VOA News April 13, 2017 The U.S. military says it has dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State underground complex in Afghanistan. A Pentagon statement said a GBU-43 bomb was dropped Thursday on an IS tunnel complex in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province near the border with
Zabihullah Ghazi Noor Zahid VOA News April 10, 2017 NANGARHAR AND WASHINGTON — U.S. and Afghan special forces in eastern Afghanistan have cleared Islamic State fighters from much of a key stronghold IS has occupied since 2015, provincial officials and local residents told VOA. A reporter for VOA’s Afghan service traveled to the remote Achin region
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, March 21 (Xinhua) — Up to 26 militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group had been killed after drones bombed the armed outfit’s hideouts in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, a police spokesman of the province said Tuesday. According to Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal, a total of the 24 IS fighters were
Press TV February 17, 2017 Seventeen Afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists on army security posts in eastern Afghanistan. Ahmad Ali Hazrat, the chief of the provincial council, said on Friday that the attack was carried out in Dih Bala district of Nangarhar province the previous night. Hazrat
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — A total of 16 militants loyal to Islamic State (IS) have been killed and two others injured in the eastern Nangarhar province over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for Nangarhar provincial government said Tuesday. The operations, according to spokesman Attaullah Khogiani, covered some villages in Haska Mina and
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 12, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan troops, backed by American air support, Sunday launched a major offensive against Islamic State, or IS, bases in the eastern Nangarhar province. A regional military spokesman, Shirin Aqa, told reporters in the provincial capital of Jalalabad that security forces have been tasked to clear Kot and
Noor Zahid VOA News February 12, 2017 Afghan provincial officials reported a rise in girls’ enrollment rates across eastern Nangarhar Province, despite constant attacks and threats by Islamic State and other militant groups in the area. “Of the 14,000 graduates last year, we had 3,000 girls. This year, 4,000 girls graduated out of the total
Noor Zahid VOA News February 1, 2017 The smuggling of Afghan minerals supplies millions of dollars to armed groups, insurgents and strongmen in the country, an Afghan anti-corruption watchdog reported Wednesday. The Afghanistan Anti-Corruption Network said in a report that militant groups last year received at least $46 million from minerals and precious stones illegally
Noor Zahid VOA News January 15, 2017 Within hours after the Afghan government said it successfully completed a three-month-long cleanup operation against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in a remote eastern district of the country, IS conducted a series of attacks and kidnappings in other areas. On Sunday, 12 teachers and two staff members
Press TV January 14, 2017 Militants of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have raided a district in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, setting fire to some 60 houses there. Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said people had fled their homes before the Daesh attack in Kot District on Friday, local media reported. There have