the tunnel and cave complex in Nangarhar Province from the Taliban five days ago. The two militant groups are enemies. The legendary
VOA News / June 18, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Security forces in eastern Afghanistan have launched search operations to try to locate two Pakistani diplomats who went missing while commuting to Pakistan by road Friday. The diplomats were stationed at the consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan, officials said Sunday.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 17, 2017 At least one Afghan soldier has been killed and seven U.S. service personnel wounded in a so-called insider attack at an Afghan National Army base in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul also said that at least one Afghan soldier was wounded
Tolo News: Abdul Saboor Sabet, the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Nangarhar claimed on Thursday that Pakistani militia fully supported Daesh in their offensive against the Tora Bora region this week in eastern Nangarhar province. In a trip to Nangarhar’s Chaparhar district on Thursday, Sabet said that Pakistani militia are still backing
Michael Hughes: Taliban insider attacks designed to sow distrust between U.S. and Afghan forces are likely to provoke a contrary reaction by strengthening America’s commitment to the war, Brookings Institution scholar Michael O’Hanlon told Afghan Online Press (AOP). On Tuesday, June 13, Defense Secretary James Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States was “not
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News / June 14, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Islamic State militants captured parts of Afghanistan’s Tora Bora region Tuesday night, after days of heavy fighting with Afghan Taliban and pro-government militias. The remote, mountainous area contains a complex set of caves bordering Pakistan. It became well-known because al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden was cornered
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 12, 2017 Three Afghan civilians have been killed by U.S. forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, local officials say. Ghani Khel district chief Abdul Wahab said that U.S. troops opened fire on civilians early on June 12 after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. “They opened fire